Listened to an hour of NPR in the car while driving yesterday. 70 percent of what I heard was about race, including their TV critic who wrote the “Tom Hanks must become anti-racist” column declaring that In the Heights was colorist in its casting.
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It's one of those things where those in a position to do something about it won't understand this reality until they are no longer are a position to do anything about it. (May be there already.)
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The ultimate goal of these inquisitions and meltdowns is of course to manufacture consent for "race conscious" policies (or, in Kendi's term "antiracist discrimination") that are widely unpopular and in many cases forbidden by federal civil rights law and 14th amendment
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To explicitly commit yourself to enact "antiracist discrimination", or manufacturing consent around it (by inflicting social penalty on those who oppose it) is what it actually means for an institution to declare itself "antiracist" in 2021.
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For some people it looks like they are intentionally giving themselves PTSD
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You’re saying the quiet part out loud.
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