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I sometimes see this in academics; I like to call this phenomena, "trying so hard to be anti-racist that it comes out as racism."
by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I sometimes see this in academics; I like to call this phenomena, "trying so hard to be anti-racist that it comes out as racism."
- kbelder 4y agoA while ago, Biden announced that he hasn't selected a Supreme Court nominee yet, but that it was going to be a black woman. I felt that was more vile racism than anything I have ever heard come out of Trump's mouth. I was appalled by the blatant racism that would have to thoroughly permeate your world view to allow you to proudly say something like that. But, at the same time, Biden doesn't think he's racist. I believe that he truly despises racism. He's just got himself tied up into conceptual knots and self-contradictory values and beliefs, and rationalizations that he doesn't want to examine too closely. I don't think that's uncommon among academics and intelligent people in general.