The first one he wasn’t calling black people animals. He was calling woke activists animals.
Which, you know, not great. But very very different from calling black people animals.
The second one is him saying that if we were to genuinely reduce crime, it would involve increasing policing of black people, which he thinks would be politically infeasible given the current climate.
This seems like the sort of thing where reasonable people could disagree. Like, does policing and surveillance actually reduce crime? Are black people disproportionately likely to commit crimes or is that over-reporting due to racism?
If somebody said the exact same thing but said it about men in general (who do commit more violent crime) I don’t think most people would call that sexist and vile.
I think this is not true, at least not in my view. Dehumanising people is really bad, (mostly) independent of which group you’re dehumanising. I think that’s an extremely good social norm to have, and it should be costly to break.
(You seem to argue this specific point a lot, which repeatedly gets downvoted. I thought I’d explain my perspective on why I think that’s the case. I don’t believe your counterpoint works well. “Not great“ is also a serious euphemism for dehumanisation.)
The first one he wasn’t calling black people animals. He was calling woke activists animals.
Which, you know, not great. But very very different from calling black people animals.
The second one is him saying that if we were to genuinely reduce crime, it would involve increasing policing of black people, which he thinks would be politically infeasible given the current climate.
This seems like the sort of thing where reasonable people could disagree. Like, does policing and surveillance actually reduce crime? Are black people disproportionately likely to commit crimes or is that over-reporting due to racism?
If somebody said the exact same thing but said it about men in general (who do commit more violent crime) I don’t think most people would call that sexist and vile.
“But very very different“.
I think this is not true, at least not in my view. Dehumanising people is really bad, (mostly) independent of which group you’re dehumanising. I think that’s an extremely good social norm to have, and it should be costly to break.
(You seem to argue this specific point a lot, which repeatedly gets downvoted. I thought I’d explain my perspective on why I think that’s the case. I don’t believe your counterpoint works well. “Not great“ is also a serious euphemism for dehumanisation.)