Running racism in America thread

Does he do ads for a hard liquor company? The WEEI fool is probably going to be on Fox News by tomorrow.

 

It's a great example of government going far out of its way - censorship and book banning - to ensure white kids don't get their feelings hurt.

Why was Rosa Parks kicked out of her seat again?

Race left out of Rosa Parks story in revised weekly lesson text for Florida schools highlights confusion with Florida law | CNN

 

Yes.

Because all the racist revisionist hokum being promulgated by De Santis in Florida and other governments elsewhere, like Texas - and at the local school board level - has the same chilling, self-censoring effect on other publishers and other libraries and librarians and school systems

All of which is in service of protecting the future feelings of white students.

Revising history to suit the sensitivities of white folks seems like the very definition of privilege, doesn't it?

It does.

 

I skipped most of the last two pages, admittedly.

Anyway, we're all born with biases. Those biases aren't from nature. They're nurtured during our childhood and often reinforced when we're young adults.

Race is the near-universal one. The country was founded by white men. Their worldviews were shaped by that reality. I don't care how much of a feminist John Adams was, it was him in the room and not Abigail.

So we're all privileged. Whether it's white privilege, middle-class privilege, privilege because 90 percent of people in journalism nowadays have four-year degrees and are more educated than someone who dropped out in ninth grade... it's privilege.

 

oof

While I agree that the schoolbook erasure of black history may not be the best example of government racism, and that de facto examples of racism in our governments may now outnumber the de jure examples of racism in our governments, the expressions of racism and race preference in and by our government are still pretty stark. Stop-and-frisk is a great example. In theory and law it is race-neutral. In practice and in fact it is as racist as fuck.

The race battles in this country since the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction are still being fought.

www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126619000/voting-rights-act-supreme-court

www.npr.org/2023/02/26/1157248572/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-private-right-of-action-arkansas

 

To your heading off comment, I was more agreeing with you and being critical of Azrael's blanket statement.

And I largely agree with your response to mine. My push back is there is a racist motive to the changes in school curricula even if they don't come out and say "WE ARE BEING RACIST!!!!!" The fact the people who decide on school curricula are worried about making white people feel bad that our country has a racist past so they don't want teachers teaching it is a problem. And teachers in danger of losing jobs as a result, that certainly sniffs of racist.

I respect if you disagree and I don't want to imply anything for it but that is my opinion based on what I think is reasonable.

TL;DR: I agree with you more than others.

 

Alcohol lowers inhibitions. It doesn’t create racism, but it can lower the guardrails that might otherwise keep racism out of public earshot.

 

Takin' it back.

 

The Culture War Bromance of Ron DeSantis and Chris Rufo

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