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[–]aukofthecovenantWhite man with eyes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

  1. Diversity is not playing out as if it were a strength. For example, it is blazingly obvious that nobody cares when a white person is killed by police, or when a black person is killed by a black cop, but only when a black person is killed by a white cop, a situation that would not happen if not for diversity. Towards the goal of preventing race riots, we should as much as possible arrange to have blacks policed by other blacks. One way this could done rather easily would be to allow sufficiently black/white/etc areas (neighborhood, districts, towns, whatever) to request that they be policed only by blacks/whites/etcs and require police to respect that decision. I'm not sure that many places would make that deal, but they should at least have the freedom to do so. The long-term goal here is to make blacks more responsible for running their own affairs in order to make future separation easier.

  2. Media portrayals of people and events affect public opinion and therefore affect who wins elections. This means that the media has (indirect) political power, and as such the general public should be way more cynical about media people than they currently are. Rather than mandate something impractical like "journalists shall always report the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth", I think it would be enough to require that journalists identify themselves as whatever political orientation they align with. No more of this "our whole newsroom is left-wing, but we're an unbiased publication!" - at the very least, your readership will know that your whole newsroom is left-wing and can make their own judgments about the significance of that. We can tell the journalists it's like listing their pronouns.

  3. Ultra-wealthy people also have more political influence than is probably healthy. I propose that political donations be allowed only in one's capacity as a private citizen (i.e. no corporate donations), and donations per person per year be capped at a dollar amount pegged to the national median income.

[–]NeoRail[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There is a lot of talk these days about the role of the government as it relates to the media - generally, not even just in regards to journalists - but little concrete discussion and no mention of specific, practical measures that can be taken. It's certainly an interesting topic to think about.

Ultra-wealthy people also have more political influence than is probably healthy. I propose that political donations be allowed only in one's capacity as a private citizen (i.e. no corporate donations), and donations per person per year be capped at a dollar amount pegged to the national median income.

This is pretty smart. I imagine something along these lines would be very popular with many people today, although I think in this case the rich would just funnel their donations through NGOs and other types of "non-partisan" organisations. To an extent, this is already the model they are using.

[–]aukofthecovenantWhite man with eyes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think in this case the rich would just funnel their donations through NGOs and other types of "non-partisan" organisations. To an extent, this is already the model they are using.

My thinking is that "non-partisan" should count for nothing; no organization, period, gets to donate to political campaigns or organizations. So no NGO shell games, though you're probably right that there will be some whack-a-mole to enforce it. That shouldn't dissuade us from placing serious obstacles between wealth and power though.

[–]NeoRail[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The main issue would be that a lot of these de facto political organisations masquerade as "social" organisations. A lot of "charities" that are run by far left activists really don't look the part if you are just going off of the name. With that said, if you can draw the boundaries of what constitutes political activity, it may be possible to have this type of crackdown.