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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Was the cruelty the point?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Why Do You Not Capitalize the Letter B in Black?

You explicitly choose not to say capitalize the letter b and the word black. Why did you do that? I feel very strongly that one of the keyt s that we need to understand as a society is that race is a myth. And so i prefer not to capitalize it. You mention to george floyd murder and all the protests that kind of sprang up out of that in 20 20. And then we now have this absolute moral panic over c r t, a term which almost no one understands and almost everyone uses haphazardly. But it does kind of feel like this reactionary counter movement against what happened in 20 20 and really an attempt to fundamentally d legitimize everything that it

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