My thoughts? It’s a specious argument that presumes the only way to address racsim was to create a society of assholes. One of the reasons it’s specious is that the counter-culture revolution which has resulted in the permissiveness that has been so harmful to today’s society in terms of crime, drugs, STDs and abortions, not to mention belligerent personal behavior, had virtually nothing to do with the issue of race.
The notion that creating a crass, vulgar and relatively low-class society was necessary in order to correct racism is a revisionist one that has been propogated after the fact by people who dishonestly want to credit their ideology for advances made by blacks themselves. The real reason is that lefties of that time wanted to do away with existing standards so they could dress like scuzzbugs, do drugs, fuck in the mud at rock festivals, and still find jobs and not get shit about their long hair, clothes and drugs from the rest of society.
It wasn’t until long after the fact that liberals began to claim they did it all in the name of racism.
It is true that most of the civil rights legislation introduced during the 20th century came from liberal-leaning politicians - and that is to their credit - but it is also true that most of it was introduced during the more polite and civil time that existed prior to the late sixties. (Which, of course, demonstrates even more clearly that creating a crude, classless society like exists today was not necessary in order to correct issues of racism.)
It’s a popular meme among the left, anxious to defend what it’s done to life in this country that it was all necessary to fight racism, but it’s neither a correct nor honest one.