The public narrative on race in the United States has become mind-numbingly dumb. One only needs to spend a cursory amount of time on social media to see hot takes from all sides about how the other side is immoral and unethical. It’s the Pee Wee Herman “I know you are but what am I” discourse on race. The key failing is that moral and ethical riders are attached to identities, when identities are morally and ethically neutral. The result of attaching such riders is that activism resembles moral conversion narratives of fundamentalist Christianity with the predictable backlash.
Rittenhouse, Identity, and Process Antiracism
Rittenhouse, Identity, and Process Antiracism
Rittenhouse, Identity, and Process Antiracism
The public narrative on race in the United States has become mind-numbingly dumb. One only needs to spend a cursory amount of time on social media to see hot takes from all sides about how the other side is immoral and unethical. It’s the Pee Wee Herman “I know you are but what am I” discourse on race. The key failing is that moral and ethical riders are attached to identities, when identities are morally and ethically neutral. The result of attaching such riders is that activism resembles moral conversion narratives of fundamentalist Christianity with the predictable backlash.