So which radical ideas about race do you see as widespread today that you think King would have opposed?
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Replying to @whstancil
Racial realism, skepticism about the value of integration, anti-universalism, the idea of substantive cultural differences in styles of learning or definitions of literacy.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @whstancil
Are you saying that anti-racists are race realists?
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Replying to @cathasach4bikes @whstancil
Not race realists - racial realists, in the Derrick Bell sense of the phrase. And some anti-racists are, others aren't.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @whstancil
Do you have any examples of anti-racists pushing that position?
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Replying to @cathasach4bikes @whstancil
What do you mean? As I said, it's central to Derrick Bell's thinking: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qg47z ….
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @whstancil
So no one prominent, just a basically unknown academic.
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Replying to @cathasach4bikes @whstancil
Calling Derrick Bell "basically unknown" is a weird flex, but you do you.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @cathasach4bikes
yeah man I mean I just don't think Derrick Bell's decades-old ideas are really, like, especially salient in the discourse right now. obviously he's not an unknown but if you want to say "these are the ideas that are turning people off!" it's because someone went looking for them
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Replying to @whstancil @cathasach4bikes
Stop. Talking with you is impossible because you constantly move the goalposts. You asked what “extreme manifestations” MLK would disagree with. Racial realism is one of them. If you think that’s wrong, explain why. Don’t shift to a different question of “what’s turning ppl off.”
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Don’t waste time (mine or yours) with pointless failed dunks.
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Not meant to be a dunk but making I think an obvious point: that event allegedly moderate advocates like MLK are not seen as moderate by white public (when he was alive).
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