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Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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.”
Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Seth Lazar • War (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
percent and 2 percent, respectively.11 Then there are the moral issues that arise. Racial profiling by police is an obvious example. Defenders of the practice claim that this is more efficient, but even if it were, it makes life worse for the people who are profiled, the vast majority of whom are innocent of any crime. I’m framing the issue here in
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