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"oversensitivity over race"?

To be clear, this isn't a difference of culture we're talking about. We're talking about people who routinely get murdered and harassed by police, disenfranchised, paid less ins salary, and excluded from many professional roles by default.




> We're talking about people who routinely get murdered and harassed by police, disenfranchised, paid less ins salary, and excluded from many professional roles by default.

You're of course right that the criminal justice system treats minorities very badly, and that many people are unfairly disenfranchised and excluded from many professional roles due to their past interactions with this problematic system. But that has nothing to do with a claim that our society itself is irredeemably racist, or that everyone is irredeemably racist.


Why add the word "irredeemably?"


In diversity trainings I've received over the past few years, it's been emphasized that the racism of society necessarily causes me to personally be racist. No amount of awareness, care, or action on my part will erase the racial bias which (the trainings say) is embedded deep within me; the only course of action is to continually struggle against it.


Does woke religion offer a path to redemption?




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