TIL Alan Turing, WW2 codebreaker and father of modern computer science, was also a world-class distance runner of his time. He ran a 2:46 marathon in 1949 (2:36 won an olympic gold in 1948). His local running club discovered him when he overtook them repeatedly while out running alone for relaxation

Well, and also minorities- especially black people - were being fucked way more recently than that, as well, with things like red lining and the war on drugs stealing a generation of parents and the judicial system prosecuting them at several times the rate as white people for non violent drug crimes even though we commit the “crimes” about the same amount (which when you consider how broken our penal system is and our sky high recidivism rates are, well...) Factor in some school funding is tied to property taxes and subconscious biases and you got yourself a potent oppression stew.

I think a lot of them aren’t hateful, though. Not intentionally. I think that’s where the defensive indignation comes from. They don’t know about all the ways folks have been actively or passively fucked and they feel like people are blaming them personally even though many times they’re also poor and living under some of the same class inequalities. And they exist within a system which is in some ways is designed to make sure they aren’t educated.

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