Posted on 09/26/2023 10:17:20 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
Did you catch that? None of this is really Kendi’s fault, it’s the system, man. If the left wasn’t so driven by fads and celebrity, this wouldn’t have happened. Why wouldn’t it have happened? Because Kendi never would have been given all of that money in the first place. This is the best defense she can come up with. It’s not Kendi’s fault he was unprepared and undisciplined, it’s everyone else’s fault for believing in him.
Come to think of it, this is pretty much the same hokum that is central to Kendi’s own work. His great insight is that all differences in outcome between groups are proof of a systemic problem (racism) which needs to be opposed and rectified. Goldberg has simply applied this thinking to Kendi’s personal failure as a boss and manager. Only instead of blaming the collapse of his antiracism research center on racism she’s blaming something like celebrity culture.
But Goldberg’s readers just aren’t buying it. There are so many good responses here I’m not sure where to begin. Let’s start with the idea that Kendi’s ideas are only seen as failed ideology by people on the right.
“But for the rest of us, it’s important to understand that the center’s apparent implosion is more the result of a failed funding model than a failed ideology.”
It’s the opposite. This isn’t just a failure of implementation. Kendi’s ideas are unpersuasive to those of us on the center-left and even many liberals. We just don’t make much of a fuss about them, because of politeness (or fear), save for people like Michelle’s colleague John McWhorter. To portray it as if only right wingers disagree with his advocated policy solutions is not reflective of attitudes more broadly.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
He is a brilliant grifter who knows how to play white guilt and black rage to make huge amounts of money. He knew exactly what he was doing using the language of the self hating white left. How many more “black empowerment” schemes will people keep falling for? ALL while fighting like hell against school choice for poor black students.
It’s in the best interest of leftists to keep blacks ignorant, angry, but dependent. I wish the blacks would wake up to this fact but I guess the inertia and the freebies are too appealing.
Once again it’s the people’s fault for donating so much money not the grifter’s fault.
The crux of Marxism is to invert the arrow of causality. In the Marxist ideology, individuals do not create a society; society creates individuals.
The individual is responsible for nothing; "society" is responsible for everything.
The individual is worth nothing, therefore individuals are disposable.
As the only thing which matters is the future, perfected, society, any action, including theft, rape, murder, mass murder is fine, if it advances the goal of a perfect future.
In practice, this means "Marxists" have a license to do anything they can convince their colleagues is done to advance their goals. The goals are all destructive.
In practice, this means the most ruthless leaders advance to the top until there is a ruthless dictatorship.
Confusing when the excerpt does not begin at beginning of source article.
Guess they are pissed that they got taken for a ride by a grifting ass.
What did I miss???
What is an ‘ibram kendi’ and what did it do?
bkmk
The 10-second synopsis.
1. A low-tier academic named Henry Rogers rebrands himself as “Ibram X. Kendi”.
2. George Floyd kills himself with fentanyl but the cops get blamed; country burns.
3. Kendi starts promoting a nonsensical theory of what it takes to be “antiracist” - which requires a lot more racism against whites (and Asians).
4. Companies line up to give him millions and Boston University gives him room to start his own research center.
5. Center goes bust with no real research and millions unaccounted for. White leftists at NYT make excuses for him saying he wasn’t ready to take on such a big challenge.
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