"This baffles Kendi, for whom the book’s thesis — that 'racist' is not a pejorative identity, like 'evil,' but a descriptive term that should be applied to policies according to whether they shrink or widen racial disparities — is focused on material effects. 'I don’t know how anyone could read any of my books' and think of them as self-help, Kendi says. But the apparent simplicity of its 'this or that' labeling system proved irresistible to institutions eager to virtue signal their way out of fixing inequality. As antiracism became a corporate DEI buzzword, Kendi was excoriated by criticism across the ideological spectrum. Journalist Tyler Austin Harper accused him of peddling 'self-help for white people that runs interference for corporations and wealthy universities.' The conservative strategist Christopher Rufo branded Kendi the chief exponent of 'critical race theory,' the GOP’s bogeyman for the 2022 midterms...."
Does Kendi regard it as "criticism" to be regarded as a leader in "critical race theory"? When did that happen? I should think that would be a point of pride. But no, conservatives have "branded" Kendi!
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Big election coming up. Critical race theory has joined open borders and transgenderism in the 1984 basket of never- happeneds.
Critical Diversity and other inane Theories with transhumane roots.
Kendi maintains...'racist' is not a pejorative identity, like 'evil,' but a descriptive term that should be applied to policies according to whether they shrink or widen racial disparities.
>70% unmarried mothers...widens raical disparities. RACIST!
Great Society Programs leading to a permanent dependant underclass...widens. RACIST!
Affirmative Action Casting doubt on whether POCs earned their positions...widens. RACIST!
Glorifying gang and thug culture of violence, guns and treating women as bitches and hoes...widens. RACIST!
Assimilating into the USA's dominent culture, aka "acting White," including learning and using correct spelling and grammar...shrinks racial disparities. ANTI-RACIST!
You get the picture. Kendi may be on to something.
Dave Begley said...
I submit that Kendi is a racist and extremist.
6/4/24, 8:56 AM
Today I would add grifter.
You mean jive talking hank rogers
This sounds a lot like a story about 'Consequences', doesn't it?
I tried to listen to him in an interview once, and his answers just ran 'round and 'round in circles. I think he has mistaken that gambit for another, where one is a successful bullsh*t artist. But he's not any kind of artist, and as far as I can tell, ain't too successful, either. He is full of sh*t, though.
"Jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow." -- Jive Lady
it deaerves to be judged as grift like its professional grifter creator.
The poster boy for selling complete bullshit for profit.
I remember when he was asked to define "racism" and couldn't do it without using the word racist repeatedly as the audience, who paid to hear him, laughed at him.
Like defining "woman", today's intellectuals are illogical and damned near illiterate. They can't defend their ideas to anyone outside the circle of people with swinging doors protecting their judgment.
As his reputation derives from writing the dumbest and most divisive book of this generation, nothing can ever save him. He should slink away from the limelight and become a real estate agent or something.
As with all the failed DEI figureheads of the era, nothing can redeem the reputation Harvard's cheating Gay, nor KJP the black lesbian press secretary who needed more assistance than Biden himself, nor the Supreme Court Justice who couldn't define "woman" and who now struggles to understand every case put before her.
DEI poisons everything it touches.
Kendi is missing a big opportunity here. The "Antiracist For Dummies" is just begging to be cranked out here.
How To Be an Antiracist given that there's a 15 point difference in average racial IQs, would be an interesting book.
Put that in the mix and you might wind up with a solution.
'critical race theory,' the GOP’s bogeyman for the 2022 midterms...."
Apparently, the bogeyman only becomes a monster when it's noticed.
The best commentary on this war is coming from non-whites, just saying, the most trenchant analysis of the goals of this war, hint: not to help Iranians, the deepest understanding of the reactions of our victims.
It's plainly a racist war. We want their oil, we want control of the Strait to punish China, and we can't be trusting these "brown people" with it, even as their culture and civilization is thousands of years old.
We keep being told that they want to "kill all the Jews" but you know what? There are thousands of Jews living in Iran, who are descendants of refugees from Babylon, 2,500 years ago, and nobody ever killed them, and nobody is killing them now.
""This baffles Kendi ...."
I expect a lot of things do. He has a fairly high IQ, considering, but ...
As with Spock, you can tell an anti-racist from a racist by the goatee.
Yeah. Forget antiracism. We needed to go with White Fragility (aka Confessions of a Liberal White Woman).
That's the ticket!
Jaq--any comment on "Death to America"?
You know that carp we shoveled at you six years ago, here more of it
Whatever you think of Kendi's book/s, you have to admire his ability to fleece white progressives who appear to be mostly morons.
Rogers is derivative of bell and dubois
They are so easy a mark its not even sporting
@Amadeus 48 -- Jaq is trying to be loved by Kendi
That’s his defense? That he was using an extreme pejorative in a unique way, different from how it had ever been used before or since by every other person on the planet and he’s mystified and disappointed that people misunderstood him?
“He should slink away from the limelight and become a real estate agent or something.”
The man has what it takes to be a consultant. No doubt about it.
"Yet today, How to Be an Antiracist is widely remembered as a self-flagellating manual for bleeding hearts."
I’ve never read it, because it’s obviously not for me. I suppose I’m a racist by many criteria, and that doesn’t even make my nose bleed.
> should be applied to policies
> according to whether they shrink
> or widen racial disparities
I completely disagree. The term should be applied, at most, to those policies that are *intended* to have that result.
should be applied to policies according to whether they shrink or widen racial disparities
Wait just a minute there! A policy is racist if it reduces racial disparities!? And also if it increases them. So, basically, “racist” is everything, everywhere, all at once.
Class-disordered ideologies are characterized by adoption of color judgments and class bigotry in bloc theories. #HateLovesAbortion
Would that douglas or booker have been shared
Kendi “branded” himself as a race hustler. He made a lot of money doing so. I really am not interested in hearing him whine.
Gosh, he's not what people say he is. They've misunderstood. And those Goddamn Republicans are pouncing on the issue.
He's just in favor of "inclusivity" and not anti-white at all. He wants to implement policies that reduce racial disparities. LOL. Isn't that what Imperial Japanese and Hitler wanted to do? He just wanted to implement policies that reduces the disparities between the countries of Europe and N. America.
Why don't we "Reduce the disparities" between Jews and Arabs? Or between the billionaires and the middle class? Funny how "reducing the disparities" only works in one way.
I will agree that the Republicans used the issue. And have zero intention of doing anything about DEI. That cant even use straight language that would help their cause. Its not CRT (what is that? A computer monitor?) or DEI - its the anti-white policies. Say it after me, Anti-white.
I always found shallow and nasty but not as much as tennesssee coates
I don't know if the failure of conservatives to use strong clear effective language is due to stupidity or because they're running a grift. But they constantly miss an opportunity to miss an oppportunity. Blathering aboute DEI or CRT just confuses the issue.
IRC, Rufo was once asked by a black host to name some things about white people liked. The black host listed off some things about black folks HE liked. What about you are your race, Mr. Rufo?
And instead of answering the question, Rufo blathered about values and color-blindness. The black host called bullshit.
It cuts on his grift, with the eos that were issued with doge indentified cuts
I try as hard as possible not to upset Mr. Kendi, but I only give him a basis for grievance.
Signed
Just About Everybody
"I just want to say up front that I meant no offense to Mr. Carlson's mother. I wasn't using 'bloodsucker' in a bad way." -- Dr. Johnny Fever, 'WKRP in Cincinnati
People like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Julian Bond, among others, invented the race hustle. Obama and Kendi raised it to an art form.
"..IRC, Rufo was once asked by a black host to name some things about white people (he) liked. The black host listed off some things about black folks HE liked...."
I would struggle to answer that - because I'm not a racist, so I don't tend to classify behaviors along those lines. I'm not saying that to be snotty - it wouldn't occur to me to dwell on it long enough to have those mental arguments in my head. I wouldn't be prepared for it, either.
Maybe, now that I think about it, it's because the world I grew up in was mostly white, say about 80-90%, and we lived in mostly high-trust communities. We had black kids bussed in from the inner city when I was in high school, and it caused no end of virtue signalling by the progressive adults and real problems with drug use for the kids in the school. But any kid would have been able to tell you what had changed when the bussing started, and what caused it.
So it's a good question for the interviewer, but maybe he's a little dishonest, because we've been hammered for years about minority issues, and equally trained to be negative about white culture.
I can understand why someone might stumble on such a question - just as I can completely understand how a person might be completely prepared with their own answer.
Maybe Kendi is just asking questions. Yeah...that's the ticket!
Take it Sam Cooke,
"He's griftin', griftin', griftin' his life away,"
'racist' is not a pejorative identity, like 'evil,' but a descriptive term that should be applied to policies according to whether they shrink or widen racial disparities.
But that's just kicking the moral can down the road. Is widening racial disparities a moral evil or shrinking them a moral good? if not, why should non-blacks care about them?
If critical race theorists are arguing that racial disparities are social failures society should do something to ameliorate, including social & political actions that ask non-blacks to give up some of their (perhaps ill-gotten) gains, then there has to be a moral imperative attached to that call to action. If not, we're sorry black folks, but see ya later!
The Kendi Grift is drying up. Too many race hustlers these days.
At a minimum Rufo should have said stable two parent families. At the extreme he could have said low violent crime rates.
What do you do when you're branded, and you can't reach the roll?
"Republicans pounce!"
"Republicans pounce!"
And seize.
What a ridiculous construction. There's a huge disparity in the murder of black people between the races. By Kendi's lights, white people starting to murder orders of magnitude more black people would be anti-racist by reducing the disparity.
In a universe full of wonder are there any current black scholars that write about anything that isn't black-centric?
Are there any current female scholars that write about anything that isn't female-centric?
I get that Queers only write about Queer Shit, but that's because, in general, I expect less of them.
@Tarrou on crime differences by race:
Crime data has been obscured for decades because the plain truth confirms old stereotypes. Blacks are extremely violent relative to other groups, and Black-on-Black plus Black-on-White violence rates are high. Whites are relatively peaceful, and Asians are extremely peaceful.
The race gap was openly discussed and used to justify segregation into the 1960s -- then it became taboo. Then, propagandistic media outlets pushed an inflammatory "racism" narrative with aggressive distortions of the facts per Rodney King, OJ Simpson, George Floyd, etc.
The last honest and tough-minded Democrat on race relations was future Senator Moynihan circa 1965. He published "The Negro Family, the Case for National Action". After that, the left has resorted shell games, smoke-and-mirrors, denial, projection, and deflection.
The truth hurts.
The “how to” title alone says it is a self help book
Repairing disparate impact has been the basis for a great many horrors from the placement of low income housing to emptying the prisons. There is virtually no action or policy today that isn’t viewed through the lens of how the “minoritized” are impacted compared to the white bois and gurlz.
Yes, that past participle is the anchor noun substitute of the current DEI jargon in universities. It makes your eyes water how non-evil…..(but actually really fucking evil)…whitey is.
- Krumhorn
Yer basic jive ass. Think the “intellectual” character on In Living Color.
I posted before reading. I’m heartened to see the consensus that this creature is indeed a jive ass.
Right, whoever would have thought that a book titled “How to be X” would be a self-help book?
"Who, Me?"
The word “An” in the title makes it abundantly clear that the point was to influence individual behavior through identity. It was a divisive choice.
Diversity Training
Come on-a my house, my house a come on,
I'm going to give you Kendi.
Come on-a my house, my house, a come on,
I'm gonna give you diversity training.
Rufo should have said: "The modern world and everything in it".
The Achievement Gap is real and will never be bridged.
Please stop trying and deal with "them" as reality dictates.
At Kolchak James@735AM--
I don't know your definition of current, but John Morrow of Georgia State U (he may be retired by now) has written well on WWI (World War One: An Imperial History), and Linda Colley (now at Princeton) is wide-ranging in Early Modern history.
Black people and women appear in their books as appropriate, but our sensitivities and sensibilities may differ
on the issue so . . .
My goofy sister in law implored all of the rest of the family via hysterical email to read that ridiculous book sometime during the lockdown. She thinks herself superior because she rejects religion, yet she is captured by all of these leftist religion substitutes. And is a true believer far beyond any zealot, save the radical islamists who she never seems to have anything to say about. Anyway, back to Kendi's book and the family email. I ignored her and asked my then late -teenaged and college kids if they read it. Not a chance, and the three girls are libs (the boy turned out right). That book, like CRT and the so-called anti-racism movement were just farts in the wind.
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