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Jesse Singal
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Diversity training and antiracism interventions more generally have been in empirical shambles for awhile, but you often encounter shocking stuff, like the claim that white kids should be told "Race is an essential part of one’s identity." Really bad.

nais.org/magazine/indep…
2/ "White people have certain unfair advantages" is COMPLETELY compatible with "Race should not be seen as an essential part of one's identity." There is some is/ought confusion here.
3/ You can't do a full-court press in which you encourage people to think endlessly about their whitness as a deep and essential part of who they are and then act shocked when a some of them interpret that message in a rather alt-righty way. This is all so potentially misguided.
4/In summation:

Teacher: You are white. Address your whiteness. If you refuse to accept its importance you're a bigot. Think about it. Examine your whiteness. Whiteness whiteness. Your race is essential.

White kid: My white identity is super important to me

Teacher: WHAT??????
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Jesse Singal
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This is a really good example of what I mean about cultural critics writing for a smaller and smaller slice of the population, and making political demands of comedy the majority of even liberals would disagree with

vice.com/en_us/article/…
2/ If you are obsessed with pop culture, believe that it began when you were old enough to be aware of it, and don't follow the nonfictional world much, you'll come to conclusions like "What the South Park guys do matters a lot for real-world political outcomes."
3/ This is what I mean about the complete lack of any historical context and the obsession with pop culture and social media. Basically arguing that in 2000, minorities didn't advocate/had no voice. Now, thanks to social media, they do. Okay.
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Jesse Singal
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Oh no the people who wrote bad articles about Louis CK's recent standup are now writing bad articles about Dave Chappelle's.

It always boils down to "He was always offensive, but he didn't offend groups I feel connected to before."

vice.com/en_us/article/…
2/ Endless iterations of the Onion thing where people laugh uproariously at jokes about the Holocaust/disabled people/religious beliefss/everything else -- then they make fun of a child actress in a ridiculously over-the-top way and everyone needs a fainting couch. Disingenous.
(From 2017, also Vice)

ONE OF DAVE CHAPPELLE'S OLD STANDUP CHARACTERS WAS A FOUL-MOUTHED CRACK-DEALING BABY
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Jesse Singal
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1/ Look at the replies to this, and some of the other stuff going around Twitter, including from bluecheck journalists who have never spent a minute reporting on this issue. Don't agree 100% with framing but clinicians in the US, in good standing w/WPATH, expressed the EXACT SAME
2/ concerns to me while using their full names. Anyone who reports on this issue with the critical eye that should be applied to ANY health/science controversy immediately gets punished for it professionally, has death threats made against them, is told by their fellow journos
3/ they are a bigot, etc. etc. If this turns into the trainwreck it might turn into, please keep in mind who was out here trying to prevent journalists from doing their jobs. Many of the culprits are themselves journalists -- that's what's completely astonishing.
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