Unpacking Peggy McIntosh's Knapsack Her ‘experiential’ list enumerating the ways in which she benefits from being born with white skin simply confuses racial privilege with the financial advantages she has always been fortunate enough to enjoy. William Ray 29 Aug 2018 · 10 min read
The Problem with ‘White Fragility’ Theory The suggestion that a viewpoint comes from a “racialized frame of reference” is, in fact, an expression of doubt about my ability to be objective. Jonathan Church 24 Aug 2018 · 10 min read
The Rise and Decline of Black Lives Matter: A Toronto Case Study BLM-Toronto arguably was not equipped to handle its own success, as the group had no established source of funding or institutional infrastructure. James Di Fiore 13 Jul 2018 · 12 min read
Racism and Underdetermination by Evidence The Starbucks incident parallels one of the historical cruces of the scientific revolution. James Collin and Anthony Bolos 1 Jun 2018 · 11 min read
The Racism Treadmill If racism still looms large in our social and political lives, then, as one left-wing commentator put it, “progress is debatable.” Coleman Hughes 14 May 2018 · 15 min read
What is a Racist? Why Moral Progress Hinges on Getting the Answer Right We are not arguing that racism has vanished, or that racists don’t exist. We’re making precisely the opposite argument. Jonathan Anomaly / Brian Boutwell 21 Nov 2016 · 5 min read
On the Reality of Race & the Abhorrence of Racism Part II: Human Biodiversity & Its Implications This can be avoided with a moratorium, but then we’re back to square one. This sparks a near infinite regress of bad options. Brian Boutwell 9 Aug 2016 · 12 min read