Comment Re:You mean Martin Luther King's outlook (Score 1) 80
That was MLK's ideal, but he was explicit that it was not reality - that was the "I have a dream" speech, after all. The rest of that speech was very detailed about how far we were from that ideal. We are still very far from that ideal.
Uh yeah, that's why there was a civil rights movement and legislation, in the 1960s. The fact remains that his outlook is what decades of school children were taught and overwhelmingly accepted.
The president is making open racial slurs against Somali-Americans.
Well, the criminal ones. Kind of like talking shit about the mafia, it's not really referring to the average Italian. Neither is Trump referring to the average honest hard working Somali.
Hegseth is firing generals because they are black.
BS. He's firing officers that prioritized politics over combat readiness. The US military remains one of the greatest examples of color blindness and meritocracy.
Miller has unleashed mass deportations against immigrants who are not white.
BS. He unleashes such against illegal aliens. That they are non-white is just the typical demographic of that population.
But here on Slashdot, the most frequent whines about racism have been in response to people noting that the makeup of the Artemis II crew is unique, despite that the fact that it is unique and ground-breaking.
And my complaint was not about someone noting the uniqueness but doing so in a politicized comment implying DEI. Which is an unfortunate consequence on this misplaced focus on race. We don't have that uniqueness because of far left democratic calls for representation, we have that uniqueness because of Dr King's principles of being color blind. The natural result of such color blindness is a person with three STEM masters degrees and a career in Naval Aviation as a pilot has a shot a becoming an astronaut through his actions, not his race.