👩🏻‍🎓 “Sit in your discomfort.”

It’s a valid concept. When examining a new idea that is counter to our worldview, we can experience discomfort, cognitive dissonance.

A thoughtful person sits in that discomfort & examines the idea. They try to be aware of their prejudices.... & biases and examine that idea while being aware of their prejudices & biases.

But that doesn’t make the idea correct.

That’s where the concept gets abused. That’s where the manipulation begins. The manipulation is twofold:

The scientific method (White Fragility style):

1. Make an observation. (White people are sensitive when talking about race.)
2. Generate a hypothesis. (This is because of White Fragility.)
3. Brainstorm for other explanations. (Not necessary.)... 4. Test your hypothesis. (Not necessary.)
5. Be careful not to insert your biases and untested ideas. (We live in a White Supremacist society, people react this way to protect their privilege, We must decolonize…))
6. Draw a conclusion. (All my untested ideas are right.)...

My first experience with Wokeness was in Austin, Texas in 1988.

I went to university excited to meet the free-thinkers of the world, the professors and students who wanted to discuss ideas and how to improve society.

What I found was . . . . . . a gaggle of angry, mean-spirited, bullying people who wrapped their quasi-religious ideology in the flag of tolerance, inclusion & diversity.

There were no discussions. You either believed – or you were a bad person. End of discussion.

Racism. It's an important subject. It's led to oppression, wars & genocides. We need good scholarship.

For this important subject, Dr. Robin DiAngelo is one of our leading scholars. And when the scholar met her first real-life Black people, when she was in her 30s.

It's an interesting concept.

It's a central tenet of the scholar's ideology.

The scholar doesn't explore the concept in any depth.

Let's explore it for him. . . . 1. “A racist idea is any idea that suggests one racial group is inferior or superior to another racial group in any way.” -- [HTBAA, page 20] ✓

2. “An antiracist idea is any idea that suggests the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences.”

Collective guilt. You are guilty of the sins committed in the past & present by people who looked like you.

🤔The Jews killed Jesus. You are a Jew.
🤔Muslims commit terrorism. You are a Muslim.
🤔Blacks commit more crimes. You are black.
🤔Germans killed Jews. You are a German. I'm not saying it's a bad concept. I'm just thinking about it.

It has been used in racial profiling to justify stopping people on the basis of their race. And for judging people by their group membership.

👩🏻‍🦰 "Sir, my front brakes are squeeking, I think my rear brakes are bad."

🧑🏾‍🔧 "Ma'am. Let's look at your rear brakes first."

👩🏻‍🦰 "You believe you're using Critical Thinking."

🧑🏾‍🔧 "Yes, I think so."

👩🏻‍🦰 "You're not. You're just exerting power."

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👩🏻‍🦰 "You heard me."

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https://twitter.com/PaulSmall4eva/status/1643649374138822656

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👩🏻‍🦰 "I am just interrogating the knower's methods of knowledge production and how they are used to project power and protect epistemic home domain."

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Scholarship. Fascinating stuff. In yellow:

1. If a student disagrees, they are not disagreeing because they are searching for truth. They are disagreeing because they want to exert power in order to perpetuate oppression.
2. Critical thinking is bad..... 3. Critical Thinking won’t... be able to bring about change.
4. People who use critical thinking are just trying to reassert power.

I think I'm being fair here in summarizing the main points. If not, let me know how......

Texas Children’s Hospital Cancer Ward has a policy: All doctors must have a medical degree.

This policy results in inequitable outcomes.*

The Texas Children’s Hospital has a racist policy.

@DrIbram *A disproportionately high number of Asians are receiving medical degrees; a disproportionately low number of whites, Hispanics & Blacks are receiving medical degrees.

Carnegie Hall’s policy of blind-auditions for their orchestra results in inequitable outcomes.

Carnegie Hall’s blind-auditions policy is a racist policy.

@carnegiehall @DrIbram “A racist is one who is supporting a racist policy through their actions or inaction.” – IXK, How to be an Antiracist, page 13.

People who support Carnegie Hall’s auditions policy are racist.

People who don’t take action against Carnegie Hall’s auditions policy are racists.

Modern day "Race Scholarship" contains no science, no methodology, no measurements, no data, no interpretation of data, no hypothesis-testing and scientific skepticism.

It simply consists of making assertions.

Seriously. That’s all there is. I’ve read many of their papers. Like this one. Are there some people who derive glee from depictions of blacks as apes and gorillas?

Of course.

Does the entire "collective" derive glee from depictions of blacks as apes and gorillas?

Scholarship:👩🏻‍🎓🔖

👩🏼‍🦰 "I have idea X."

👨🏻 "I disagree with Idea X. Shall we discuss Idea X?"

👩🏼‍🦰"No. We shall discuss your true hidden motives. You disagree with Idea X because you wish to preserve your privilege."

👨🏾 "I also disagree with Idea X. Can we discuss Idea X?" . . . 👩🏼‍🦰 "No. We shall discuss your rrue hidden motives. You disagree with Idea X because you have Internalized Oppression."

👩🏾‍🦱 "But I also disagree with Idea X."

👩🏼‍🦰 "You disagree with Idea X because you have false consciousness."

👳🏻‍♂️ "But what about Idea X?"

👩🏼‍🦰 "It’s not relevant."

Listening to Professor Applebaum’s interview now and trying to understand these concepts.

There’s definitely something to it. And I'm trying to put it into my own words to see if I understand it.

Anybody care to chime in?

@ConceptualJames

soe.syr.edu/applebaum-inte… 1. Certain people/groups decide what is taught.
2. They don’t teach X.
3. They refuse to give uptake to X.

I don’t know what she means by “uptake”. Will continue listening.

The professor has a fascinating approach to human knowledge.

👩🏼‍🦰 If you don't agree with my ideas, you didn't engage with my ideas. 👩🏼‍🦰 Engaging, understanding and disagreement is not a possibillity. Keep asking questions and searching for clarification until you stop being a 'resister'.

Are you Anti-Capitalist?🤔

Do you believe “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination”?🤔

Do you believe that the only cause of racial disparities in every country is racial discrimination?🤔

No?😮

Then you’re not AntiRacist. Which makes you a Racist.😡 How about ideas?👩🏽‍🦰💡

Do you believe that every idea is Racist or AntiRacist? That there's no such thing as a not-racist idea?🤔

No?😮

Then you're not fulfilling the professor's definition of AntiRacist.🧑🏾‍🎓

Which makes you a racist.😡

The year was 2041, and all racial groups were finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law and equality of opportunity. They were equal in every which way. No group has more successful than any other. No group had more doctors or professors or CEOs or . . . . . . . NFL football players or Mariachi trumpet players. No group made more money or less money than any other group. All this equity was due to the 211th AntiRacist Amendment to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the DOA, the Department of AntiRacism.

In a discussion about race, Amanda says she feels like a punching bag.

What does that mean?

It means that Amanda is trivializing slavery, lynching and genocide...... Yes, Robin DiAngelo's approach to racism is sick. Her book "White Fragility" is the light version of her ideology.

Read her academic articles. Here's a link:

"Getting slammed: White depictions of race discussions as arenas of violence"

robindiangelo.com/wp-content/upl…

Who can be racist?

Only whites can be racist.

Blacks cannot be racist.

Unless the black person internalizes or enacts Whiteness. Then they are racist.

Asians are not People of Color. Asians are white. At best white-adjacent.

So, they're racist as all white people are racist. At least according to Robin DiAngelo.

But according to Henry Rogers (aka Dr. Ibram. X Kendi), all people can be racist if they support a racist policy.

A racist policy is any policy that does not produce equal outcomes.

Which is 99% of policies.

So all people are racist.

If you have ideas that you think should change the world.

But you won’t discuss those ideas, or answer questions about those ideas.

Why should we listen to you?

You don’t listen to us. If you encourage us to have difficult conversations.

But don’t have those conversations.

If you LECTURE about important subjects, but never DISCUSS important subjects.

Why should we listen to you?

Many Woke arguments include mind-reading a person's true intentions.

Even much SJW scholarship uses this tactic.

And often, that mind-reading includes highly emotional true intentions. Here it's being "afraid", and being "terrified".

https://twitter.com/TheMaracleWrker/status/1640062649420374018

There's no other way to respond than to say: No. That's not true.

Notice that we never end up discussing my questions about the ideology.

The conversation has shiften to me, and my true (perhaps hidden, even from myself) true intentions.

A policy against murder?

A racist policy.

A policy against smoking in the hostpial emphysema ward?

A racist policy.

A policy against speeding on the highway?

A racist policy. (The races don't all murder, smoke and speed at exactly the same rates.)