There's also no shortage of previous or current calls by Trump for violence against his opponents and ordinary citizens

Don't ask social scientists or economists how to measure it either

People alive today are more likely to see their *grandchildren* reach their 20s than the average human in history was to see their *child* reach their teens

Genuinely curious what similar, rational reasons, analogously affirmed in the 1700s and 1900s, connects Delaware and Montana, or Alaska and Rhode Island

To be fair, they extend this perspective to all ethnic minorities, not just MPs

I think that's right too. For something like pride or shame to make sense in a collective way I feel we need some sense of collective responsibility. Ie through voting and then our government doing something good or bad? Even if we voted for the other outcome, being a part of the decision making?

My sense is that the problem isn't it being moral, but the reactive attitudes of pride and shame. Tho it does *sometimes* feel like pride or shame at something you are not individually responsible for is appropriate?

I am with you

Tho I wonder abt the difference if ppl feel pride abt, say, the football team they support winning, or shame in them losing

I don't think it's just the present v past, as ppl feel pride in eg winning championships 100 years ago?

Community/group identity is often felt in moral terms

Yes. The question then is why racialise his lack of (political)) affinity and alignment with Lammy? There are plenty of other not-race-based reasons for people to disagree, but the thoughtless default for Black public figures is to focus on race, often tapping into racist stereotypes about Black ppl

Hasn't he previously indicated Boris Johnson was out of his depth as PM? I don't recall him suggesting that was because he was white?

In 2015 Geoffrey wrote a 2 pager on the 1965 Act, in this edited volume

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While the Act was weak, Geoffrey & others understood the importance of signalling: that discimination was wrong to the majority & that the state was responsive to minority experience