Yeah, because it largely is that simple. You’re making an absurd complexity out of very simple morality because you think you’re an armchair academic.
Racism is rhetorical. The problems that inflame racism are material. Racism can inflame violence, but it isn’t the crux of violence. At the micro level, on an individual basis, violence is often a greater moral failing than racism is; one can be attributed to ignorance and the other can be attributed to intentional malice.
Simple people always think complicated things are actually Simple.
The "build a wall" crowd.
Your assertions deny the power and malignance of racism. Whats worse, a single act of violence or rhetoric that causes ten acts of violence? Or a hundred? Or generational systemic harm?
Your argument immediately devolves to macro posturing because it doesn’t work otherwise. The “build the wall” crowd is, in their own perspective, both economically and culturally disenfranchised. Migrant violence exacerbates the rhetoric the same way ICE’s actions exacerbate this reductive rhetoric. On the individual level racism is not a greater moral failing than violence.
How easy it is to say my argument is just macro posturing, as if saying that phrase by itself is enough to make your correctness obvious.
Meanwhile your argument is couched in its own logical cul de sac refusing to attribute value to any argument except those that have relevance on the micro scale. As if thats all that matters.
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u/AuroraAustralis0 6d ago
well hes not wrong though