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>Growing to overcome past problems is not sufficient. Their assumption is moreso that we cant grow to overcome past problems. So the only way to build themselv
by loveistheanswer 5y ago
>Growing to overcome past problems is not sufficient.
Their assumption is moreso that we cant grow to overcome past problems. So the only way to build themselves up is to tear others down.
Thats why the popular "anti-racism" philosophy is so antithetical to and ignorant of the lives and philosophies of many of the greatest civil rights leaders such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, and MLK.
- pessimizer 5y ago"Their" Who are they? The people who believe racism exists?
- xg15 5y agoDo you believe racism can be overcome?
- loveistheanswer 5y agoThe people who judge and define others primarily by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. Those who fight racism with racism and call it anti-racism or reverse-racism. Those who use hate, blame, and punishment as their tools of power, rather than love, forgiveness, and self/community empowerment. Those who focus on division rather than unity.
- flippinburgers 5y agoSome of the more vocal users on twitter in other words.
- fwip 5y agoAnti-racism doesn't say that people cannot grow.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoSome self-described anti-racists do indeed hold that idea[0]. [0]: https://www.ocpathink.org/post/does-race-massacre-silence-show-need-for-school-choice https://www.ocpathink.org/post/does-race-massacre-silence-sh...
- fwip 5y agoCould you point me to the paragraph in question? I've read the article a few times now, and I don't see A) anyone described as anti-racist or B) anything saying people who do racist things cannot grow.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoSorry! Somehow I managed to paste completely the wrong link, and now it is too late for me to edit my previous comment. I realise now that scrolling down on that website automatically loads new articles and updates the address bar. Here[0] is the article I had meant to link to. Ah man… I really feel bad that you read the wrong article a few times after I unwittingly mislead you. I'm genuinely sorry about that. [0]: https://www.ocpathink.org/post/whites-will-always-be-racist-author-says-at-tulsa-event https://www.ocpathink.org/post/whites-will-always-be-racist-...
- sverona 5y ago> Robin DiAngelo I'm going to have to start asking for better sources on antiracism than a white woman who makes a career out of corporate "diversity training." Like, of course that's her entire thesis. White fragility is a very useful concept, for sure. But the way DiAngelo uses it seems to be more focused on making white people hem and haw and feel guilty for even trying instead of doing mutual aid, reading theory, forming community, anything actually helpful or useful. If I wanted to set up a strawman, that's exactly what I'd do.
- sverona 5y agoIn case anyone finds this, I should probably clarify that my beef is with DiAngelo specifically rather than with CRT in general. I think that what she puts forth leads to unhelpful, performative activism, and I think she characterizes Black people erroneously as a monolith. In my opinion, the end result is white people getting bounced off of important work by one excessively moralizing book with a profit motive. For this and other reasons White Fragility is being taken off of some antiracism reading lists. I'll probably read her new book that's coming out soon, but my prior assumption is that it's more of the same. I hope to be proven wrong.