[_-david-_]

>Yeah the right in the US has always preferred to pretend like racism is an abstract idea

Seeing how this is NY where the left had control and has had control for quite sometime, maybe they should try to actually fix it.

>that reverse racism is a thing.

Nobody believes reverse racism is a thing. There is only racism.

>How about this: maybe we /should/ treat unvaxed minorities before unvaxed whites

Seems like that would be continuing the institutional racism you are criticizing.

[drekk]

Democrats aren't the "left" by any stretch, the two parties are both wings of the same bird and it's amazing to see people pretend otherwise. They have the same corporate donors and belong to the same class. You have a center right corporate technocracy party and a far right blood and soil party. That's the best your "representative" (no universal suffrage until ~50 years ago when native women were allowed) democracy can offer as choices: slow violence or faster violence.

If you think people can meaningfully be racist against white people in America, let's put aside the semantic nonsense and get into the difference between discrimination (something anyone can experience) like "haha crackers can't dance" and racism, such as being 3.64x more likely to be arrested for drug possession despite nearly identical usage rates (and being a minority of the population).

Black and brown communities /are/ more vulnerable to COVID. Because the US is still de facto segregated, including in the "left" cities. We live in the consequence of redlining, and it's why "minority neighborhoods" have incredibly underfunded hospitals. Not to mention the very recent (one could argue still continuing) medical experimentation on minorities, like the Tuskegee Syphilis study, and maybe that would lead one to empathize with a hesitation to trust this country's medical institutions.