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Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/non-black-people-speak-up-for-black-lives-op-ed https://www.teenvogue.com/story/non-black-people-speak-up-fo... CBS

by Digory 6y ago

Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/non-black-people-speak-up-for-black-lives-op-ed https://www.teenvogue.com/story/non-black-people-speak-up-fo... CBS News: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-silence-on-social-media-why-not-saying-anything-is-actually-saying-a-lot/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-silence-on-social-media-w... Houston Chronicle: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Speaking-up-against-racism-speaks-volumes-15319893.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/article/Speaking-up-ag... Here is the Google scholar search, to show that the phrase is widespread, and not particularly used as hyperbole among scholars. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=“silence+is+violence”&btnG= https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=“silence+is+viole... So, beauty magazines, mainstream press, and the academy. What part of that is not widespread? Ed: more, since this was only 1 for 4, in your mind. College administrators: https://www.naspa.org/blog/silence-is-violence-why-using-our-voice-matters https://www.naspa.org/blog/silence-is-violence-why-using-our... Hockey players. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/mark-fraser-racism-george-floyd-hockey-nhl https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/mark-fraser-racis... Twin Cities teenagers, inspired by BLM protests: https://www.twincities.com/2020/07/22/roseville-teens-keep-making-black-lives-matters-signs-despite-thefts-vandalism/ https://www.twincities.com/2020/07/22/roseville-teens-keep-m... The editor of Governing Magazine. https://www.governing.com/now/A-Shattered-Complacency-When-Silence-Equals-Violence.html https://www.governing.com/now/A-Shattered-Complacency-When-S... Sophie Turner, as seen in the Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8395851/Pregnant-Sophie-Turner-says-White-Silence-Violence-BLM-protest-Joe-Jonas.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8395851/Pregna... What, exactly, is your quantum of proof here?

lisper 6y ago
I followed all of your links. In the first two, the word "violence" appears nowhere in the text. There is a photo of a cardboard sign with the slogan "White Silence is violence" but that proves nothing. I can find photos of all kinds of crazy slogans on signs. The Houston Chronicle story does feature an interview with Cherry Steinwender, executive director of the Center for Healing Racism, explicitly endorsing this point of view. That is the first actual data point I have seen. The Google Scholar search brings up a lot of articles containing the phrase "silence is violence" but a lot of them are red herrings having nothing to do with the matter at hand. So that's one valid data point. Better than nothing, but still a long way from a self-evidently mainstream point of view as McWhorter claims.

by Digory 6y ago

lisper 6y ago

I followed all of your links. In the first two, the word "violence" appears nowhere in the text. There is a photo of a cardboard sign with the slogan "White Silence is violence" but that proves nothing. I can find photos of all kinds of crazy slogans on signs. The Houston Chronicle story does feature an interview with Cherry Steinwender, executive director of the Center for Healing Racism, explicitly endorsing this point of view. That is the first actual data point I have seen. The Google Scholar search brings up a lot of articles containing the phrase "silence is violence" but a lot of them are red herrings having nothing to do with the matter at hand. So that's one valid data point. Better than nothing, but still a long way from a self-evidently mainstream point of view as McWhorter claims.