What’s funny about this is that no one has ever mispronounced “Hannah Kim” or “Fred Lee”.
What’s sad about this is the pain and rage these people are professing to feel is real — in the absence of any real adversity their receptors have been reset thusly
Massive investments in bureaucratic oversight went into creating people this fragile
Now imagine a situation in which you are subject to the disciplinary power of the following person.
Now imagining extended that regulatory power across all institutions
Now imagine everyone pretending that this is about “fighting white supremacy and dismantling structural and systemic racism” rather than inculcating and rewarding narcissism. Then you’ll understand where many people are already living and where more are headed.
Mispronouncing a difficult name is not a microaggression. It is not a statement that reveals subtextual racist contempt. It is just a mistake and a reasonable one with zero ill intent 99 percent of the time.
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What percentage of those who heard the phrase "Stop AAPI Hate" knew what "AAPI" means?
If you know what it means, what's the likelihood you are bashing anyone in the street?
Whereas, if you know what it means, what's the likelihood you are working tirelessly to ensure that Asian elders in cities being targeted for vicious assaults...won't get police protection?
Did you know that recognizing and acting in accordance with the value-free operations of pure rationality is "traditionalism"?
Did you know that positing the value-free operation of pure rationality is itself a form of politics deeply complicit in Eurocentric colonial domination and therefore rightly referred to as "whiteness"?
Remember — “institutional neutrality” is code for “fascism”
The dangerous Koch Brothers funded propaganda campaign to attack academic freedom by manufacturing a “campus speech” crisis has made inroads into academe itself — 82 percent of MIT faculty have fallen prey to this moral panic!
Now there is some concern among the hardcore partisans that the monster they've been feeding for a half-decade may consume things other they intended washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…