It seems it's quite possible for members of the dominant group to reap benefits from a system that benefits them, while members of the oppressed group experience abuse. No schizophrenia needed to explain this.
Yes? I mean, the US civil rights movement originated how many generations ago? Do you actually believe these issues and all those factors vanished in thin air once the leaders of those civic movements were assassinated?
It's simply not possible to come up with any remotely rational argument about these deep social problems plaguing the US that involves any type of denialism.
This statement is a non-sequitur to the current discussion.
> It's simply not possible to come up with any remotely rational argument about these deep social problems plaguing the US that involves any type of denialism.
This statement is a non-sequitur both to the current discussion and to your previous sentence.
What would be nice is some kind of self-aware synthesis of these views, one that isn't based on therapeutic expressions but actual analysis. For example, recognizing that opening the labor force to women and more immigration increased labor supply and drove down wages. Opening up international capital flows opened the doors to outsourcing and deindustrialization. Pitting the various ethnic groups in the U.S. against each other and promoting multi-culturalism has likewise resulted in an erosion of solidarity and thus an increase defecting on the social compact. I can respect people saying that on balance they think things are better today or worse today as long as there is some argument to back that up that takes the relevant tradeoffs into account. But there is unfortunately very little of that type of analysis on offer in these types of articles.