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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have come to the conclusion that anti-racist training just encourages, like here, racism and misogyny all around. It  perpetuates sexist and racist stereotypes and tropes. It does not encourage true dialogue, introspection, intersectionality among any individual, group, or demographic. Slavery is the original sin of this country, and racism, among other isms, remains, injures, and kills - but these inorganic efforts are as facile as the "consciousness-raising" activities of our parents. People calcify their convictions. Better to spend time and money integrating schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods. [/quote]

That's some deep sh*t...I guess. Who really knows since much of it is nothing but woke buzzwords and academic phony baloney.

Here's a stripped down effort:

Racism is real and alive and makes being black in America hard. It needs to be addressed. Efforts to address systemic racism are undermined when (possibly) well meaning SJWs pick silly issues that are not truly about race as their lead in to address issues of real, persistent and malignant racism. Being rude or an asshole to a black parent or kid isn't necessarily racist; sometimes it's just being rude or inconsiderate and being an asshole. Disagreeing with a choice or action made by a black person doesn't necessarily make you, or your action, racist. Black people don't want racist assholes calling us names anymore than we want white SJW agreeing with everything we say and treating us like fragile objects in order to prove they are "allies". This type of "Lunchable" effort does nothing to move the ball forward. White people who are inclined towards racist thoughts or actions (intentional or otherwise) will dig in deeper on seeing this crap and use it as evidence that the black struggle and racism are invented. Black people who use their blackness as a defense for shitty choices or actions (see, morbidly obese children) will see this as a license to perpetuate their behavior. Well meaning people in the middle who might otherwise engage in productive discussions will throw up their hands and not know WTF to do or say because the oxygen in the room is consumed by this garbage. And (white) people who are still grappling with whether and to what degree racism and the black experience informs their world get one more data point that minimizes the real issues facing black people in America.

Volunteers in classrooms shouldn't be assholes to anyone or make kids feel bad or give parenting advice to kids to communicate to their parents. There are real battles to fight; choose better ones.   [/quote]

PP post illustrates the point - calcification - name-calling for cheap kicks, etc. [/quote]

Pray tell, professor. Where did I call anyone a name?

This isn't academic or "for kicks" for me and mine - it is life in American every damn day. For the high minded white folk with masters degrees (yeah, I am assuming that's you) this is some post-grad, double speak nonsense that interests you...today.

You need to go back to your grad school and request a refund because you are misusing the word "calcification". Calcification of ideas or thoughts or beliefs doesn't have anything to do with name calling. And it isn't necessarily inherently bad. The concepts of calcification and name calling are not necessarily related or correlated. John Lewis's beliefs were calcified. So were MLKs and Ghandi's and Mandela's. It means to have absolute conviction in your belief to the point of hardening. I am calcified in my belief that slavery was the original sin. That there remains in America systemic racism that impacts the daily life of black people. That we have a lot of work to do and serious issues and conversations to have. And that confusing stupidity or rudeness or just plain being an asshole to kids does not remotely rise to the level of seriousness of addressing systemic racism in America.

(And here comes the "why do you think I'm white?" Cause as usual, SJW mommies who get called out for their silliness always turn out to be black, or have black husbands, or kids, or cats, or dogs.) [/quote]

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