Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectual society

Re:Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectua... by farmaway on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @07:26PM (#34813135)

It's not an exaggeration. My city government has funded a "Black Excellence Center" which will use public funds to build a racially-exclusive art gallery/business incubator/cultural space for black people, who represent ~6% of my city's population and are not excluded from any of the similar places which already exist:

https://www.theblackcenter.org/

This is blatantly unconstitutional, but no one has challenged it in court and no one will. Other examples abound, such as racial discrimination in Ivy League admissions (now challenged in court, but for its impact on Asians mainly) and observed differences across race in admitted med students' MCAT scores.

Teddy Roosevelt once said that, "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism" and, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities." Well, here we are. Separate schools, separate standards, separate funding, separate public investment, except for the one largest demographic group... all driving my country into further conflict and disunity.

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Re:Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectua... by s1artibartfast on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @08:17PM (#34813625)

I take your point. I thought you were speaking about "the law' in general, and not specifically commenting equal opportunity laws

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Re:Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectua... by garbagecoder on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:18AM (#34820669)

Not saying what you're saying is wrong, but there are lawsuits every day for discriminating against what people think are the majority in employment and housing. I'm not sure why my post was downvoted for pointing out a fact about the law and that most people don't realize it.

But you're doubling down not just on that people aren't aware of it but that it's a dead letter. That's wrong. You're confusing the government's spending power with discrimination in employment.

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Re:Speech is violence? Not if we want a liberal, intellectua... by aklemm on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:42AM (#34821067)

This particular type of grievance is only possible when you fail or refuse to comprehend the long, brutal, and massive privilege that “one largest demographic” took for itself for centuries. “Separate schools, separate standards, separate funding, separate public investment” indeed.

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