It's also a term that liberal Democrats use to describe things like the ones listed above. |
I've read Kendi's book. I've studied institutional racism and I welcome my child reading books by non white male authors. I can differentiate between the idea of how Whitness is a concept where powerful white people maintain institutional power through structures of hierarchy and that's not the same as saying "all white people are evil monsters" I think most white poeple are uncomfortable with how much unexamined privilege and power they have. And either they reject it in terms of feeling extreme sense of guilt or they reject and complain it's "cancel culture" or its' "cirtical race theory that means every white person is Hitlter" rather then focusing on how to solve a the problem. |
I've literally never heard the term until two months ago when it became the newest Conservative Boogeyman dujour. |
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So you support teaching a book written by someone who actively lobbies for discrimination against whites? And I'm glad you welcome your child reading books by non white male authors. But do you support a racist teacher who says, "I refuse to teach books written by white men?" Surely you can see that those are different, no? And how would a 9 year old white kid view being told that whiteness is system of oppression? Or how would a 9 year old black kid view his white friends after hearing this? And what does this mean "powerful white people maintain institutional power through structures of hierarchy" to non-powerful white people like most white people are. |
You should ask councilman Jawando. He supports it. |
From how it's been described I'd say it makes perfect sense but is one of those phrases that sounds bad. I mean it's a critical theory about race right? Kidding aside, it does seem to be something that white nationalist types are focused on. |
As soon as internet trolls are limited to defining something by what politician they hate who likes it, you know they don’t actually know what it is. |
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Yeah, you don't have any idea what it is. |
Have you actually read any of Kendi's books? When did he "lobby against whites?" How does one actually do that? Were you there when the teacher said "I refuse to read a book by x" or are you just fear mongering and trafficking in lies, half truths and exaggerations? It sounds like you are fill of anxiety and fear and are lashing out at something you don't fully understand |
Have you actually read any of Kendi's books? When did he "lobby against whites?" How does one actually do that? Yes. How to Be an Antiracist “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. Were you there when the teacher said "I refuse to read a book by x" or are you just fear mongering and trafficking in lies, half truths and exaggerations? He tweeted it for the whole world to see. It sounds like you are fill of anxiety and fear and are lashing out at something you don't fully understand I'm lashing out against racism directed at my kids for being white. |
Then why don't you tell us what it is? |
Are you saying that Jawando doesn't know what it means? |
White nationalist types like John McWhorter? https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/you-are-not-a-racist-to-criticize |