How To Talk About Racism

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Contrary to critics' vituperative claims, Woke Racism is in no way a right-wing book; McWhorter notes that he's never voted Republican in his life. "I consider my company to be left-leaning people who read The New York Times and The Atlantic," he says. "If it were 1960, everybody would think of me as a normal liberal. I would be this Adlai Stevenson–voting, pointy-headed liberal person." Since the late '60s, though, the idea has taken hold that "on race, radicalism is default." Though this attitude has ebbed and flowed over time, McWhorter argues that today's anti-racist crusaders evince a quasi-religious fanaticism that ends up hurting, not helping, the plights of black Americans.

McWhorter: There is a group of people who are committed to what they call social justice, certain enough of their moral purity that they are willing to hurt other people if they don't agree with their principles. Their notion is that they are saving people who are living under the power of white hegemony. Not only are these people mean and unpleasant to deal with, but in the name of social justice for black people, they often either don't care about black people for real, or they're hurting black people.

https://reason.com/2022/02/01/how-to-talk-about-racism/

Edited February 3, 2022 by AUFAN78

[alexava 6,973]

Good read?

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40 minutes ago, alexava said:

Good read?

Absolutely. 

 

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18 minutes ago, AUFAN78 said:

Absolutely. 

 

Ordered it a couple days ago. 

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Frederick Douglas said it best - “just give us the same chance”