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this piece is...
it feels like the writer is wrestling with the dissonance of raising a Black daughter and his experiences w/ secondhand antiblack racism... while also clinging to his old ideas abt the kind of ppl who take issue w/ antiblack racism.
bit.ly/2wjVPpS
it feels like the writer is wrestling with the dissonance of raising a Black daughter and his experiences w/ secondhand antiblack racism... while also clinging to his old ideas abt the kind of ppl who take issue w/ antiblack racism.
bit.ly/2wjVPpS
In a real way, that disdain for antiracist politics is going to cut off some useful coping mechanisms and avenues to fellowship that his daughter might very well need to navigate America.
Bc he’s white and hasn’t needed those things doesn’t mean she won’t.
Bc he’s white and hasn’t needed those things doesn’t mean she won’t.
(I don’t even mean formal antiracist institutions and groups. I mean the more quotidian antiracism that comes from being around ppl who aren’t going to tell you you’re crazy when America happens and who will get it and woosah w/ you and have your back when America happens.)
We were just talking about the ways “good liberal white folks” are terrible to talking to their *white* kids about race/racism. This conservative dude who thinks black people complain too much about it is REALLY going to do a number on his Black child. insidehighered.com/news/2018/08/2…
A quick twitter search on that French piece shows that everyone praising it is white. Color me shocked (and then say you can’t see my shock because you, a white person, don’t see color).
Also, having read French a bunch, i wouldn’t trust him to accurately/truthfully convey the shape of antiracist critiques of the premises of transracial adoptive parents.
Like. Is the primary criticism from “the left” that white adoptive parents are virtue signaling?
...Or is it more that they have thought so little abt how race works that they say naive things like “love is what matters/Love should be enough”?
...Or is it more that they have thought so little abt how race works that they say naive things like “love is what matters/Love should be enough”?
Lucy McBath and Sybrina Fulton loved their children fiercely, you know?
Is it a critique of transracial adoption as virtue signaling?
... Or is it like, “you being the parent of a black kid doesn’t suddenly inoculate you from your OWN antiblackness or make you an expert on race”?
... Or is it like, “you being the parent of a black kid doesn’t suddenly inoculate you from your OWN antiblackness or make you an expert on race”?
Alright. Going to the gym.
David French: amp.nationalreview.com/article/451551…
David French: nationalreview.com/2018/08/sarah-…
David French: nationalreview.com/2018/08/mollie…
Critiques of French’s politics in relationship to his adopted Black daughter seem like they prolly have less to do with them finding his “conservatism” distasteful — it’s that one of his projects as a writer is legitimizing imagined white grievances like “status loss.”
If you want to get a sense of why you shouldn’t buy the way *he* frames the arguments of his “critics on the left,”
well...
well...
Anyway, i forget who said it, but it was like “if the first Black person who has sat down at your dinner table is the child you’ve adopted, then you’re not doing right by your kid.”
That’s not an attack on your love for your child. That’s asking you to be real abt some shit.
That’s not an attack on your love for your child. That’s asking you to be real abt some shit.
