Rinaldo Walcott, you are making racist and unwarranted assumptions about me, both on The Agenda and followed up in this tweet. You think I wouldn't stand up to a white professor, but I would to a racialized one? What an absolutely unfounded argument.https://twitter.com/blacklikewho/status/935936856591622145 …
At the root of the problem seems to be that you cannot effectively ask people to submit to the logic of a system in which they are economically fucked, even if that logic is totally enlightened and truthful and pluralist liberal.
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not to mention meritocratic. How does one reduce economic competition to their own self in a meritocratic society? Political Correctness is a logical response by those who recognise that when challenged they may - at first - fall short. Hence, the retreat into identity feudalism.
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OTOH, if the economic wellbeing of people fully depends on moving to the top levels of a meritocracy, those not at the top really have no choice but to try to redefine how merit is measured. It is dangerous to set up societies like a race.
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all societies conduct hazing to test whether people can develop the character necessary to overcome adversity. Kids are just unfortunate contemporarily not to have adults - especially male adults who experience this the most - around who know this. Doors always open to character.
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