Posted on 02/24/2021 8:21:00 AM PST by karpov
During the last year, many universities throughout North America have declared “anti-racism” to be their official policy. Consider this sample of quotations.
“We must ask how Princeton can address systemic racism in the world, and we must also ask how to address it within our own community.” —Christopher L. Eisgruber, president, Princeton University.
“The University [of Toronto] is strongly committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and to confronting and eradicating anti-Black racism. Anti-Black racism impacts everyone, and it is our collective responsibility to foster and promote Black inclusion.” —Cheryl Regehr and Kelly Hannah-Moffat, vice presidents, University of Toronto.
“The University of Ottawa reaffirms its commitment to combatting Racism.” —Jacques Frémont, president, University of Ottawa.
I stand against a strong tide, then, when I say that universities should not involve themselves in any anti-racism initiatives at all. It is not the business of a university to combat racism or to call it out or to promote racial justice or harmony.
In fact, enlisting itself in anti-racist struggles cannot but turn a university away from its academic mission.
But surely, one might counter, racism both outside and within the university has hindered the advance of research and prevented students and scholars from reaching their potential. It is the business of a university to promote research and learning and to create conditions under which scholars and students can engage in their academic pursuits pleasantly and productively. Racism, then, affects the university at the heart of its mission. That is why anti-racism is indeed the university’s business.
To respond to that objection, let me remind us that the point of the university as an institution is to protect and promote academic endeavors. The university should use its resources to support the academic mission of investigating, interpreting, and evaluating the things of the world.
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Anyone who identifies themselves as “anti-something” is no better than the thing they claim to be against.
Keep a quick deed with you at all times. When libs start spouting off and lecturing us about white supremacy and racism hand them the quick deed and tell them, in public, to sign their house and car over to the nearest person of color. Libs just want to show us they are superior. Make the PROVE thy are. Make them give away all their stuff to the nearest person of color. They won’t do it off course but maybe it will shut them up. If they are in college shame them into giving up their spot in college to a person of color. They are plenty brave lecturing us about what we have to give up. Shame them into actually doing it.
I have no problem with any organization declaring itself to be “anti-racist”, even though it’s almost nonsensically obvious. It would be like saying “We are against people who push other people down the stairs.” Well, yeah.
The problem, of course, is that these organizations then use “anti-racism” to viciously punish any who is not 100% PC.
It sure would be better if those organizations went for even a little balance, as in: “We are anti-racist. We are also very pro-free speech.”
HJow about you ask how you can provide a student with an education that will actually help them get a job and pursue a life after schooling?
Liberals are not anthracite despite their claims to be. They are the most racist people on earth practically, BOTH towards blacks AND towards whites, despite being mostly white themselves.
They hate themselves,a d project that hatred onto everyone around them, making life as miserable as possible for everyone’s. How much have dems done for the black community over the .ast several Hundred hears? Trump and Republicans have done more for them I. 4 years than the left has done In practically 400.
Trump should have had his people out explaining more how much he was doing for them though. He did during his rallies, but really his people show .d have put k a massive campaign to educate the US about how much he was doing for not just black folks, but all Minority groups. Saturated the airwaves, town hall meetings, congressional districts with the info, special televised meetings with minority communities going around showing how Trump was helping them etc. He couldn’t do it alone, the msm stuffed everything he t
Accomplished into oblivion.
The gop failed hi. Big time
Universities need to spend more time teaching not preaching bogus misinformation.
Are they saying that they're all Left-wing, Woke racists that must be saved from themselves?
I didn’t hear the phrase “systemic racism” until Donald J Trump was elected...
How about because it is hurtful and delegitimizing to those who are “racist.”
The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “anti-racist.” What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an antiracist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an anti-racist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.” The claim of “not racist” neutrality is a mask for racism. This may seem harsh, but it’s important at the outset that we apply one of the core principles of antiracism, which is to return the word “racist” itself back to its proper usage. “Racist” is not—as Richard Spencer argues—a pejorative. It is not the worst word in the English language; it is not the equivalent of a slur. It is descriptive, and the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it."
Source: Kendi, Ibram X., How To Be an Antiracist (p. 9). Random House. Kindle Edition.
Bold emphasis is mine.
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