> Obviously Makinde's experience with the CEO is outrageous and abhorrent but race-related issues go very much beyond his personal negative experiences.
His personal experiences are what make the post concrete and therefore substantive. No one doubts that "race-related issues go very much beyond", but when you take a thread like this immediately into that "very much beyond", all you do is turn it into an ideological food fight.
Part of the art of thoughtful discussion is sticking to areas that one can actually say something substantive about. It's not impossible to make a more general comment on a post like this without pulling the discussion into pre-existing opinion and pre-existing emotion. But it's hard, and your comments aren't those of someone who's trying. Indeed, buzzwords like "identity politics and oppression olympics" are a sign that you're here for an ideological flamewar. That's not what this site is for.
His personal experiences are what make the post concrete and therefore substantive. No one doubts that "race-related issues go very much beyond", but when you take a thread like this immediately into that "very much beyond", all you do is turn it into an ideological food fight.
Part of the art of thoughtful discussion is sticking to areas that one can actually say something substantive about. It's not impossible to make a more general comment on a post like this without pulling the discussion into pre-existing opinion and pre-existing emotion. But it's hard, and your comments aren't those of someone who's trying. Indeed, buzzwords like "identity politics and oppression olympics" are a sign that you're here for an ideological flamewar. That's not what this site is for.