Sorry if i seemed like i was lumping you in with anyone, that was not my intention. I am just repeatedly dismayed by people's refusal to engage with anything that does not confirm their own viewpoint. On a subject like race I know that has never been the case with you. I like the fact that it is not an essay promising easy answers or pretending that even things like positive discrimination are a yes or no choice. You can make a strong logical argument for and against legislation to enforce positive discrimination, but in practice a sensible fuzzy implementation using common sense can work, as can an awareness that it is often very easy to not be aware of barriers that actually reinforce and have for many years implemented positive discrimination on behalf of the majority for no good reason.

E.G Universal access design. For many years people have put stairs on the front of buildings because that is what they have always done. Often a slope or ramp can not be more aesthetically coherent, it can help not just disabled access but also more easily accessed by parents with pushchairs and prams, Delivery and maintenance staff with trolleys, the elderly, etc. It is not being an SJW to recognize that this is a simple barrier that often keeps a large portion of the population from being able to access some buildings, but to then, with that knowledge, carry on building places without this kind of principle is actually maintaining a barrier that does not need to be there. It does not mean those architects and town planners hate disabled people but it does mean that they are refusing to engage with the multiple barriers the disabled people face and the reality many of us will have to face if we all live long lives. I think the same barriers are there for other groups and communities on many levels and the explicit nature of a term like 'White Supremacy' can make us blind to many of it's less visible implications.

When people throw up their hands at even studying reparations or the impact of slavery and yet are very quick to cite absent Black fathers and the bell curve and other data to maintain their own fantasy bubble, then it is they and not just those wanting to pull down statues who are trying to erase history.