BLM - Quillette (Page 3)

Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab

The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.

Stuart Reges

29 Sep 2020 · 15 min read

Black Lives Matter and the Mechanics of Conformity

Left unrestrained, they can get completely out of hand. The sudden conformity produced by an availability cascade can result in reflexive demands for urgent government action without any proper discussion or consideration of trade-offs, consequences, or even necessity.

Matthew Blackwell

17 Sep 2020 · 17 min read

Anti-Racist Structuralists and Non-Racist Culturalists

Kendi's view of racism does not begin with people, but with inequity. Which means anti-racism should more truthfully be called anti-racial inequity.

G. Thomas Burgess

13 Sep 2020 · 18 min read

Police Violence and the Rush to Judgment

The time has come for a serious conversation about police brutality, criminal justice reform, and how political polarization prevents progress.

Rav Arora

8 Sep 2020 · 14 min read

Will Corporate Social-Justice Initiatives Be More Than Just a Fad?

What’s different now is that the current strain of social-justice ideology presents itself as a totalizing creed—which means that it isn’t enough for CEOs to accede to the idea of social justice as a mere boundary check on the company’s profit-seeking activities.

David Weitzner

31 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

Exploiting a Woman’s Deadly Fall to Smear Toronto's Police

But instead, progressives such as Singh are far more interested in polluting Twitter with lazy lies and protest applause lines that erase any distinction between policing methods.

Jonathan Kay

30 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

Flannery O'Connor and the Ideological War on Literature

What cancel culture has just mown down isn’t simply Flannery O’Connor or her works, but our ability to view them through any other lens except that of doctrine.

Charlotte Allen

17 Aug 2020 · 13 min read

The Piety of the Impious

The largely ineradicable character of the religious instinct means that it persists, even upon the apparently disenchanted landscapes of modern secular culture.

Scott Buchanan

1 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

Our Oppressive Moment

The Harper’s letter is a declaration intended to resist the poisonous atmosphere suffocating those who don’t enjoy our platforms and profiles.

John McWhorter

29 Jul 2020 · 7 min read

Denunciation Staged as 'Dialogue': A Review of Claudia Rankine's 'Help'

The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.

Nick Comilla

20 Jul 2020 · 8 min read

Policing in the Anomie Era

Over the last 20 years there has been a massive increase in awareness of Indigenous issues in Canada.

Mike Wilson

30 Jun 2020 · 10 min read

White Saviors Need to Leave the Room

We need to have a discussion about racism—including a discussion about what that word means.

Rukhsana Sukhan

17 Jun 2020 · 6 min read

Seattle’s Summer of Love

Their goals are not reformist, they are revolutionary—they seek conflict not peace, and they have given scant thought about what they wish to build from the rubble of what they destroy.

Andrew Gleeson

16 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

America Has Problems. Tearing Down Statues Won't Solve Them

To the extent we all care about the important underlying issues, such as fighting racial discrimination and promoting opportunity to all, we shouldn’t allow our culture wars over statues and symbols to dominate our discourse.

Zaid Jilani

12 Jun 2020 · 9 min read

Racist Police Violence Reconsidered

Blacks are still somewhat more likely than whites to suffer physical and verbal abuse from the cops even when the behavior of the suspect is taken into account. Findings like these contribute to a general sense that cops treat black people as an enemy.

John McWhorter

11 Jun 2020 · 9 min read