Another article along those same lines
I do not know who John McWhorter is (and if you plan on giving me schit for this either way, I do not care) , this was sent to me and I thought he had some valid points
https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/the-elect-neoracists-posing-as-antiracists The Third Wave Antiracist is deeply moved, for example, by a conglomeration of tenets which, stated clearly and placed in simple oppositions, translate into nothing whatsoever:
1. When black people say you have
insulted them, apologize with
profound sincerity and guilt.
BUT …
Don’t put black people in a position where
you expect them to forgive you. They
have dealt with too much to be expected to.
2. Don’t assume that all, or even most,
black people like hiphop or are
good dancers and so on. Black
people are a conglomeration of disparate
individuals. “Black
culture” is code for “path-
ological, primitive ghetto people.”
BUT …
Don’t expect black people to assimilate to
“white” social norms because black people
have a culture of their own.
3. Silence about racism is violence.
BUT …
Elevate the voices of the oppressed over
your own.
4. You must strive eternally to
understand the experiences of black
people.
BUT …
You can never understand what it is to
be black, and if you think you do you’re
a racist.
5. Show interest in multiculturalism.
BUT …
Do not culturally appropriate.
What is not your culture is not for you,
and you may not try it or do it.
Yet – if you aren’t nevertheless interested in it,
you are a racist.
6. Support black people in creating
their own spaces and stay out of
them.
BUT …
Seek to have black friends. If you
don’t have any, you’re a racist. And
if you claim any, they’d better be good
friends – in their private spaces you aren’t
allowed in.
7. When whites move away from
black neighborhoods it’s
white flight.
BUT …
When whites move into black
neighborhoods it’s gentrification, even
when they pay black residents generously for their houses.
8. If you’re white and only date
white people you’re a racist.
BUT …
If you’re white and date a black person
you are, if only deep down, exotifying an
“other.”
9. Black people cannot be held
accountable for everything
every black person does.
BUT …
All whites must acknowledge their
personal complicitness in the perdify
throughout history of “whiteness.” 10. Black students must be
admitted to schools via
adjusted grade and test score
standards to ensure a represen-
tative number of them and foster
a diversity of views in classrooms.
BUT …
It is racist to assume a black student
was admitted to a school via racial
preferences, and racist to expect them
to represent the “diverse” view in
classroom discussions.
