There are other ways for the mandate to be racist; I am simply stating that a racist vaccine rollout would be sufficient, not necessary.
While agreeing that the vaccine rollout was not racist. Tilting at windmills comes to mind, but at least Don Quixote thought he was actually slaying giants.
It convinces me that Kendi said it was not racist.
I'm not sure why that is not enough for you.
However, using the definition for a racist policy that Kendi previously espoused (and has not disavowed, as far as I can tell), it would be a racist policy.
You have not demonstrated that.
Sorry, I must have missed that, but you and I both know that we are talking about mandates that have been enacted, or have a non-zero chance of being implemented.
You and I both do not 'know' that. Indeed,
Well, you should, because I clarified that in the following post in response to your ridiculous question about mandates that involve kidnapping people:
Absolutely not, as that is quite ridiculous. I am talking about the current mandate in the US, which has caused an increase in vaccinated persons, and has not resulted in a single person being placed under house arrest.
I guess if you are still talking about mythical mandates that involve kidnapping people, we are going to be at loggerheads.
I am not talking about only vaccine mandates that have been enacted, but on the entire spectrum of possibilities, including what I regard as an extreme version supported by multiple people on this board.
Well, if you are going to talk about the entire spectrum of possibilities, no matter how realistic that they actually be enacted, then we are going to have then entire spectrum of answers, from "no", to "maybe", all the way to "yes". Congratulations, you then prove absolutely nothing about the real world.
I do not agree, and "almost"? It seems like you are not entirely convinced by your own argument either.
Any mandate that treats the unvaxxed less favourably than the vaxxed will be racist by Kendi's definition of a racist policy.
There might be some kind of vaccine mandate that does not treat the unvaxxed less favourably, but I don't know what that would look like.
It would be a vaccine mandate which mandates that
everyone should get a vaccine, therefor increasing vaccination rates for the previously unvaxxed, who then become the vaxxed and have improved outcomes.
Further, I think we can take it as a given that the mandate being discussed in the clip with Kendi was the US Vaccine Mandate, and not some made up mandate that has no chance of being enacted anywhere. So, you would need to show us specifically how the US mandate causes racial inequity in order to show that Kendi is contradicting himself.
I do not know when Kendi said that nor what the mandate was when he did.
In that short clip, he did not say that, however, it can be inferred from the context of where the Q&A with him took place.
Vaccine mandates are different in every US State, are they not?
Previously that was the case, however, the Biden administration has issued a mandate for the entirety of the US. There are some States that are fighting against the mandate.
Anyway: let's take a mild version of a vaccine mandate: the unvaccinated cannot go to indoor entertainment venues.
That is not a vaccine mandate. A vaccine mandate would be a mandate that requires people to get vaccinated.
KeepTalking said:
I think it clarifies his position on the topic fairly well. You have not shown that the vaccine mandate will lead to racial disparity, so I don't think you have any cause to say it was anything more than a clarification.
The vaccine mandate would of course lead to a disparity, because black and white people are vaccinated at different rates. Any mandate that treats vaxxed and unvaxxed people must inevitably, therefore, create a disparity between black and white people.
Vaccine mandates have been proven to increase the number of vaccinated people.
Forbes: Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Are Working—Here’s The Proof
Forbes is not a liberal publication to say the least. Given that the mandates increase vaccination rates, then the outcomes will be improved for blacks as well as whites.