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> But by definition, that's not what ignoring race does.

The only person talking about ‘ignoring race’ is you.

> This doesn’t mean we shouldn’t acknowledge that racism was a cause.

> By definition, that's what "rotating the line to be orthogonal to race" does.

No it doesn’t not ‘by definition’ or by any other reason. Your arguments don’t suddenly become true just because you say ‘by definition’.

You can acknowledge race as a cause, while not enshrining it as a solution.

Your solution requires that we must continue to be identified by the racial categories created by historical slave owners.

Not good.



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