this might be an unpopular opinion,but i feel that a lot of anti-racist educating has boiled down to teaching ppl the correct way to behave in public,so that they know the right things to say/do without offending ppl, but doing little to fundamentally upend patterns of hatred+
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of course that's not even scratching the surface of how little conventional anti-racist popular pedagogy has done re: systemic/institutional racism. hell, i would argue the same abt education re: class politics too. people know what to say to sound like they care when they don't
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ultimately people are just becoming better at self-censoring, even in the classroom. i have seen so many papers in a short period of time teaching that are just clearly regurgitations of what someone saw on some mtv show educating them how to not be racist. it's surface-level.
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i don't know what to do about this, tbh. there has to be a deeper part of this that involves people with (economic, racial, whatever) privilege recognizing the ways having an unjust society can be harmful to them too. and that's VERY hard to do.
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How about when people are harmed and have negatives in their lives which they do no control you acknowledge it and stop handwaving about abstract bullshit and wishing death on them
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