This is as good a place as any to agree with a theme I am seeing on saidit a fair amount lately: racial realism.

Racial relations is a good example of our ideals not fitting reality. All of us would like to live in a world where the races were all equal and all got along fine, regardless of skin colour, ethnicity, religion, etc. The question is not if that's the ideal. It is.

The problem is that reality appears to make this impossible. There are cultural differences among the races that seem to be hardwired, and some of these differences create a lot of friction.

Our historical response to this over the past 75 years has been to hammer harder and harder on the "should!" aspect of the question. If people can't get along, we "should" change our behavior.

But there is a significant benefit to acknowledging inherent and immutable differences. It helps to guide to realistic solutions rather than idealistic ones. In other words, when faced with the fact that the root of racial animosity in our current moment is police interactions with the black community that are a result - 90% of the time - of police response to BLACK-ON-BLACK crime, we can examine why the black community is such a mess within itself. The roots of this are the destruction of the black family structure because of precisely the policies the liberal white community put in place in their idealistic fervour to help the black community. In other words, because liberal whites were incompetent in understanding the culture they were trying to "help", they fucked it up and made matters incalculably worse. All this was based on the absolute doctrine adopted by liberal whites that "blacks and whites think identically, and if we just give them the correct context, they will be raised out of poverty." That hypothesis is being proven spectacularly wrong. Liberal whites manifestly understand black inner-city culture NOT AT ALL, and thus every step they take makes the situation worse.

But faced with this radical failure, rather than acknowledge their mistake, they have done the insane and yet predictable. They choose to blame their opponents, whose ideas they absolutely rode over in order to create their utopia. If blacks aren't responding well to the policies put in place by liberal whites, the fault is with ... ... you guessed it! Conservative whites! If we can just crush conservative whites, then all these failed policies will magically work!

Once this method of ducking responsibility for their own failure is established, they are now moving it into all areas of discourse. Vaccines are failing? Blame the unvaccinated!

The liberal elite of our country is seemingly inherently incapable of acknowledging that their ideas are being demonstrated absolutely wrong (not just a little, but 180 degrees wrong) by reality. Reality is spitting in their face and laughing at the resulting chaos.

This article is in Sweden; the ideology is global. The liberal tendency to believe in their utopias is sowing chaos around the world.

How about we start expecting the same rights and responsibilities for everyone, regardless of race? Until we stop thinking it's our job to "help the unfortunate" as some special class rather than with the expectation that they behave just like everyone else, society around the world will continue to dissolve.

There are some real screwups built into human nature. This one is the longest-demonstrated I can see, going back thousands of years.