First of all, I'm kind of surprised that you think "do right and fight wrong" is overemotional, shrill invective. You're as bad as obi when it comes to picking nice-sounding words out of a dictionary to throw around to sound intelligent. But I digress.

Secondly, multiple people asked directly about that story in Wisconsin, and we got the "Fuck white people for complaining about any race-related grievances that they run into, they don't get to complain because things are usually good for them" response. If that's not tacitly approving, or at least refusing to condemn, blatantly obvious wrong, I don't know what is. God knows you'd call me out on it if I were in his position and did that.

But more to the point: You're not getting the point of the opposition here. It's not that you guys are making things up about a power structure that favors one group and marginalizes others. I, at least, acknowledge reality, that this is so, and it is wrong. And while it's clear not everyone in opposition to that point acknowledges it, the point *I* am making is that you can acknowledge this and still ultimately agree with the other side's main point.

That main point is:

Wrong is wrong.

Notice that no one here is saying that throwing peanuts at a black camerawoman and calling her an animal is right. That's because it isn't. It's wrong. It's obvious that it's wrong.

The complaint from the other side is that reporting on race-based issues is all screwed up, on all sides. Priorities are all messed up. I think the link I posted from my earlier thread demonstrates this even without bringing up things done to white people. We have this story, getting constant coverage on a national level. Stupid white people being racist jerks to a black camerawoman. Yes, this is bad, and yes, it deserves to be called out.

So does the story I posted, about a black man being killed for no good reason by white police. That's far more serious than peanuts and a camerawoman, sorry. Someone actually died from an act of, if not overt racism, then surely pretty clearly racist sentiment an inch under the surface. That is far more serious than racist taunts. Yet the racist taunts get full coverage because they score political points, where the far more serious wrong gets, to quote Tolstoy earlier, two minutes of throwaway time, since it can't be used as political capital.

That, to me, demonstrates a real problem with solving the race relations question. It, like everything else, is being scooped up, bastardized, and flung around like a rhesus monkey's excrement for political gains by both sides. Republicans got a black speaker to talk about hard work so they can claim to be racially inclusive. A pro-Democrat media constantly runs a story where a couple of Republicans act like racist morons so the Democrats look better during an election season. There's no legitimate end to what is ostensibly a noble means; the good act of calling out racism is just being used for cheap points in a fierce election season.

That the story about white people getting attacked got similarly ignored, then, isn't evidence of societal "reverse" racism. (Side note, who coined this term? It's stupid. Racism is racism. "Reverse" is unnecessary.) Coupled with aforesaid story of a black guy's murder being ignored, it's instead painting a broader brush that further complicates not only race relations but everything else: that the people on top of the social hierarchy don't care about fixing problems, just trying to herd those on the bottom into helping them maintain or expand their strength on the top.

You don't solve it by bemoaning racism done only by white people. All that does is dehumanize white people who actually do receive race-related suffering. There is no excuse for the victim-blaming that Mafia did with his comment in response to the incident cited. None at all. Victim-blaming is wrong no matter who the victim is. Black people don't deserve to be victimized due to their race. White people don't deserve to be victimized due to their race. NO ONE deserves to be victimized due to their race. It is ALWAYS WRONG when someone is victimized due to their race.

And to make a serious stand to end the problem of victimization due to race, ALL INSTANCES of such victimization need to be condemned and called out. The problem I see with yours and with Mafia's position is that you don't go far enough. You've both done a wonderful job of doing this when it comes to marginalized people, and you've both opened my eyes to marginalization I didn't see before, marginalization I wrote off, marginalization that without y'all I wouldn't be fighting out of my own ignorance. You've done a hell of a job with it. Now let's take it a step further and fight *all* wrong.

That's the origin of the opposition to what you're saying. It isn't that you're wrong about racism being used as a tool for political ends. It's that you're not being consistent in opposing that use.

Wrong is wrong is wrong.