Demonstrations In New York Make Several Things Clear

[The Magistrate]

174. None Of This Refutes A Thing Stated Above

You don't like the facts, so you try and wrap them in something you're more comfortable with.

The only new element in it is an invitation to discuss the long history of the matter, which I decline. I see no reason to suspect you know much about the world in which the matter is rooted, and doubt you could sit still for the education.

I would invite you to consider this. I doubt anyone here questions the fact of systemic racism, that several centuries of not just believing anyone not white is a lesser being, but putting in some hard work to make it so in social rank, has some effect on the present. I doubt any would argue against the proposition that these 'habits' of our society operate to produce disparate outcomes, quite independent of the personal views on race of particular individuals deciding such things as who to lend to, or hire, or give a break to in court.

Hate and loathing for Jews has been at the root of Christendom and the West just a couple of decades shy of two millennia. The claim of exploitative superiority over people of color has been a feature of Christendom and the West for no more than a quarter of that stretch of time. For far longer, in Christendom and the West, killing Jews was viewed as an enjoyable duty, to be turned to for relief in times of stress. There's not much difference between Europe's reaction to the fourteenth century's Great Mortality and what Germans, aided mightily by several central European peoples, did in the wake of calamitous defeat in the twentieth century's Great War, and that difference is merely the general advance of industry and organization.

Old habits die hard....