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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 9, 2024

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Are there truly people in the US, who aren't senile, who live in or near a black area that's not say, purely military, who think the black community is basically doing okay and there are no problems with it?

That is, they full believe the entertainment media image of blacks as just a reskin of white liberals or something along those lines ?

My town is 25% black and you'd think the black community is doing just fine if you went by it. But you only have to look one town over to see problems.

You're thinking in an entirely different moral and historical reference frame, probably closer to what Nietzsche called "master morality" and further from what he called "slave morality". The poverty and criminality of the black community just makes it more sympathetic for someone who sees them as victims of Democrat policies designed to keep them as an underclass. I'm guessing you'd agree with "Democrats are the real racists" Republicans that Democrats are encouraging blacks to commit crimes - but they'd think of that as an anti-black policy while you'd think of it as an anti-white one.

They understand that blacks generally act and live differently than whites do. Their noticing this does not lead them to an HBD position.

The poverty and criminality of the black community just makes it more sympathetic for someone who sees them as victims of Democrat policies designed to keep them as an underclass

You mean they believe the lack of policing and the lax standards the democrats are okay with are designed to keep them poor and clients and are harming the black communities, and that they believe a higher amount of paternalism would make the situation better ?

I don't necessarily disagree with that, but the amount of control and cultural change needed is rather higher than they'd likely think is needed.

You mean they believe the lack of policing and the lax standards the democrats are okay with are designed to keep them poor and clients and are harming the black communities

Yes

and that they believe a higher amount of paternalism would make the situation better ?

No, they generally believe that it's mostly welfare's fault that the poor black community is screwed up. The standard narrative is that blacks were doing well and making their way up in society before LBJ's Great Society ruined them by trapping them on the dole. So the general solution is to get rid of the dole; when they have to work for a living they'll actually have an incentive towards virtue.

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