It wouldn’t have mattered tons of people made similar points last night and in the original struggle sesh. He’s demonstrated he has somewhat of an understanding of the structural issue he just can’t drop the reactionary “well if someone’s mean to le-pol-face that’s racism” argument.
I think he’s feeling a lot of cognitive dissonance here and is just doubling down, the only thing that can get him over it is himself doing the heavy lifting of unpacking it. I hope he does.
It wouldn’t have mattered tons of people made similar points last night and in the original struggle sesh. He’s demonstrated he has somewhat of an understanding of the structural issue he just can’t drop the reactionary “well if someone’s mean to le-pol-face that’s racism” argument.
I think he’s feeling a lot of cognitive dissonance here and is just doubling down, the only thing that can get him over it is himself doing the heavy lifting of unpacking it. I hope he does.
Well, good on you for trying, and I'm glad I didn't waste a bunch of time and end up even more tired this morning lol
I should have had your intuition lol luckily I’m off today