I wrote about the new Bari Weiss vertical at the Atlantic and chattering class solidarity:https://forward.com/opinion/394870/bari-weiss-and-the-solidarity-of-the-punditry-class/ …
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I understand that you are uncomfortable owning up to the implications of your writing, since it makes you look bad.
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not eager to go back through your book, I have to say. but here:
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"People don’t hate others just because they have darker skin or differently shaped noses; they hate people whom they perceive as having values that are incompatible with their own, or who (they believe) engage in behaviors they find abhorrent"
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that's racist apologia, arguing we need to ratchet down heterogeneity or people will naturally gravitate to authoritarian responses.
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that's bilge, and suggests a striking lack of engagement with historical accounts of the working of racism, imo.
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Yes, you frame it as, "we must be careful." But in blaming racism on the targets of racism, you cosign the racist argument for greater homogeneity.
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Again, I understand that this is not how you want your work framed. But it's not a distortion of your work, from my point of view. It's an accurate statement of its core, stripped fo the handwaving.
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I think you'd go apeshit if somebody were to doggedly mischaracterize your views and motives in the same way you constantly do to others. Imagine complaining about it just to hear that the complaint is proof you know the "truth" about you is ugly.
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Replying to @willwilkinson @JonHaidt and
Intellectual racism by highly educated people is an important and insidious tradition, which Jon is participating in. If he's going to @ me, I'll be damned if I'm not going to tell him so.
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extraordinary
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