Great article Gabriel! "Who" over "what" really helps explain the issues I have with the current social justice orthodoxy.
I'm actually not super "anti-woke" either. I think there's actually some good points that the "intersectional" crowd make on occasion. Like the overused term "privilege". I have white skin. And even though I now …
Great article Gabriel! "Who" over "what" really helps explain the issues I have with the current social justice orthodoxy.
I'm actually not super "anti-woke" either. I think there's actually some good points that the "intersectional" crowd make on occasion. Like the overused term "privilege". I have white skin. And even though I now refuse to racialize myself, thanks in part to people like Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Kmele Foster and the lesser known but always amazing Dr. Sheena Mason (get her to write something FAIR!!), I'll give the woke crowd there due. People assume I'm a college graduate even though I barely got out of high school. Up until recently my "white" skin clearly had a lot to do with that perception. (I'm also well spoken and appear well read). So I'm sure it helped me get jobs and rent apartments. No doubt.
But even though our society has these biases (which are thankfully fading), they don't describe WHO I am. They just describe WHAT I am. I'm a high school graduate. What KIND of high school graduate? Etc, as your acting coach demonstrated. Love it!
Somewhat unrelated, but I need to know which Saturday Night Fever songs make you cry? For me it's "How Deep Is Your Love". One of the first songs I learned on guitar. And one of the most underrated love songs of the 20th Century.
Great article Gabriel! "Who" over "what" really helps explain the issues I have with the current social justice orthodoxy.
I'm actually not super "anti-woke" either. I think there's actually some good points that the "intersectional" crowd make on occasion. Like the overused term "privilege". I have white skin. And even though I now refuse to racialize myself, thanks in part to people like Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Kmele Foster and the lesser known but always amazing Dr. Sheena Mason (get her to write something FAIR!!), I'll give the woke crowd there due. People assume I'm a college graduate even though I barely got out of high school. Up until recently my "white" skin clearly had a lot to do with that perception. (I'm also well spoken and appear well read). So I'm sure it helped me get jobs and rent apartments. No doubt.
But even though our society has these biases (which are thankfully fading), they don't describe WHO I am. They just describe WHAT I am. I'm a high school graduate. What KIND of high school graduate? Etc, as your acting coach demonstrated. Love it!
Somewhat unrelated, but I need to know which Saturday Night Fever songs make you cry? For me it's "How Deep Is Your Love". One of the first songs I learned on guitar. And one of the most underrated love songs of the 20th Century.