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5 min readA New Race War Just Started
In the span of a few weeks, two crowdfunding campaigns raised over a million dollars combined—one for a Black teenager who fatally stabbed a white classmate at a track meet, the other for a white woman caught on video calling a five-year-old Black autistic child the N-word in a Minnesota park. The first fundraiser for Carmelo Anthony pulled in nearly $600,000; the second for Shylock Hendricks surpassed $700,000 in days. As one commentator put it, "This would have never happened if the Carmelo Anthony GoFundMe didn't happen. This was a direct response." A digital race war had erupted, and both sides were raising money to celebrate their champions.
The Two Events That Broke Everything
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Opening: The Two Events That Triggered a Digital Race War** - Asmongold introduces two viral incidents that he argues have created a tipping point for racial hostility online.
- 2 (05:39) **Root Cause: BLM Riots and Unequal Law Enforcement** - Asmongold argues the current race war is a direct reaction to the 2020 BLM riots and the government's failure to shut them down.
- 3 (08:28) **The Honest Middle on Systemic Racism** - Asmongold acknowledges real racial injustice while condemning dishonest actors on both sides who exaggerate or deny the problem.
- 4 (12:16) **Identity Politics Becomes a Two-Way Street** - Asmongold observes that the rise of racial identity politics has now triggered a white identity politics in response.
- 5 (13:24) **The Blindness of Group Perspective** - Asmongold explains that people are sensitive to attacks on their own group while dismissing the same claims from other groups.
- 6 (14:29) **The N-Word Debate is a Misdirection** - Asmongold argues that focusing on offensive language distracts from the real, material problems facing minority communities.
- 7 (16:45) **Solving Crime vs. Virtue Signaling** - Asmongold advocates for a practical, multi-faceted approach to crime and policing, using El Salvador as a model.
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