Tent Encampment Measure Passes, But Implementation Remains Unclear

Oh, my mistake. I though you were actually responding to things that I wrote instead of restating your initial position with more flowery language.

Doesn't usually take you this long to call me a racist and then break off when I ask you why, so I may as well push my luck to see how long you'll humor me.

Constant and universal awareness of racial bias is the only way we can minimize it.

My counter point is that constantly reminding everyone, everywhere, that everything has racial undertones is harmful. Like I said before, race baiting. I don't think you even really believe racism can ever end ("minimize it" not "end it").

Even if you don't want to admit it, I know you're smart enough to see the flawed logic in your current association of prop Q and white supremacy. So, as a thought experiment, let's assume that it has nothing to do with white supremacy. That no one who voted for it had that in mind and that it helps and hurts all homeless people of SF equally, regardless of race. Do you see how, in our thought experiment, injecting race where it legitimately isn't is harmful? It's drawing lines in the sand where none need be. It's losing support where you might have otherwise had it. It's feeding the democrat/liberal/San Francisco stereotype of whiny paranoia that just contributed to Trump winning the highest office in the land.

And what do we get if we assume it doesn't have racial undertones? How does that "amplify" the problem? I have the sinking feeling that if I get a response it will be some completely circular logic based on the assumption that racism is the largest driving force of why anyone does anything in America. But I can hope.

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