Can't wait for the moral outrage culture to backfire and we see a major regression in the 2020's.
I doubt it. What we're seeing right now is the last gasp of the old racist CAC generation, feebly clutching at their vanishing relevance. In another decade or two, they'll all be dead and the young urban hipsters of today will be in charge.
Yes, and the pro-sex, anti-war, pro-drug baby boomer generation okay'd the war on drugs, gave rise to anti-feminist pro-abstinence pap, and started multiple wars. Then again, it has been argued that the youth culture movement wasn't so much as an actual culture shift as it was a drug culture, and people just made those their views because it was cool at the time. So we'll see.
Ultimately though, why I'm so apathetic about this is highlighted in the Time article written by Mr. Jabbar. Not only is it not surprising, it feels as if the main reason these people are going so hard on this is because they don't have direct control of racism that they do face on a regular basis, so they feel that with this they can finally stick it to the man. Makes sense. But the guy said very unflattering remarks about the NBA's main target demo, so he was going to go anyways - just a matter of time. Just sit and relax, people. Instead, there's outrage that the dude needs to go immediately, and will probably help breed even more contempt towards blacks in someone else - somewhere, somehow. In the end, firing this guy doesn't do much to change the landscape of America, where the black unemployment rate is 12.1. But you got a basketball team owner fired, bravo.
It angers me that there's so many racial issues in America, but the only ones that ever get as much press as this one is when someone makes flavorful remarks about another race, rather than showing actual empathy towards an entire races living experience.