We in the anti-racism coalition should reject the faction that emphasizes policing discourse, identifying villains, and punishing individuals for violating elite politeness norms, and instead champion structural changes that help people.
Examples:
Examples:
A software bug is keeping people in prison for longer than they ought to be there. But it has gotten very little attention because there's no one in particular to pillory as a Bad Person. kjzz.org/content/166098…
This paper persuasively shows a kind of structural racism in jury selection and proposes a remedy that would be very easy to implement nber.org/papers/w28572 But it too has gotten very little attention
Meanwhile, lead abatement, occupational licensing, density restrictions, and drone strikes are all still areas where big gains could be made to reduce ills that disproportionately harm people of color
These examples and many others are underemphasized, even though they bear on the antiracist project so many purport to center, because lots of educated elites seem to believe what they ought to be doing in the name of social justice are call-outs or *doing the work* by which
they mean a never-ending project of psychologically tinged self-examination. I don't know if the big driver of this is broken status incentives or bad ideas or what but the status quo isn't serving anyone well.
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