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A California professor sues over new DEIA performance reviews
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- az226 3y agoNon-paywalled link: https://archive.is/fowYf https://archive.is/fowYf I can see why someone would feel this is an indoctrination they don’t want to participate in: “Persons are either anti-racist or racist. Persons that say they are ‘not a racist’ are in denial of the inequities and racial problems that exist.” Colorblindness “de-emphasizes, or ignores, race and ethnicity, a large part of one’s identity and lived experience.” A suggested synonym is “color-evasiveness” “merit is embedded in the ideology of Whiteness and upholds race-based structural inequality.”
- rayiner 3y agoIt boggles my mind that this obscure, quasi-theological view of race has gained such purchase among supposedly mainstream Americans. Among the myriad problems with this ideology is that it projects the experiences of (some?) black people with race onto a society where the majority of people who are not white are also not black. For example, the passages you quote above use “race” and “ethnicity” as synonyms, but they’re different both in theory and practice.
- opwieurposiu 3y agoCurrent elites think it is vital to keep the equity conversation about race, because it keeps the proles from thinking about class. They have been wildly successful in this regard.
- ddd00001 3y agoNah I don't think it's a conspiracy. I think they genuinely believe race is the most important thing ever and that focusing every facet of public discourse on race is good.
- Zetice 3y agoSure; for one thing, there is no biological concept of race. So we should only be talking about ethnicity and cultures, and not about "race" at all, as it isn't a term with meaning.
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- lotsofpulp 3y agoGood luck defining race, culture, or ethnicity. They are all referring to tribes of nebulous constantly changing characteristics, that people can not only move between, but exist in multiple simultaneously.
- Zetice 3y agoUnfortunately, the racists got there first with their "one drop" policies. As is usually the case, it's the discriminators that set the stage, and the rest of us who have to act out the play.
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- Zetice 3y agoThe thing you have to remember is that race, as a social construct, only exists as a form of oppressive categorization. It's never, historically, been used as merely "identification" or whatever else categorization might be used for in some benign way. It's always a weapon. So yeah, culturally it exists. Biologically it does not exist, however. And I have zero clue why CRT is on your mind here, or why you think it's "reductionist", and in fact would apply to various "white" people through history. Do you think CRT wouldn't apply to the Irish in the 1820s?
- lotsofpulp 3y agoPeople’s eyes would probably gloss over if you start discussing prior probabilities and how everyone uses them for everything (whether rightly or wrongly), and it is an innate part of humans and probably most other animals.
- skissane 3y ago> For example, the passages you quote above use “race” and “ethnicity” as synonyms, but they’re different both in theory and practice. The idea that there is a clear distinction between race and ethnicity is very American. In much (most?) of the rest of the world, there isn’t. The Australian government officially refuses to take a position on what the distinction is - it prefers to just talk about ethnicity; when it acknowledges the concept of race at all, it treats it as roughly equivalent to ethnicity. I think most countries worldwide are closer to Australia on this issue than to the US
- rayiner 3y agoRace as a concept distinct from ethnicity arises out of slavery and segregation.
- skissane 3y ago> Race as a concept distinct from ethnicity arises out of slavery and segregation. Brazil also imported slaves from Africa, but its concepts of “race” have always been quite different - much more fluid - than those of the US. Brazil never had anywhere near as much segregation as the US. Indeed, I think US ideas about “race” weren’t caused by segregation, they pre-existed and caused segregation-Brazil never adopted those policies, despite the shared experience of African slavery, due to having different ideas about “race” from the start And there’s a lot about American ideas of “race” which can’t be explained by either slavery or segregation. I mentioned before the arbitrary boundary between “White” and “Asian”, drawn along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border - that seems to have no logical connection to either
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- Zetice 3y agoNo, what? Literally no one has been fired for saying that alone, and if they have it was wrong and they deserve their job back. Do you, in fact, defend the policy of not firing someone from their job simply for saying, "I am a racist, I dislike <ethnic group>"?
- neonate 3y agohttps://archive.ph/VDNPj https://archive.ph/VDNPj
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- ImAnAmateur 3y agoWhy is the author(s) of this article anonymous? Who is on "The Editorial Board"?
- lp0_on_fire 3y ago"The Editorial Board" in this case is the Wall Street Journal itself. It's relatively common with legacy newspapers.
- ImAnAmateur 3y agoThanks for the answer. Makes sense now. I suppose I've seen such a concept abused too many times by low quality SEO articles.
- peanutcrisis 3y agoYup, you'll find the same notion with the NYT and the WP.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoMost WSJ op-ed pieces are by their editorial board. Almost exclusively partisan chicanery. They write a column almost everyday that exists solely to further GOP talking points and muddy the waters. Some of their columnists are decent, but I immediately second guess anything the board writes.
- peanutcrisis 3y agoHow is that different from WP's and NYT's editorial board, which does the same thing, except for an opposing ideology?
- HDThoreaun 3y agoThey both write far fewer pieces. The times writes maybe one a week for the sunday review. Most of their op-eds are from individuals, and not all of those individuals are partisan shills.
- KerrAvon 3y agoPaywalled, but the article's first sentence is "Critics of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argue he has gone too far in trying to root out 'wokeness', but look to California to see what happens when academic groupthink is left unchecked…", so I think it's safe to assume what follows is typical conservative groupthink.
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- onewheeltom 3y agoAnyone here to discuss the article? Bueller? No surprises.
- onewheeltom 3y agoAn easy read for people like the professor is the graphic novel “March” by John Lewis. Very enlightening. Bought copies for my local high school.
- archagon 3y agoArticle aside, that graphic novel is genuinely fantastic.
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