Again, at one point, the same thing would have been said about witch trials and gay marriage and tying left-handed people's dominant hand behind their backs. Maybe neither of us will be alive to see who's right. But even if I'm wrong, I'd rather be trying to do something about it than throwing up my hands and asserting, despite all evidence to the contrary, that it's “never gonna happen”.

Most of the rest of this is arguing with things I haven't said. Or at least is needlessly pedantic readings of what I wrote.

Yes, bigotry is 90% based on ignorance. It's not literally equivalent to ignorance. Did you really think I was saying there's no difference??

Yes, the "radical left" 🙄 is doing a terrible job of identifying and fixing the problem. We would probably agree substantially on the problems with identity pollitics.

And I didn't say that saying racism is natural is saying it's okay. I'm just saying it isn't natural. I've given you numerous examples of why I think that. But if you take the attitude of "there's nothing that can be done about racism," especially when history shows very clearly that there is, you give yourself permission to do nothing.

You and I do agree that we shouldn't tell white people that they're evil because they're white. I mean, I just wrote an article saying so. But hey, maybe it's just a "natural consequence of innate biases" (including the white people who have learned to...uh, I mean who innately say these things about themselves). Maybe there's nothing that can ever be done about it and I should stop bothering to try. Or maybe you're more able to see the need for proactive efforts to change people's thinking when the flaws in that thinking affect you.