{"id":30469,"date":"2020-07-20T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-anti-racism-education-sure-looks-awfully-racist\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T02:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T23:55:00","slug":"this-anti-racism-education-sure-looks-awfully-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-anti-racism-education-sure-looks-awfully-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"#This \u2018anti-racism education\u2019 sure looks awfully \u2026 racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#This \u2018anti-racism education\u2019 sure looks awfully \u2026 racist<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n We often hear that what this country needs is an honest conversation about race. Here\u2019s a whole lot of \u201chonesty\u201d for you, from an unexpected place:<\/p>\n

Black people are less likely than white people to be self-reliant. Black people are less likely to emphasize \u201crational linear\u201d and \u201cquantitative\u201d thinking. They are less likely to think that \u201chard work is the key to success.\u201d They believe in punctuality less, and instant gratification more, than whites do. Black people aren\u2019t as likely to believe in a Christian God and more inclined to be tolerant of pagan or polytheistic religions.<\/p>\n

Given that we are living in the age of cancel culture, I\u2019d better explain what I\u2019m doing lest anyone think I believe this nonsense.<\/p>\n

All of this stuff \u2014 the bigotry, the stereotypes and the outright falsehoods \u2014 isn\u2019t my view. Nor did I get it from some white supremacist Web site. Nope, it comes from a graphic sourced and linked to by the \u00adNational Museum of African-American History and Culture.<\/p>\n

The museum\u2019s site has a whole \u201cTalking About Race\u201d section. An article on \u201cwhiteness\u201d cites a graphic titled \u201cAspects and Assumptions of Whiteness and White Culture in the United States.\u201d Much of the stuff from the graphic can be read as an insult to black people if one simply assumes that black people believe in these things less than white people.<\/p>\n

For instance, with the graphic indicating that whiteness and white culture are defined by \u201crespect for authority,\u201d an app<\/a>reciation for \u201cdelayed gratification,\u201d the tendency to \u201cfollow rigid time schedules\u201d and the belief that \u201chard work is the key to success,\u201d the implication is that black people are less defined by these values.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019d be called a racist if I were to take my cues from this list and say, \u201cUnlike white people, black people don\u2019t believe that hard work is key to success.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the other race-based \u00adassertions from 30-year-old research by Judith Katz, a white diversity consultant, aren\u2019t merely bigoted by implication, they\u2019re just wrong. Sure, \u201cChristianity is the norm\u201d for white Americans, though less so every year. But do you know for whom the faith is even more of a norm? Black Americans. And Hispanics.<\/p>\n

According to the Pew Research Center, blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to attend church \u2014 Christian church \u2014 regularly. As for the notion that whites are disproportionately biased against multi-god faiths, I can\u2019t find any evidence for it. Indeed, from what I can tell, most forms of \u00adpaganism and polytheism in America tend to be almost exclusively white phenomena, though data here is pretty hard to come by.<\/p>\n

There is a lot in this that makes me angry, but the worst thing is that this garbage is almost designed to make race relations worse. For instance, Katz\u2019s cheat sheet informs us that a defining norm of white communication is the notion that one should \u201cbe polite.\u201d<\/p>\n

First, I only wish that were more true of white culture. But more \u00adimportant, what in the world is this woman talking about?<\/p>\n

Are good manners not a valuable norm for everybody? After all, manners are simply modes of conduct to show others respect. Good manners and mutual respect reduce the chances for conflict, including violent conflict, in every society \u2014 which is why every society has norms of politeness. Is that really just a white norm that we need less of today? Should white people, in order to shed their privilege, be less polite to anyone? To black people? To immigrants?<\/p>\n

If I were to say to a black friend, never mind a black stranger or co-worker, \u201cLook, I understand your culture doesn\u2019t value punctuality or hard work the way mine does,\u201d would that be better? It would be impolite, to say the least.<\/p>\n

This nonsense works on the assumption that mainstream, bourgeois norms \u2014 hard work, delayed gratification, punctuality, etc. \u2014 have no intrinsic or extrinsic value separate and apart from white culture and white privilege. That\u2019s not only insane, it\u2019s harmful, because it gives people permission to reject these norms as \u201cstructures of oppression\u201d or some similar balderdash.<\/p>\n

Why on earth would you want to tell black people such a thing? Why would you want to tell anybody this stuff, even if it were true?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m all for changing any norms of politeness that make black Americans (or Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, etc.) feel \u00adoppressed or excluded. But I can\u2019t fathom how putting these ideas into action helps do anything of the sort.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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