>"Now what if the black person figures out that if he lived in a tier 3 neighborhood, he'd only need 30 hours a week?"
Do you really think black people go through such mental calculations like that, when deciding what to spend their time on next? Do you, whatever race you are?
You and Russ are presuming that you have any idea what thoughts and mental calculus goes through a black person's mind when they decide when and how hard to work on what, and that you could even know or deduce it without asking, and that it's the same for all black people, and that there's a difference between how black and white people think, which rules and formula they use, and which numbers they plug into them.
Don't you see how condescending it is for a white man (or anyone) to lecture black people (or anyone) about how they think and why they behave, presuming to know better about the cause of their problems, explicitly calling them lazy as a class, acting like he's doing them a favor by justifying their laziness? That level of patronizing, smug, self righteous condescension directed at black people as a class is racist.
He's backward chaining from his racist foregone conclusion that "blacks are lazy" to a bunch of made-up speculation he pulled out of his ass about how "black people" think and what motivates their behavior, which he can't possibly know.
He purposefully led with as offensive a title as possible just to get attention, and then he tried to demonstrate how clever he is to be able to logically argue himself out of the huge hole he just dug with the click bait blog post title "Blacks are Lazy". And it's not just that his arguments are "badly written", it's also that his assumptions and logic are deeply flawed.
My theory: Russ was just inexpertly trying to ape Eric Raymond's favorite rhetorical tactic, and he failed miserably. But Eric was flattered, and stuck up for him.
“Personally, I wanted to fight this on principle,” Raymond said. “Russ resigned the presidency rather than get OSI into that fight, and the board quite properly respected his wishes in the matter. That sacrifice makes me angrier at the fools and thugs who pulled him down.”
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