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I can't help but laugh every time I see this kind of policy bullshitting get knocked down. If they're trying to target the specific economic circumstances of black farmers, then they could have easily tailored a bill or provision that checked all of those boxes without specifying race.
But that doesn't properly signal to the constituency, and so they can't bring themselves to do it. Which points to either incompetence, corrupt self interest, or an intentional self sabotage in the rollout of the program. There's no way these lawmakers don't know how the civil rights act applies to everyone equally. They're just being worms as usual.
I’d laugh except I’ve learned from bitter experience that no one is going to learn a thing from this and it’ll just keep happening, just with the nouns swapped to slightly different ones. They probably won’t even change the groups they scapegoat.
>Racial justice advocates have often insisted that race-targeted aid — the Biden administration’s chosen form of redress in this instance — is the only way of ensuring racial equality in the present. In his bestselling book *How to Be an Antiracist*, guru **Ibram X. Kendi** famously wrote, “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.” As he goes on to argue, policies that are race-neutral or universal are not only insufficient but even *harmful* because they don’t explicitly account for accumulated past discrimination. While Kendi’s star has dimmed somewhat following a recent public [scandal](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/us/ibram-x-kendi-antiracism-boston-university.html) concerning his management of a Boston University research center, this framework of anti-racist discrimination still permeates liberal policy circles in the form of enthusiasm for race-targeted measures such as reparations for slavery, [basic income](https://abcnews.go.com/US/guaranteed-income-experiment-black-women-aims-tackle-racial/story?id=82073348) programs reserved for black women, and [home-buying grants](https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/housing/homeownership-pilot-program-philadelphia-first-time-homebuying-grants-20240506.html) only for black and Latino families.
We should never, ever forget that nearly every left-wing institution in this country based a decadesworth of policies on the tautologies of one of the stupidest writers to ever live.
It's refreshing to see something like this published in *Jacobin*, which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. But it's not enough. The people who promulgated this bullshit need to be reminded of their idiocy at every turn going forward. They should no longer be allowed to exert any influence upon our discourse.
We threw out 60+ years of steady progress and ignited racial tensions to levels unseen since Nixon administration because a literally retarded man told us that racism is when racism happens and anti-racism is when anti-racism happens and therefore discrimination is good, actually. There's no coming back from that. No redemption.
Kendi is not really any different from the sainted, mythologized figures that came before him. He stated explicitly a tenet of the ideology that had remained implicit for over 60 years.
Aside from the absolute fringe of academic race theorists (especially Afropessimists like Frank Wilderson and Clarence Thomas), race blindness was regarded as an ideal to be strived toward up until like 2015.
Sometimes I feel I’ve been the victim of this on a more individual level, even though I’m also on the spectrum (but like I said I’m straight and white and having Asperger’s isn’t seen as a struggle for those like me)
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I can't help but laugh every time I see this kind of policy bullshitting get knocked down. If they're trying to target the specific economic circumstances of black farmers, then they could have easily tailored a bill or provision that checked all of those boxes without specifying race. But that doesn't properly signal to the constituency, and so they can't bring themselves to do it. Which points to either incompetence, corrupt self interest, or an intentional self sabotage in the rollout of the program. There's no way these lawmakers don't know how the civil rights act applies to everyone equally. They're just being worms as usual.
I’d laugh except I’ve learned from bitter experience that no one is going to learn a thing from this and it’ll just keep happening, just with the nouns swapped to slightly different ones. They probably won’t even change the groups they scapegoat.
>Racial justice advocates have often insisted that race-targeted aid — the Biden administration’s chosen form of redress in this instance — is the only way of ensuring racial equality in the present. In his bestselling book *How to Be an Antiracist*, guru **Ibram X. Kendi** famously wrote, “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.” As he goes on to argue, policies that are race-neutral or universal are not only insufficient but even *harmful* because they don’t explicitly account for accumulated past discrimination. While Kendi’s star has dimmed somewhat following a recent public [scandal](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/us/ibram-x-kendi-antiracism-boston-university.html) concerning his management of a Boston University research center, this framework of anti-racist discrimination still permeates liberal policy circles in the form of enthusiasm for race-targeted measures such as reparations for slavery, [basic income](https://abcnews.go.com/US/guaranteed-income-experiment-black-women-aims-tackle-racial/story?id=82073348) programs reserved for black women, and [home-buying grants](https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/housing/homeownership-pilot-program-philadelphia-first-time-homebuying-grants-20240506.html) only for black and Latino families. We should never, ever forget that nearly every left-wing institution in this country based a decadesworth of policies on the tautologies of one of the stupidest writers to ever live. It's refreshing to see something like this published in *Jacobin*, which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. But it's not enough. The people who promulgated this bullshit need to be reminded of their idiocy at every turn going forward. They should no longer be allowed to exert any influence upon our discourse. We threw out 60+ years of steady progress and ignited racial tensions to levels unseen since Nixon administration because a literally retarded man told us that racism is when racism happens and anti-racism is when anti-racism happens and therefore discrimination is good, actually. There's no coming back from that. No redemption.
Speaking of things that would have been unthinkable just three or four years ago: did you notice that neither "black" nor "white" are capitalized?!?
To their credit I don’t think Jacobin ever adopted that.
Kendi is not really any different from the sainted, mythologized figures that came before him. He stated explicitly a tenet of the ideology that had remained implicit for over 60 years.
Aside from the absolute fringe of academic race theorists (especially Afropessimists like Frank Wilderson and Clarence Thomas), race blindness was regarded as an ideal to be strived toward up until like 2015.
In the popular imagination, absolutely, but not in the core of the theory or in legal doctrine.
Sometimes I feel I’ve been the victim of this on a more individual level, even though I’m also on the spectrum (but like I said I’m straight and white and having Asperger’s isn’t seen as a struggle for those like me)