So I made the mistake of discussing race as a issue on twitter...yeah. But one thing i took away from it was how convenient it is to gain value by looking down on situations that we are no longer a part of and taking the moral high ground over the dead. The whole process was fascinating because the primary discussion was over one thing i might be wrong on, can you judge every one based off of them being born into a system that encourages evil? The woman i sent the messages to said something along the lines of no confederate slave owners were good people. i don't even disagree with this so much as am fascinated by the lack of congruence in implicating one group of people you disagree with in the past and trying to make people who were born in the same state carry the sins of their for-fathers. When you could easily state their were no good husbands at the time because women were not allowed to vote. or for that matter casting the modern enlightened liberal that champions social justice as a primary platform as the same thing as what the union did is the equivalent of trying to argue that Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter is a historically accurate movie. while the main anxiety seems to stem from something more along the lines of politics as usual. The idea that their is a us and a them. that we need to follow the party lines of our social group while to impose that belief system on anyone we don't know for the satisfying animal gratification of being the relative alpha to the relative beta.
Now the more important question: does saying something that goes against you social groups values mean that by playing the devils advocate mean that it is required that we need a exorcist. or can their be a understanding that no matter how terrible what happened to the man in the picture below is, the thing we need to think about is not making someone hang for being born to a group of people that by the color of their skin you say is responsible for putting those scars on his back, but that racial identities are what led to those scars and are the only thing keeping them alive. again just to clarify i would like to live within a post racial society but the longer I'm alive the more apparent it becomes that identity is the problem because it leads to pride and pride leads to a since of superiority and well that is just the foundation of racism. we live in a society that you can buy a shirt made by some person in a sweat shop at your local retailer. But if you want to something about it your a terrorist...so by default we have reached the age of proxy social warfare. where we wait for the bubble to burst so that later generations will look back on us and say "how could those assholes stand by and let that genocide happen? how could their idealized society rely so much sweatshop labor and oil (one ruining lives the other possibly ending all of them.) And the answer for ounce is simple, because it was convenient. And the down side of social media is that it encourages that convenience.
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