The following passage (borrowed from a twitter feed) is very suggestive:
We can all get a good chuckle about how these precious snowflakes need a safe space.
I imagine there’s some value in people being able to say things without having to worry about being evaluated (which is what “racist” is). This is what rough drafts are for.
But rough drafts also serve another purpose: to elicit cheap criticism in a low-stakes environment. You can’t forget that part.
If you do, then you’re just talking and making other people listen. What’s the point of that?
If you refer to the full memo, I’m sure you will find fodder for a great many posts about logical fallacies:
http://www.democracycorps.com/attachments/article/1063/Dcor_Macomb_FG%20Memo_3.10.2017_FINAL.pdf
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Interesting, how this supposedly reachable population is reciting Reagan-era tropes, almost verbatim — Cadillac-driving welfare queens, young bucks buying… Porterhouse steaks instead of entire T-bones.
This whole line of argument takes me back to when my wife and I were foster parents, and my wife would go grocery shopping with mixed-race children who were in our care, make purchases in part with their EBT/Bridge card, and then take them to our SUV. I hope we didn’t turn too many people like the Macomb crowd into Trump voters, but I can say that people like these gave my wife a lot of dirty looks.
(The final two paragraphs are my comments, not Matt’s.)
I fixed the comment, Aaron.
Interesting story (just confirmed by my wife who worked once as an attorney for foster kids).
In the present case, of course, no one is allowed to correct their (likely mistaken) impression–because, well, safe spaces.
Such precious snowflakes.