Comment by jccalhoun

1 year ago

> supplanted by hyper-racist activism in academia

Can you give an example of "hyper-racist activism?"

Sure: Kendi, Ibram X.

  • > Kendi, Ibram X.

    What specifically is "hyper-racist" about him? I read his wikipedia entry and didn't find anything "hyper-racist" about him.

    • I'm just hearing this term for the first time, but let me give it a shot. Racism is bias based on race. In the rural south near me, the racism that I see looks like this: black person gets a few weird looks, and they need to be extra-polite to gain someone's trust. It's not a belief that every single black person shares the foibles of the worst of their race.

      Ibram X Kendi (Real name Henry Rogers), on the other hand, seems to believe that it is impossible for a white person to be good. We are somehow all racist, and all responsible for slavery.

      The latter is simply more racist. The former is simply using race as a data point, which isn't kind or fair, but it is understandable. Kendi's approach is moral judgement based on skin color, with the only way out being perpetual genuflection.

    • > Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!

      - George Wallace, 1963

      > The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.

      - Ibram X. Kendi, 2019