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Jan 26Liked by Free Black Thought

My wild ride through these words kept me spinning when I hit upon:

"Race is never specific enough. That is the failure of racism, of all racial ideologies and racial theories. It doesn’t fit. Yet for perverse incentives in crooked markets, we find racialization profitable. Most of us recognize that it is morally dubious. I believe it is unsustainable. That is why I am on the verge of being a non-racial absolutist." Hmm. If I could sing, which I can't, I would riff on "non-racial absolutist." And yes to the six principles.

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Beautifully written and expressed and communicated and humanized. Tha was something special, thank you.

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Jan 26·edited Jan 26Liked by Free Black Thought

Hold up, can we talk about this dislike of Guru?!?! As the kids say, that has me "shook!" [insert laughing emoji]

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Jan 26Liked by Free Black Thought

I sincerely thank you for this.

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Every time I read Michael's work, I think to myself "I cannot believe how fucking cool this guy is, or how sharp, or how on point."

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This just made my day. I will share this with friends and they will simply ignore it and just say I'm being racist...LoL

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Beautiful and brilliant! Pushed me over the edge such that I finally got off my ass and became a paid subscriber. This article and Erec's recent interview on Meghan Daum's The Unspeakable podcast pushed me. Well done, gentlemen.

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Yes. Exactly. “The most difficult part about race to get around is that people tend to assume that their race owns a culture.”

Can’t we call this what it is: Racism? When you Judge others and deduce everything meaningful about them based on their skin pigmentation, isn’t that the definition of racism? It may be popular right now in the culture as a whole. It may be well-intentioned. But can’t we name it honestly?

^^^

Michael Mohr

‘Sincere American Writing’

https://michaelmohr.substack.com/

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Amen, my human brother.

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What do you mean by "Kobe’s Distance?"

I searched Bing: this source was the only one visible out of umpteen million "results;" searched Google: no results; then DuckDuckGo: one result, this one.

I went on Yandex and almost all the first page was the Japanese city of Kobe's distance from various places and its exact co-ordinates, perhaps ominously. Like Google this essay weren't found.

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