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The judges, however, wisely rejected that argument, quoting Thurgood Marshall's observation that given the mysteries of human motivation, “it would be unwise to presume as a matter of law that human beings of one definable group will not discriminate against other members of their group.”

WHITE PEOPLE HAVE their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the melting pot–ter, the mass incarcerator and the mass developer, the Blue Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter, the not-racist natio

From this vantage point, verificationism began to seem less like a technical stance about which sentences make sense and more like an ethical stance about what we owe to each other: which includes explanations, rather than mystifications of the commitments of others wrapped up in unevaluable language. That commitment that could well start by explai