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Maybe this is a window into my own politics, but I don't see anything wrong with what this guy did. He saw something happening in society that he disagreed with
by avalys 5y ago
Maybe this is a window into my own politics, but I don't see anything wrong with what this guy did. He saw something happening in society that he disagreed with, but was at first too nebulous to pin down. He was able to pull it together conceptually under one umbrella and give a name to it, and build support to push back against it. Welcome to how the world works. What is the problem, exactly?
You can disagree with his politics and think that telling third-graders to separate into groups by race and then estimate their own racial privilege is something your state-run education system should be doing. I don't mean to debate that. But surely most people would agree that Ben Rufo is free to organize thought and political action against such things, if he wishes, and that he's not being intellectually dishonest by doing so, as the article seems to subtly imply.
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