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New York Is Using Race to Determine Access to Covid Treatments
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Re: New York Is Using Race to Determine Access to Covid Treatments
#22Yeah the right in the US has always preferred to pretend like racism is an abstract idea rather than an embodied institution, and that the civil rights acts of 1866 and 1964 didn't happen-- or if they did, that disparate impact isn't a doctrine and that reverse racism is a thing. The facts contradicting this position are self evident to everybody living in the United States, but feigning ignorance is a very popular p…
>Yeah the right in the US has always preferred to pretend like racism is an abstract idea Seeing how this is NY where the left had control and has had control for quite sometime, maybe they should try to actually fix it. >that reverse racism is a thing. Nobody believes reverse racism is a thing. There is only racism. >How about this: maybe we /should/ treat unvaxed minorities before unvaxed whites Seems like that wou…
Democrats aren't the "left" by any stretch, the two parties are both wings of the same bird and it's amazing to see people pretend otherwise. They have the same corporate donors and belong to the same class. You have a center right corporate technocracy party and a far right blood and soil party. That's the best your "representative" (no universal suffrage until ~50 years ago when native women were allowed) democracy can offer as choices: slow violence or faster violence.
If you think people can meaningfully be racist against white people in America, let's put aside the semantic nonsense and get into the difference between discrimination (something anyone can experience) like "haha crackers can't dance" and racism, such as being 3.64x more likely to be arrested for drug possession despite nearly identical usage rates (and being a minority of the population).
Black and brown communities /are/ more vulnerable to COVID. Because the US is still de facto segregated, including in the "left" cities. We live in the consequence of redlining, and it's why "minority neighborhoods" have incredibly underfunded hospitals. Not to mention the very recent (one could argue still continuing) medical experimentation on minorities, like the Tuskegee Syphilis study, and maybe that would lead one to empathize with a hesitation to trust this country's medical institutions.
Re: New York Is Using Race to Determine Access to Covid Treatments
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Race correlates to both lower and higher vaccination rates. Asians (which isn't actually even a race) correlates to higher vaccination rates.
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...
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Race correlates to both higher and lower obesity.
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html
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An argument is not a strawman argument if it is true. Greenwald did not say that a majority of liberals want to turn unvaccinated people from care. Trying to associate that argument with him would be a strawman argument.
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#26Is this Critical Race Theory?
Re: New York Is Using Race to Determine Access to Covid Treatments
#27https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi... They are using race to preferentially treat higher risk groups of people. Sounds like the way you should treat people - higher risk first. Very click bait title.
Government shouldn't be making decisions based on race, period, full stop. Anything relevant to health should be decided by doctors, outside the purview of politicians and bureacrats.
Re: New York Is Using Race to Determine Access to Covid Treatments
#28Yeah the right in the US has always preferred to pretend like racism is an abstract idea rather than an embodied institution, and that the civil rights acts of 1866 and 1964 didn't happen-- or if they did, that disparate impact isn't a doctrine and that reverse racism is a thing. The facts contradicting this position are self evident to everybody living in the United States, but feigning ignorance is a very popular p…
You have a tiktok view of history. The Democrat south tried to block the civil rights act. How about we vax by age groups not race.
> The Democrat south tried to block the civil rights act.
You do know that the racist southern White Democrats generally switched parties in the years following Johnson’s support of the Civil Rights Act and the Republican Southern Strategy which focused on appealing to those disaffected racists the way the Republican failed to the last time they got upset with a Democrat supporting civil rights in the 1940s, right?
There’s a reason its not the Democrats waving Confederate battle flags around and having their presidential candidates endorsed by the KKK any more.
Re: New York Is Using Race to Determine Access to Covid Treatments
#29Is this Critical Race Theory?
No, Critical Race Theory is when you assign collective blame to a group of people based on the color of their skin. Think of how the Stormfront crowd will blame all black people for violent crime, rather than just the specific individuals committing the crimes. It's like that, but for white people. Collectivized guilt, with prescriptive policies using racial discrimination as an antidote.
Probably the most noted proponent of CRT is Ibram X. Kendi, who famously noted: "The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination."