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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Ibram X Kendi will be remembered as a popular political scholar who successfully sold a well-meaning but unproven theory on how to end racism. He will be remembered for both the concept's failure and worse, its further polarization of a society. And I say this as someone who's been fighting racism for almost 40 years now. [/quote]

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Except I think he won’t be remembered by all that many.
It’s just that most who know of him are familiar with his work and theories through a mandatory anti-racist seminar or “training” that we were forced to attend that left a bitter taste in our mouths, particularly when he committed to the conclusion that discrimination is the tool that is necessary to use in order to correct past discrimination. 
Basically—he is preaching “do unto others as you feel they have done unto you” rather than the golden rule.
And a lot of people get some immediate satisfaction from that sort of revenge-based policy. But it doesn’t actually serv as a useful tool if the goal is to move forward as a society in harmony with one another.[/quote]

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