Thursday, May 6, 2021

It Should Be Called Out Wherever It Is Found

 Katie Pavlich has an article today at Townhall.com in which she points out an Ivy League Professor Slams Identity Politics Education as Useless and 'Criminal'. And the beauty of her article is that it is Brown University professor Glenn Loury who is saying it. This is old fashioned, Democrat KKK style racism. It is not so called 'systemic racism,' a term invented to address the fact that there is no real racism, but race hustlers desperately want there to be. But I especially like Loury's take on his job as a teacher:

"To teach people they are this, is criminal in my opinion, okay? We are to challenge them. They come in telling me that they are this or they are genitalia. That's how they get to me at 18-years-old. They think they are these things. They haven't read anything. They haven't been anywhere. They haven't done anything. I'm a teacher. My job is not to reaffirm them and their preconceptions. It's to challenge them to outgrow them, their preconceptions," Loury said. "We are entrusted to shepherd young minds into their maturity and to jump on a bandwagon and to fill their heads with slogans rather than challenging them with the best that human beings of any color have thought through the ages is a criminal abdication."
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"The presumption that someone who happens to be brown should be exempted from the expectation of performance, patted on the head, rather than guided to the challenge, is racism!" Loury said. "So you want to bandy about the label racism, well then let's get serious about who are the actual racists here. Very few of them are wearing pointy hats and holding bonfires. Most of them, many of them are on the Left."
Loury is saying what I am thinking here. As a white man, there are certain things that can not be rationally discussed. You get the "but you don't understand" treatment. Really? If I get pulled over by the cops, it's because I deserved it but if you get pulled over it's because your are black? If I don't get a promotion it's because the other guy was more qualified, but if you don't get a promotion it's because you are black?  If you think this way, you are a racist too.  These are not situations unique to racial minorities. And no white person, with the exception of Hunter Biden and Hilary Clinton views himself as privileged, and there for can get away with anything, because of being white. This is all ginned up balderdash dressed up in fancy words to make it sound plausible. But it is really just plain old racism.

It should be called out wherever it is found.

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