I think one way of posing the issue on race is to ask, not whether critical race theory is true, but whether individual race theory is true. IRT is a claim that racism is something that occurs in, and only in, individuals. There is nothing systemic about it. Thus, if a racist cop in Minneapolis kills a black man in a chokehold, he's an individual bad apple, not a symptom of a deeper problem. In the words of the prophet Brian, we're all individuals. So, if I stop using the n-word, if I associate with black people just as readily as I associate with white people, if I don't support segregation, if I see slavery and Jim Crow as part of a regrettable past, if I learn to stop seeing color, then I am free of racism and I'm fine and dandy. It seems that ant-anti-racism pushes this narrative. Tom Horne, the AZ school superintendent, is very explicit about it. Now even if CRT goes off the deep end in some ways, I think they are right in criticizing IRT.
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The answer is anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti racism. I'm anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti-anti CRT and IRT. I'm also anti ANTI.
The whole race-grifters, race-obsessed crowd has become a Samuel Beckett skit.
I'm gonna bet that Victor is secretly a red-eyed, sleep deprived white supremacist. Bet he didn't know. Now he has another sin to confess at the next struggle session in case he was running low. No need to thank me Victor.
So, if I stop using the n-word, if I associate with black people just as readily as I associate with white people, if I don't support segregation, if I see slavery and Jim Crow as part of a regrettable past, if I learn to stop seeing color, then I am free of racism and I'm fine and dandy.
That would certainly make you less racist than those who obsess over race and claim that only white people can be racist.
Bmiller: No, I am not an early riser.
Good to know Victor. But sleeping in alone doesn't mean you're not racist or sexist.
Are you a fan of Sponge Bob Squarepants? Admit it now.
No.
Like your home in the suburbs then?
I can do this all day. And at the end of the day you will still be a privileged white racist regardless of your denials.
We must control Democracy in order to save Democracy.
We ain't seen nothing yet.
What we are seeing now, in the revelations exposing the inner workings of the state-corporate censorship regime, is only the end of the beginning. The United States is still in the earliest stages of a mass mobilization that aims to harness every sector of society under a singular technocratic rule. The mobilization, which began as a response to the supposedly urgent menace of Russian interference, now evolves into a regime of total information control that has arrogated to itself the mission of eradicating abstract dangers such as error, injustice, and harm—a goal worthy only of leaders who believe themselves to be infallible, or comic-book supervillains.
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