While I agree with most of what you said, I called out the racial persecution because that's the part that got so much worse over the past couple years. The government isn't separating white children from their guardians or turning a blind eye towards police violence against white people.
The unstated part of my post was Trump and the point was that we can get back to worrying about issues like copyright once we've figured out how to get rid of him. But as long as he's president, he's going to continually make things worse on so many fronts that trying to work on less pressing issues like copyright reform is like a doctor telling a fat man with a gunshot wound to exercise more because he's at risk of heart disease. You have to treat the immediately-life-threatening issue first.
None of this is to say that systemic economic unfairness isn't an issue that needs addressing, just that there's no way to treat that disease until we've dealt with the gunshot we received in the 2016 election.
The government isn't separating white children from their guardians or turning a blind eye towards police violence against white people
Isn't it fairly standard practice to separate children from their guardians when they are detained by law enforcement? We can of course have a discussion about whether this is warranted or not, I'm of the opinion that it isn't in the case of non violent offenses, but I would assume it happens fairly regularly to white people who are accused of breaking the law.
With regards to police violence, it definitely does disproportionately affect minorities, and in particular black men, but I feel in general the government is pretty good at turning a blind eye to police brutality and prosecutorial overreach even when it affects whites.
Is it standard practice to remove children completely from the care of any adult family members and place them in cages while completely losing track of who their parents/family are?
IDK, so many things seem normal these days. Was it two legs, or four?
The unstated part of my post was Trump and the point was that we can get back to worrying about issues like copyright once we've figured out how to get rid of him. But as long as he's president, he's going to continually make things worse on so many fronts that trying to work on less pressing issues like copyright reform is like a doctor telling a fat man with a gunshot wound to exercise more because he's at risk of heart disease. You have to treat the immediately-life-threatening issue first.
None of this is to say that systemic economic unfairness isn't an issue that needs addressing, just that there's no way to treat that disease until we've dealt with the gunshot we received in the 2016 election.