Thread by @conservmillen

@DavidAFrench You make a lot of good points here, & I can’t speak to the Platt situation, because I don’t know enough about it yet, but a few ways I’d push back on what you write here:

- Disparities don’t automatically = discrimination.

@DavidAFrench If they do, then is discrimination also to blame for an Asian median income that’s higher than whites’? You only compare white vs. black income here & conclude it’s because of past structural racism. Maybe it is, or maybe it’s much more complex.

- America isn’t Israel.

@DavidAFrench I see a lot of right-wingers compare America to Israel, God’s chosen nation. They’re accused of “Christian nationalism” for doing so, & I agree it’s theologically flawed. But I see mods & leftist Christians do the same, but to support their call to modern repentance for past sins

@DavidAFrench That’s what you do here. You use examples of Israelites asking for mercy for their ancestors’ sins, but 1) they were their actual ancestors, not just people who lived in the same place as them at one point or who shared their skin color, & 2) the sins, I think, were still active.

@DavidAFrench While I agree with the obligation of a nation to right past wrongs, I 1) don’t see Biblical support for melanin-based repentance & 2) don’t think equal outcomes = justice (and I don’t think you do either, but that’s what the disparities = discrimination argument implies).

@DavidAFrench CRT’s premise, that America has always been systemically racist, asserts that modern disparities between white & black Americans is bc of structures in place. While that may be true in some cases, it’s not a given. If you haven’t read Sowell’s Discrimination & Disparities, do!