Displaying love and kindness to the very people that hate your existence and will kill you if given the chance

I’m not talking about onus or responsibility. I’m talking about a solution. It isn’t a “fair” solution, but racism is already unfair. There’s no reason a victim should be expected to do the things necessary to end racism. But unfortunately, they’re in a position to do it.

I watched all four hours of the Russian Doll this weekend. I couldn’t stop. It was incredibly well written. I was amazed at how well done it was and how it sucked me into caring about the main character(s). I don’t know if they can reproduce it in a second season, but Season 1 will always exist, and that alone is…

Correct. There is no fair solution. The only solution anyone has offered up places more burden on the victims. That is in no way fair. But if it turns out to be the only workable solution, what will people do?

I’m not sure you’re being honest there. It obviously mattered enough to you that you replied four or five times.

Yes. It’s anecdotal. Out of all the Root articles that do nothing but point out more reasons to dislike racism (as if we needed any more), it’s published ONE article that claims to have a solution. I can only imagine what they might uncover if they investigated that idea and provided more evidence.

I don’t think that. I think that black people will have to go further beyond their responsibility if they want to end racism. If they don’t want to do that, then the racism will likely continue. Again, it’s not a fair deal, but no one has offered up another workable solution.

You’re right. In the thousands of Root articles that amount to nothing more than, “hey, you should be angry about this” there’s one article that claims to have a workable solution. The Root would need to investigate this idea a little more before a viable pattern about it could emerge. [Fingers crossed]

I agree that it’s not just about personal forgiveness. It also involves communicating that forgiveness to them, and doing it in a way that allows a human connection to be made. Doing that is the only way to end racism that anyone has offered up that has ever worked. Again, it’s a shit deal for the oppressed, but it…

The subject of that other Root article was about an actual, successful way of ending racism from the perspective of someone who lived it. If you’re looking for a way to end racism, there’s the only successful answer this site has ever offered up.

I get that. Good luck repeating the past then.

No. He’s talking about the same thing this Root article talked about. The only way to break the cycle of hate is for the oppressed to forgive the oppressors. It’s a shit deal, but it is THE only way that has worked: https://www.theroot.com/breaking-hate-what-a-former-white-supremacist-says-wil-1828289361

When has this ever worked?

Maybe. But we’d need to interview them just to be sure.

Eeyore has an internet connection?

I thought the headline was, “linked to risk of EVERY death.”

You say that, and yet think of how much fun that must be.

How is it hateful to say homosexuality is against God’s law? That’s not hate. It’s a presentation of how a certain religious law views a certain topic. If you said eating pork is against Jewish law, you aren’t being hateful. You’re being accurate.

It’s not the existence of genitalia that’s the scandal. It’s that strangers get to view something they value of yours without your permission. The only ways for that to ever NOT be scandalous would either be for you to have nothing a stranger values, or to always give permission.

I usually end up running 2 races a year with a dude I went to college with. Every time the weather sucks before I practice, I remind myself how fast that guy is.