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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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].

The point is you don’t have to denigrate people to make a point. It only makes you look sexist and rude. I don’t need your good opinion or validation of my advanced degrees or vocabulary- just like you don’t need mine. I started with slavery is this original sin - there are obviously others - that need to be reckoned with. I don’t know what is like to be Black, just like you don’t what it is like to be a woman or an immigrant from a culture you aren’t privy to who speaks a language you are illiterate it. My point only is that anti-racist training has devolved from good intentions to meaningless bullet points with bigoted stereotypes baked in for good measure and rather than doing these anti-racism exercises we should work on more meaningful structural reforms legally and economically to desegregate. Or we can peddle sexism and snipe at each other on anonymous forums - that does feel like a performative exercise in bile-unloading.  :roll: [/quote]

I don't object to degrees (I have several!) But if you are going to wield those degrees and the attendant large vocabulary I would respectfully request you use them properly. Telling you that you don't understand what "calcify" means isn't sexist. I would no more hesitate to call out a woman in this situation than I would a man; the sex is irrelevant. The word has a meaning and it isn't what you think it means; you misused the word and implied a negative connotation where one does not exist. When called out for it you claim...sexism? Misogyny? Anti-immigrant sentiment?

Do you think I should go easy on you because you are a woman? That's the same fragile black person bullshit to which I so strenuously object. If you are gonna try and throw your Master's thesis bullshit around in an effort to seem knowledgeable you better be prepared to be called out for gross negligence of the English language.

I will bookend this by noting the grand irony that, in the end, you've done precisely what I took issue with at the start. You have alleged sexism and English language nativism and anti-immigrant sexism in response to someone calling out your behavior and actions. You may think me rude. You may think me indelicate. But claiming sexism or anti-immigrant bias is the same level of bullshit defense as a black mother claiming making her kid morbidly obese is a cultural choice that dare not be questioned.       [/quote]

I am really sorry that someone made you feel small and insignificant and poor-spoken such you get off on mansplaining (and apparently not checking) the dictionary. That gets us exactly no place as a society. But yes, we all need to own our behavior - and you do seem to have some deep issues with women that you need to work through. Good luck. [/quote]

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