People have a hard time reconciling the difference between “raise group X up” and “knock group Y down”.
The former is a universal good and the correct way to remedy historical injustice. The latter is punishing people, literally, for the sins of their fathers.
There is of course complexity and some zero sum situations where raising X harms Y, but most of the world is not zero sum and you do not have to start from that default position.
True. I suppose the problem is that knocking down Y is often easier than raising up X. And group revenge can feel good.
Indeed, it is a dysfunction of our political system that the most politically engaged & active on each side .. rarely touches grass.