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Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart - The Atlantic
This is a really interesting read; especially coming from The Atlantic. It's like watching how the left eat their own, because you can never be left enough, ideologically pure enough, or up-to-date on the latest SJW materials.
It reminds me of the "resistance" in the movie Children of Men; on the side of right, until they aren't. Ultimately people are going to destroy one another over social impurity. This article takes you inside the insanity.
The viral youtube video was cued to begin at 42:23, the moment most likely to elicit incredulity. A webcam was tight on the face of Robin Broshi, a middle-aged white woman. She was upset. The edge in her voice sought to explain, to emphasize, to insist, that a wrong had been done.
“It hurts people,” she said, “when they see a white man bouncing a brown baby on their lap and they don’t know the context!”
Wait. What?
“That is harmful!” she continued. “That makes people cry! It makes people log out of our meetings.” The video’s description mentions the “NYC Community Education Council for Manhattan District 2,” which serves more than 60,000 students spread across 121 schools.
I made a series of rapid assumptions about what I was watching. I surmised that Broshi was a college-educated, upper-middle-class progressive who sits on some sort of education council in the public-school system and owns copies of White Fragility and How to Be an Antiracist. I surmised that she was calling someone out. And I surmised that her white, male target was offscreen rolling his eyes. All of which turned out to be correct.
But I also felt confused. Why would a New Yorker in 2020 see an adult holding a baby with a different phenotype and presume something nefarious was afoot? Until recently, I would have expected that sort of retrograde attitude from the alt-right. Beleaguered curiosity prompted me to burrow down an unlikely rabbit hole: extended footage from several NYC Community Education Council District 2 meetings. I wanted to understand what seemed to be the latest confounding addition to the rapidly changing code of elite, “anti-racist” manners.
This is a really interesting read; especially coming from The Atlantic. It's like watching how the left eat their own, because you can never be left enough, ideologically pure enough, or up-to-date on the latest SJW materials.
It reminds me of the "resistance" in the movie Children of Men; on the side of right, until they aren't. Ultimately people are going to destroy one another over social impurity. This article takes you inside the insanity.