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"you can't simply draw a boundary... Https if people don't have responsibility... Only individuals do"

I think this is specious reasoning. We accept this just fine in other tort circumstances e.g

1) lawsuits against a city after miscarriage of justice

2) lawsuits against corporations when X happens.

Often individual responsibility will be a portion of the trial but to my understanding it is

1) a secondary or even tertiary concern

2) used to deflect blame from the group

I think in general not allowing blame to be allocated to individuals will lead to poor results. We need methods to call systems bad and curtail them in addition to individuals



Those examples are legal entities with decision-making hierarchies and individuals with the power to exit the group and with limited liability.

Racial groupings are not even natural categories (there are tons of ways to divide people up by ethnicity).


I think the relevant grouping to take to task for these issues is federal, state, and local governments (and probably quite a few corporations). Not "white people".


> Racial groupings are not even natural categories (there are tons of ways to divide people up by ethnicity).

No but class action lawsuits do give us two categories.




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