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by Gunax 1950 days ago
If UBI is racist, then it seems to me that literally everything is racist.

You cannot change a government policy without somehow, somewhere affecting some minority. If we are going to going to call that racism, then we really cannot even have policy discussions.

Obviously Murray is a particularly controversial person, but UBI is obtaining small amounts of broad support in general.

I guess it just feels a bit exhausting to me. While I understand the reasoning behind what you wrote (and it's logical and internally consistent), I also feel one could just as reasonably make the case that not supporting UBI is racist.