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Having to publicly humiliate yourself is pure Maoism. How can you compare it to learning type theory?
by danmaz74 6y ago
Having to publicly humiliate yourself is pure Maoism. How can you compare it to learning type theory?
- shadowgovt 6y agoIt's only public humiliation if people perceive it to be public humiliation. what's humiliating about having the same problem that basically everyone does?
- danmaz74 6y agoMost people (luckily) perceive racism to be a bad thing. Being forced to publicly confess to being something you should be ashamed of is the definition of humiliation.
- shadowgovt 6y agoIf it's true and uncomfortable it's still true.
- danmaz74 6y agoMy point is that public humiliation is much more likely to create resentment than to remove unconscious bias.
- Chris2048 6y agoThat's a funny stance given the context in which the material was introduced: as evidence that powerful people are racist "by their own admission". Doesn't sound like the no-big-deal definition of racism they might have thought they were confessing to. It also suggests it's up to session-organisers to decide what justifiably humiliates a person.
- shadowgovt 6y agoHumiliation is in the eye of the beholder. I don't see them as humiliated. They don't appear to think they are humiliated. Perhaps it's just not humiliating.
- Chris2048 6y ago> They don't appear to think they are humiliated How do you know? It doesn't sound like the kind of session where honest (dissenting) exchange is encouraged.
- shadowgovt 6y agoWe don't have a lot of signal on what kind of session it is. It's not the conclusion I'd jump to from one Free Beacon screenshot.
- Chris2048 6y agoDo you think multiple people would naturally volunteer to say those things in a regular session?
- shadowgovt 6y agoI don't have nearly enough insight into the inner workings of the minds of Northwestern University Law School administrators to guess.