Posted on 02/06/2021 9:43:15 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
“Black Studies” professor Kehinde Andrews of Birmingham City University has denounced the Enlightenment as “little more than White identity politics” and “racist knowledge”.
Andrews, who is Britain’s inaugural professor of “black studies”, made the comments on social media while sharing a link to an interview with the Times Higher Education Supplement discussing his upcoming book, The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World.
“The enlightenment was little more than White identity politics, yet its racist knowledge still underpins university education,” alleged Andrews, who has previously made waves by claiming that “the British Empire did far more harm to the world for a far more sustained period of time” than Nazi Germany, and that the patriotic song Rule, Britannia is “racist propaganda”, among other woke pronouncements.
In the interview itself, Andrews says of Enlightenment thinkers: “the argument has always been that you can separate out their racism from their moral theory. You really can’t!”
German philosopher Immanuel Kant comes in for particular criticism, with Andrew suggesting that his work was underpinned by an assumption that “African people obviously can’t think; white people can.”
Andrews characterises Kant as “essentially arguing that he can write the Critique of Pure Reason and we can have rights [in Europe] because of the superiority of the white race… That’s where you see the Enlightenment principles permeating universities, so you create a space for elite white men to create racist knowledge…”
The enlightenment was little more than White identity politics, yet its racist knowledge still underpins university education. Thanks to @timeshighered for the interview about #TheNewAgeOfEmpirehttps://t.co/0diNGaIYND
— Kehinde Andrews (@kehinde_andrews) February 6, 2021
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Degrees post 1990 are worthless.
Yeah, so?
“This level of dumbassery is simply astounding.”
Yes. He has tenure, he is black, and I won’t go further than the headline. I am not about to read his crap — I am not masochistic.
So he has an affirmative action awarded platform to sound off on and there is no soul around that has the balls to tell him to STFU and go find a sledge hammer and a rock if that is not too far above his abilities.
I wish Walter Williams was around to expose him.
I'd like him to defend as a battle of cultural ideals the tribalism and genocides of Africa, their culture of slavery, justice systems, criminal enterprise and caste systems.
Whatever we might think of British Colonialism, 100+ years later, it helped bring a (near) end to slavery on the continent.
It’s a racket. Ethnic professors can say anything and accuse their critics of racism. Beats working for a living.
I’m not fluent in academia-speak. It’s all jive to me.
“ Only colleges employ people so astoundingly stupid and racist”
Long time Corporate America worker here, Forbes 50 company you’ve definitely heard of.
I assure you, you are incorrect.
Sure seems like black folk harbor a huge resentment for not having a civilization to look back on. Or, the one they look back at is an Africa that has never shed the legacy of eons of brutality, savagery, tribal genocide and slavery that has defined the history of an Africa that they’d rather not acknowledge is theirs.
Make Wakanda Great Again
The irony is that he’s butthurt that tropical African culture gets short shrift for contributing virtually nothing to western civilization beyond labor then sets about to show just how low IQ a tenured somewhat black professor at a major urban public university can actually be
He’s proving true that which he claims isn’t .
Inadvertently I suppose
He’s not pretending to be stupid is he?
The proof that “white racism” is nearly nonexistent comes from our higher universities, mostly in the northeast, midwest, and on the west coast, where, in recent years, there’s been a horde of “racist” incidents, neatly all of them deliberately manufactured anti-white hoaxes. After all, if there were any real “white racism” in those placer, the faculties and students wouldn’t have had to create a whole cottage industry exclusively devoted to manufacturing fake incidents of “white racism.”
This is a result of allowing college for everyone. A minimum IQ should be required for entry into college. You get this goofy nonsense when there are too many college professors that never should have been allowed in to college in the first place.
Blacks never even invented the wheel. Your arguments are irrelevant.
So, where are all the great philosophical treatises written in the 17th-19th centuries by Africans?
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No, didn't think so.
Regards,
But do any of these phony racist incidences get major play in the media after it is discovered that they were hoaxes?
No.
As a consequence they still serve the illusion of a culture of racism
The Left owns the media and the media serves the Leftist agenda of destroying Western (White) Culture which is seen as Capitalist Culture.
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