Edit, misread
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“Critical race theory ultimately is calling for a society that is egalitarian, a society that is just, and a society that is inclusive, and in order to get there, we have to name the barriers to achieving a society that is inclusive,” Ocen says. “Our government at the moment is essentially afraid of addressing our history of inequality and if we can’t address it, then we can’t change it.”
Well, there is your explanation right there. An egalitarian, inclusive and just society would pretty much upend their entire world view. I am confused about the refusal to acknowledge intersectionality. Are they claiming you cannot be both Black and a woman? I guess if you are only seeing straight, cis, white men as human, and everyone else as just “less than,” it doesn’t really matter. Pruning away their base I would think. Most (but not all by any stretch) younger people will walk away from that attitude. At least, I hope so.
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I dont think so. I think they’re claiming it doesn’t matter, because all that supposedly holds people back now is a lack of initiative and effort. It’s only “race hustlers” and “feminazis” and such who claim that being in a minority category is still a hindrance.
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Even still it’s a little confusing. I mean, if you are a Black man there are race hustlers trying to brainwash you with propaganda to prevent you from being a Randian overlord. If you are a White woman there are feminazis trying to brainwash you with propaganda to prevent you from being a Randian overlord. If you are a Black woman, you are being targeted by both. That’s intersectionality.
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Sure, but then, wearing masks obviously lowers viral spread, and many of these dipshits deny that too. Logic isn’t their strong point, and denial ain’t just a river.
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Yeah, I think it’s just more the need to dismiss out of hand anything that doesn’t 100% conform to the way they think the world works.
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on Wednesday night, the Murdock, Minn., City Council voted anonymously (yes, anonymously) to grant permission to a white supremacist group to use an abandoned Lutheran church as its third gathering facility in the United States.
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Would it be wrong to say that I hope it gets destroyed before construction is even completed?
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Unfortunately, it seems like it’s an already existing building? They probably just have to do some renovations…
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Would be a shame if some termites got into that lovely wooden church…
With the current Supreme Court interpreting “religious freedom” as it does, I’m assuming that members of this church will be legally allowed to refuse to hire or provide service to minorities.
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Worth the time:
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This is great…
I think many of us are familiar with Liam Hogan’s work on Irish American white supremacists’ claims about “Irish slaves” in the New world… this is talking about that, and includes the amazing phrase “leprechaun spunkbubble identities”… which is a fantastic phrase, I must say.
I also like the “ancient order of shitebernians” too.
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This just dropped, by a friend of mine.
Over the course of 10 minutes, Padilla laid out an indictment of his field. “If one were intentionally to design a discipline whose institutional organs and gatekeeping protocols were explicitly aimed at disavowing the legitimate status of scholars of color,” he said, “one could not do better than what classics has done.” Padilla’s vision of classics’ complicity in systemic injustice is uncompromising, even by the standards of some of his allies. He has condemned the field as “equal parts vampire and cannibal” — a dangerous force that has been used to murder, enslave and subjugate. “He’s on record as saying that he’s not sure the discipline deserves a future,” Denis Feeney, a Latinist at Princeton, told me. Padilla believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it. “Far from being extrinsic to the study of Greco-Roman antiquity,” he has written, “the production of whiteness turns on closer examination to reside in the very marrows of classics.”…
Padilla is advocating reforms that would “explode the canon” and “overhaul the discipline from nuts to bolts,” including doing away with the label “classics” altogether. Classics was happy to embrace him when he was changing the face of the discipline, but how would the field react when he asked it to change its very being? The way it breathed and moved? “Some students and some colleagues have told me this is either too depressing or it’s sort of menacing in a way,” he said. “My only rejoinder is that I’m not interested in demolition for demolition’s sake. I want to build something.”
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