http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/09/21/ibram-x-kendi-announces-theres-no-such-thing-as-not-racist-wants-it-eliminated-from-our-vocabulary/
We’re going to get to the New York Times in a minute, but on Monday, “How to Be an Antiracist” author Ibram X. Kendi responded to some tweets about his idea that there’s no such thing as “not racist.” As we’ve said before, there’s a big difference between “black lives matter” and Black Lives Matter, just as there’s a big difference between “not racist” and “anti-racist” — that’s one of the reasons President Trump has moved to eliminate training sessions based on critical race theory from taxpayer-funded government agencies, and why a professor kicked off the semester by having each student admit to their racism.
Here’s Kendi from Monday:
Ibram X. Kendi ~ Actually what I’m saying is we should eliminate the term “not racist” from the human vocabulary. We are either being racist or antiracist. Is that clear for you? There’s no such thing as “not racist.”
Ibram X. Kendi ~ So what does “not racist” mean? The term has no meaning other than denying when one is being racist. We should not have words in the dictionary that don’t have definitions.
No, what IS quite clear is that you wish to arbitrarily control language so that you can define "racist" as ANYTHING you do not personally like. How terribly oh-so-intolerant (i.e., "bigoted") of you, Ibram.
And that’s it in a nutshell, folks.
Andrew Sullivan ~ This dude wants to ban words.
Rich ~ Twitter just gave him $10M to help him on his journey too.
Fact-check: True.
And now let’s move to the New York Times, which reports that protests “against police brutality” are becoming more confrontational and moving into white neighborhoods.
Bari Weiss ~ “It went from a peaceful march, calling out the names, to all of a sudden, bang, ‘How dare you fly the American flag?’ They said take it down. They wouldn’t leave. They said they’re going to come back and burn the house down.”
Some Protests Against Police Brutality Take a More Confrontational Approach
http://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/us/black-lives-matter-protests-tactics.html
Thomas Chatterton Williams ~ First, the lead photo looks 100% "white". Second, always read @NellieBowles:
"demonstrators with bullhorns shout for people to come “out of your house and into the street” and demonstrate their support."
Thomas Chatterton Williams ~ And, you can't make this up: relevant to Kendi's tweets from yesterday about "not racist" needing to be "eliminated" from the "human vocabulary." Look at the degree to which his thinking has shaped the way these activists justify their increasingly confrontational tactics:
“We don’t need allies anymore, we need accomplices.”
Thomas Chatterton Williams ~ They can justify forcing out of your house, or swarming on you at dinner or on your front lawn just because you have an US flag on it, because the world being created is one in which you can't simply be "not racist." You must be actively antiracist *exactly as they define it.*
Thomas Chatterton Williams ~ Sure this is fringe for now, but it's getting major play in the mainstream, and it's pretty nuts, full stop.
Rob Rosenbaum ~ If it's getting major play in the mainstream, it is by definition not fringe.
d00msect ~ It's not fringe, man. This has been building up steam, subverting minds, and seizing institutions for decades. This is the new mainstream.
“Protesters” are now moving into residential neighborhoods and demanding people leave their homes and participate? Where’s that CNN guy with his breakfast burrito to tell us that he doesn’t see any rioting happening from his vantage point in Portland?
Steve Faktor ~ I prefer to think of them as "conFUNtational" protests. What could be more fun than a society where mobs of under-educated goons with daddy issues, appropriate a minority's cause to compel you to give them a semblance of purpose?
The Enlightenment Rocked ~ And these morons think this is going to work why?
BloomStreetBlues ~ Useful idiots.
Kryss Shane ~ This is a familiar battle cry used for ages, not something new or scary but encouraging. Why wouldn't we want an anti-racist society?
Ah, Kryss ... you're sufficiently brain-dead enough to be a full-fledged member of the Further Freedom From Thought Board.
Andre Williamson ~ I guess you missed the video of the guy in his car not doing a convincing enough fist salute, which got his car vandalized.
That was ugly.
So now you know: You can’t be not racist; you’re either anti-racist or you’re a racist.
sunken cathedral ~ It's not a word, it's a phrase. In English we have a thing where you can put the word "not" before any adjective, resulting in a phrase that means "not [adjective]" i.e. "Not in the set of things that are [adjective]." I don't understand how this troubles you so much.
Scott G ~ Like many people in his field, he’s perfectly willing to talk himself into corners like this and stand there obstinately when all of common sense is standing across the room.
Andy Evans ~ "Not" - adverb 1. used with an auxiliary verb or “be” to form the negative. 2. used as a short substitute for a negative clause.
"Racist" - adjective - ... discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or believing that a particular race is superior to another.
KeyClavis ~ "not racist" is actually two words. They both have definitions in the dictionary too. Maybe you should look into how words come together to express concepts that single words either can't or don't convey. Language is a wonderful thing.
We hope all the suburban moms with Black Lives Matter lawn signs enjoy it when the mob comes to their neighborhood in the middle of the night with spotlights and bullhorns.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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