☠️ If the "rebuttal" to CRT's "race essentialism" is the notion that race is a social construct, is "abolishing the white race" then just an abolitionist (not racial) practice to decenter Enlightenment values associated with social whiteness? Does this make it less racist? Image
2/In other words, does the excuse justify a revolutionary end goal to transform power to the racialized oppressed via a puritan purge of "white supremacist" ideas such as individualism, hard-work, merit, rationality... ? Isn't associating these ideas with whiteness racist?
3/What if the purge requires attacking fundamental liberal values upon which our civilization was forged, which has clearly been the case with the end goal--a power grab? Intersectionality, social constructs, lived experience... pale in terms of relevance and consequence.
4/Let's reverse engineer: if race is merely a social construct, then color shouldn't really matter if divorced from power structures and ideas. Why don't we substitute "white" with other colors in every line of CRT arguments and see how valid the counter-factuals can stand?
5/To put it even more bluntly, if we can deconstruct whiteness, can we deconstruct "Asian-ness," "blackness," and "Latinx-ness"? IF none of these terms carries any determinist connotations, then there should be no racist institutional structures to battle to begin with.
6/I think I just demonstrated what a Kafka trap is.

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