Is tolerance intolerant?

[bennyboy]

So Benny's idea of getting rid of racism is to deny demographics exist and are treated differently

No, my idea is to apply solutions from the individual up, rather than from arbitrary group identities down. Each and every citizen has a set of responsibilities, and a set of expectations about safety, liberty, and opportunity. Those must be enforced jealously.

When you make an application policy, for example, there shouldn't be a sliding scale: "This guy is black, so he gets +10 points on our Acceptometer™ approval system." Instead, you identify him as someone from an underperforming school, a poor neighborhood, you look at the fact that he's been working 5 hours a day since middle school, and you realize that this is a person with a real interest in being a productive citizen. It's in the society's best interest to cultivate that, even if his GPA isn't a perfect 4.0.

Get this point. You can't say "black people are mistreated, so we need to provide benefits X and Y to black people." You have to be less lazy than that-- say "This particular (black) kid has been put down and limited in opportunity all his life, and now is our chance as a society to rectify that problem."