“Yet conservatives, of all people, should recognize compelling arguments for declining to pass a state law that interferes with the prerogatives of local control” @conor64 clearsighted as usual: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
“commentators on the right have spent decades warning about potential and actual excesses of antidiscrimination statutes, and the many ways that they may conflict with other goods, such as 1stA protections, academic freedom, freedom of religious conscience, freedom of expression”
And a shout out to Murray just made my day:
“In an ironic twist, proponents of the North Carolina legislation could argue for its passage by citing these critical race theorists, who argued in Words That Wound that less egregious forms of racism degenerate into more serious forms”
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Essentially child abuse. Hard to imagine anything a genuine white racist could say that would be *more* damaging to the self-image and academic development of a young black child than this:
I can’t even imagine what would have happened if an “educator” tried to say something like this to my black father when I was a student. I feel like the space-time continuum would have ripped.
It's also especially pernicious to pretend that black Americans are somehow not "western," as @NewLiberalsPod pointed out. This was Baldwin's point, and Ellison's and Murrays and many others'. US blacks aren't *really* from elsewhere, in fact they predate most whites here.
Only beginning to read Foucault systematically, but this jumped out at me:
“Nothing in man—not even his body—is sufficiently stable to serve as the basis for self-recognition or for understanding other men.”
Question: For those who have spent time on Foucault, how does a statement like that complicate the common assumption that racial and feminist discourses emphasizing "the body" are derived from his thinking?
People criticize artists for failing to represent their particular lived experiences. I've never seen a movie that encapsulates my own, so I co-wrote a screenplay. Maybe it'll be made, maybe not. I'm not complaining about anyone else. How many of Manuel's critics have even tried?
*Miranda's
Furthermore, it’s not the representation of personal experiences or identity alone that amounts to art or insight. Those are simply starting points, raw materials to be drawn from and transformed through empathy and imagination into something striving for the universal.
Here we go. The struggle will never be over—can never be over—because whiteness will always be redefined:
“The problem is believing that “Latino-ness” presents a worthy “alternative” to U.S. whiteness, when it is simply White hegemony by another name.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Lin-Manuel Miranda is an agent of “white hegemony” now.
Really starting to intuit the logic of the guillotine more and more. You see how deep approval, deference and admiration can flip in an instant against even the likes of Miranda or Adichie and you learn something about the nature (and shortsightedness) of revolutionary fervor.