America’s Poisonous Obsession with Race
Hoo boy. Here&#x27;s what that reads like to me: &quot;Let&#x27;s pretend that George Floyd wasn&#x27;t murdered on account of his race, and black Americans don&#x27;t have anything to worry about, so really this is all their fault.&quot;<p>America is &quot;obsessed with race&quot; because racism is still a problem, and telling the people who are the targets to ignore those problems is just... awful. It does take until the second-to-last paragraph to Godwin itself. &quot;Who are the real Nazis: the ones who are killing people on account of their race, or the ones who call them out about it? Cuz that&#x27;s also racist.&quot;<p>There are tons of problems with the way race is talked about in America. But there&#x27;s certainly nothing to be gained from the contribution of the white guy going &quot;Hey, I read a bunch of newspapers and I just don&#x27;t see the problem. You&#x27;re just making it up.&quot; People are going to keep being loud about it as long as all of the genuine problems are swept under the rug like that, without even a pretense of looking at them.