CaptUSA
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Scott Adams is taking heat for his comments the other day, but he's right: this is not fixable.
I think where Adams went off the rails was when he equated "some" black people with "all" black people. At first, I thought he was referring to separating himself with the 47% of the poll that couldn't say it was ok to be white, but it soon became clear that he was talking about separating from black people in general. It's an easy slip of logic, but a dangerous one.
When I look at this video, I don't automatically focus on the racial aspects. Just like I didn't when I watched the George Floyd incident. I do see cultural impacts, though. And I think sometimes people equate the cultural issues with racial issues. These things are not mutually exclusive.
As for the "diversity" comment, I think Thomas Sowell put it best: "America’s great good fortune has been that Americans have been able to unite as Americans against every enemy. It has not been our diversity, but our ability to overcome the problems inherent in diversity, and to act together as Americans, that has been our strength." And that's what gets lost when we try to divide by race.