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purplekimchi

What Should "Racism" Mean? | The Weekly Sift - 1 views

  • It depends on what you think racist means. Conservatives will not only answer the question “No”, they’ll be insulted that you even raised it (and will probably launch into their canned everybody-who-disagrees-with-Obama-is-a-racist-to-you-people riff). That’s because conservatives have adopted a very restricted definition of racism: Racism is conscious hatred towards people of another rac
  • But they can’t look at a black president the same way they looked at the 43 white presidents. Things just look different when Obama does them. What do you call that?
purplekimchi

Colorblind Notion Aside, Colleges Grapple With Racial Tension - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • In the news media and in popular culture, the notion persists that millennials — born after the overt racial debates and divisions that shaped their parents’ lives — are growing up in a colorblind society in which interracial friendships and marriages are commonplace and racism is largely a relic
  • being “postracial” can mean replicating some of the divisions and insensitivity of the past, perhaps more from ignorance than from animus
  • “There’s this preconceived notion that our generation is postracial, but there’s these incidents that happen constantly that disprove that point,
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  • “It’s not a conscious racism. It’s subconscious.”
  • But many others said that failing to account for the reality of race created an unrealistic view of the world
Lari Tanner

Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is | Whatever - 0 views

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    Here's Scalzi's other blog post about the "Straight White Male" it is also mentioned in the article I mentioned in my earlier post. They are both very compelling.
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