re: Before all this woke stuff started several years ago, didn’t race relations seem good?

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economic progress is a fundamental aspect of a free society. of course when a bad actor creates a worldwide negative externatlity, causing economic depression, there is going to be an increase in conflict. that has nothing to do with progress in race relations b/c the conflict exists among all parties against all other parties, increasing as the depression gets worse.

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I addressed this in my post. Relations with minority and majority groups pretty much everywhere are predicated on perceptions of economic opportunity. My point being that if what people perceive as "progress" is undone rather quickly, it wasn't all that progressive, which is a point the OP made.