The Left has long viewed any kind of inequality as an automatic justification for government intervention. As early as 1964, Ronald Reagan was noting that “we have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one.”
Today, the Left applies similar logic to race. Any disparity in outcomes between, for example, white people and black people is now attributable to “systemic racism,” and a racial animus supposedly pervades society at all levels. In this perspective, it is virtually impossible to view any interaction between a white person and a black person and not see confirming evidence.
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