Think about what it means to put a dude like Buckley onstage with someone like Baldwin. (Apologies for the millionth Baldwin/TNC analogy.)
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ppl like this NYT editor have historically set the parameters of MSM's discourse re: race in America. Think about what that has meant.https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/916269223692947461 …
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what does it tell you abt the "referees," as it were, that they can't tell these ppl aren't even having the same conversation?
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What does it mean that the referees don't/can't engage the many other thinkers who capably critique whiteness? Do they not know any others?
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(Do the referees even know what "whiteness" is? Might that be kind of impt to discerning whether an argument holds together?
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We're going to keep treating whiteness in America like climate change, and debate whether its a fiction while it imperils us all.
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You know, in the interest of "hearing both sides."
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And just like in that "debate," the arguments for the side that its much ado abt nothing gets more tortured as the evidence is made plainer.
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How seriously wd you consider an op-ed page's ability to frame the discourse on, say, gender if nearly all the ppl who ever wrote for it ...
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we're straight dudes? And straight white dudes? And straight, college-educated white dudes? That would be disqualifying, right?
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Bc that's effectively how the op-ed pages in MSM outlets have treated race for as long as we've even had anything that looks like a MSM.
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The consequences for this have not been abstract --- in the crafting of policy or in the creation of a polity.
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And it helps creates a broad consensus dedicated to its myopias, that takes unknowing as the most reasonable political position.
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