Race and False Hate Crime Narratives
Press reports refer to activists condemning “anti-Asian racism” and fighting anti-Asian “hate.”
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Press reports refer to activists condemning “anti-Asian racism” and fighting anti-Asian “hate.”
One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views.
Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence.
In many cases, therapists will disagree on the cause, as will the patient himself or herself.
Andrews believes none of this. He is right in seeing that the United States is now the world’s foremost imperial nation—it dominated most of the 20th century, assuming the white man’s burden from the British and the French.
The main beneficiaries are more likely to be privileged administrators who burnish their bona fides by filling alumni magazines and email blasts with Indigenous photo-ops.
The central point of contention seems to be between math’s claim to universal truth and the kind of subjective, lived-experience approach embraced by many social justice movements.
Skateboarding is simple and complex, pointless and transformational.
Everyone, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, is free to explore their own spiritual beliefs, of course. But the university is not the place for such exercises.
In A Critique of Anti-Racism, I offer empowerment theory as a framework for anti-racist work, whether it is activism or pedagogy.
If heaven needs to be segregated, what hope does Earth have?
We have to make ourselves equal. No one can do it for us.
The trans argument shows how easily it may be rocked back on its heels. Neither of the two women at loggerheads are transphobic on any but an extreme definition; they merely differ about how easy it should be to register a sex change.
Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.