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What is the narrative of Just America? It sees American society not as mixed and fluid, ever more so through time, but as a fixed hierarchy, like a caste system. (Caste is the title of one of the most popular books of Just America; two others are The New Jim Crow and Stamped from the Beginning.) In the words of William Faulkner, for Just America, “
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Guided by the gospels of “radical longtermism” and “effective altruism” (EA), these newfangled storytellers are devoted to the flourishing of imaginary future people rather than the well-being of the masses right here, right now.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
‘Respectable’ individuals can absolve themselves from individual blame: they would never plant a bomb in a church; they would never stone a black family,” Toure and Hamilton wrote. “But they continue to support political officials and institutions that would and do perpetuate institutionally racist policies.”
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
White skin privilege was not a given here for whites; Pacific Islanders and local Asians, even Japanese Americans, enjoyed authority in civic life.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
I have a good friend who’s one of the seven or eight main editors of a major American newspaper, and he happens to be very much opposed to U.S. policies towards Central America, and towards the arms race, as well as several other things. He tries to craft editorials which will just barely sneak through under the ideological barrier, but will sort o
... See morePeter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
She assumes that criticisms of Social Justice scholarship are simply attempts to deliberately ignore The Truth According to Social Justice. Furthermore, criticism of Social Justice work is immoral and harmful, Bailey tells us: I focus on these ground-holding responses because they are pervasive, tenacious, and bear a strong resemblance to critical-
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Once again, the nation’s most prestigious center of learning would play a pivotal role in race theory.
Nell Irvin Painter • The History of White People
it is too easy to only blame the eugenic systems out there without also examining how our private thoughts and judgments reflect and reproduce a dominant imagination that values specific lives over others. The first, perhaps most difficult, step toward exorcising eugenic ideas from our institutions is by reckoning with the ways that white supremacy
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