NY State provides COVID antiviral therapies for 'people of colour' way ahead of 'white people'.
I fully accept that there's a strong component of social justice, in that some people of colour have less access to healthcare - the problem is it's very crude and unfair policy, and there are many (perhaps just as many in aggregate) 'white people' who have had limited access to healthcare. Notably they have been poor since the dawn of time, their ancestors 'serfs' for thousands of years, and now they are directly and actively discriminated against by their governments.
A 8-question form about 'health history and health coverage' would probably provide a really good - and fair - basis for access to antivirals, that would get those with 'historical limited access' they help they need. No doubt, people of colour would be more likely as a result of those questions to get treatment, but others would as well. That would be 'actual social justice'.
Cynically, a 'more fair policy' would not allow government officials to tout their specific reforms and programs targeting minorities to placate loud voices, and to tout their 'social justice credibility'.
This is one small example, there are many.
Not only that, casual crude bigotry against whites has become fundamentally acceptable.
There were 4 major publications including Forbes (unexpected) and the Guardian (expected) that lamented 'Will Smith's Slap' was really a problem of 'White Supremacy' - effectively indicting 'Whiteness' as the cause of all of this malaise.
This is ridiculous, anti-intellectual post-modern rubbish. Total bigotry - published in 'respectable' outlets, being passed of ass legitimate - and it's almost a daily occurrence.
'Classical' systematic (and even institutional racism) against people of colour obviously exists, but there is also obviously a war going on with cheating and 'Magical Bigoted Thinking' around every corner.
It's very obvious that some 'talking heads' seeking validation, fame, clicks and relevance make poor arguments in the name of something.
Since at least parts of the Left have gone 'post modern bullshit race war', by blaming literally everything including 'Oscar Slaps' on 'White Supremacy' - it's hard for anyone to keep up and stay on top of the clicks. Jon Stewart has to up his own 'magical thinking' in order to stir the pot.
The same thing can be seen on the 'other side' as Tucker Carlson has entered a bizarre 'Twilight Zone Reality' with his recent conspiratorial and insane rants about Putin's justification for war in Ukraine.
If you were to have shown 2022 Pro-Putin Tucker Carlson, and he Guardian rant faulting 'White Supremacy' for 'Will Smiths Oscar Slap', or any of Trump's Tweets to anyone from 2010 - nobody would have believed it'd be real.
Commercialized press, need for substack subs, huge pressure for ratings, etc pushes the system 'outward' in terms of opinions and makes the system toxic.
So try to contextualize almost everything in that whirlwind.
Take Europe: they have even more extreme political dialogue (they have actual Nazis there, not fake American ones, and they have actual Communist parties in almost every country, that get votes!) - but their population is not caught up in pop-culture wars, particularly about race. Admittedly, without a history of slavery in the same way that America has, it's going to be less sensitive. But they are far less nuts about most of these issues, at least on the Continent.
It's absurd not to be at least fairly cynical about the words of talking heads of any kind in the US these days, and any institution with a public facing element.
They are all subject to it. Take your 'favourite person' - and watch them fall into the cracks as they have to put up content incessantly, have a guest or opinion on a daily basis, that gets them the attention. That is a systematic problem inflaming all others.
I thought this was hyperbole, but you were not kidding!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/29/white-...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maiahoskin/2022/03/28/while-wer...
This is absolutely asinine!
Those are academic, rhetorical arguments that belong on campus, not in the commons as acceptable viewpoints.
What's sinister about such writing is that it appeals directly to the inner bigotry of those reading it, for the same reasons that Trump's 'ugly Tweets' do, though the writers have the intelligence to grasp that, they refuse to have the self awareness to concede that reality.
It's just mostly unfounded bigotry, that appeals to the 'Inner Orc' in everyone.
They (meaning everyone) usually get away with it because of the 'kernel of truth' i.e 'white people' do disproportionately have power, or, 'illegal aliens are technically more likely to be involved in certain kinds of crime', which becomes more apparent if it was on the 'evening news' etc..
It's like Tucker Carlson's rehashing of Putin's cries about 'NATO expansion' - that's a 'kernel of truth' that covers the other, clear and obvious motivations for war which are purely Imperialist. Though 'NATO expansion' is not an appeal to bigotry at least, paradoxically, Putin's more broad indications are: Ukranians are not really a people, and they are 'little Russians' to be subject to rule by Russians.