--You may not be playing motte-and-bailey, but equitism in general thrives on it. (I said before I thought you sounded sincere.)
--Yes, Kendi at times suggests some end-point exists in the way, far, distant future. But elsewhere, his wording and proposals suggest to me that the end-point is mentioned for deniability and nothing more. Kend…
--You may not be playing motte-and-bailey, but equitism in general thrives on it. (I said before I thought you sounded sincere.)
--Yes, Kendi at times suggests some end-point exists in the way, far, distant future. But elsewhere, his wording and proposals suggest to me that the end-point is mentioned for deniability and nothing more. Kendi's end-point is like waiting for The Rapture or End-Times or some such.
--Indeed, as by adjacent Jim Crow quote suggests, I know with my eyes and my heart that horrid discrimination took place and left lingering problems. The question is not whether legitimate grievances exist, but rather whether the proposed solutions make things better or worse. Equitism's "solutions" exacerbate the existing problems--often by reconstructing the very institutions of discrimination that created the problems in the first place and hoping that they'll work better this time around.
--As for solutions, look at the past century of history of America's Jews, Italians, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, etc. All experienced terrible discrimination. All rose to the top through hard work and by not being infantilized by paternalistic do-gooders. Who is the single most highly educated demographic group in America today? It's Nigerian-Americans.
--You may not be playing motte-and-bailey, but equitism in general thrives on it. (I said before I thought you sounded sincere.)
--Yes, Kendi at times suggests some end-point exists in the way, far, distant future. But elsewhere, his wording and proposals suggest to me that the end-point is mentioned for deniability and nothing more. Kendi's end-point is like waiting for The Rapture or End-Times or some such.
--Indeed, as by adjacent Jim Crow quote suggests, I know with my eyes and my heart that horrid discrimination took place and left lingering problems. The question is not whether legitimate grievances exist, but rather whether the proposed solutions make things better or worse. Equitism's "solutions" exacerbate the existing problems--often by reconstructing the very institutions of discrimination that created the problems in the first place and hoping that they'll work better this time around.
--As for solutions, look at the past century of history of America's Jews, Italians, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, etc. All experienced terrible discrimination. All rose to the top through hard work and by not being infantilized by paternalistic do-gooders. Who is the single most highly educated demographic group in America today? It's Nigerian-Americans.
Nigerian immigrants to USA were already in the top percentile across several markers in their country of origin. Same with Indian immigrants.