Sunday, June 6, 2021

‘Nobody Wants White Kids to Feel Bad About Their Race’

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/anastasia-higginbotham-not-my-idea-children-police-killings/619087/ 

She argues that, at the earliest possible age, white kids should be taught to identify whiteness as the root of racial injustice so that they can reject the pervasive racism that they would otherwise embody. I think her account of what causes police killings is too monocausal and that her zeal for uprooting racism sometimes strays into overgeneralization based in racial stereotyping. Regardless, her message that kids can choose to reject racism is laudable, and many school districts find it valuable. What follows is an edited and condensed version of our discussion.

2 comments:

  1. Bovine faeces. Critical Race Theory is about teaching White children that they are intrinsically racist and the sooner they accept that and come to the Woke for instructions on how to be good allies, the better.

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  2. I am involved with some White people who discuss race. It turns out that many are racist precisely because in school they were made to feel bad about being White and then when they get into their teens and discover racist online social media it feels really good just to be themselves and express racist ideas that are rooted in reality.

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