Day: January 6, 2024

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Why Claudine Gay Unjustly Came Under Fire I: Her Testimony Before Congress

  By Jew Hatred, White Supremacy and Structural Racism

In the drastically over-simplified world of public media, it’s easy for narratives to take off that bear little relationship to the truth. And it’s very hard for even those of us who are attentive to politics to delve beneath the headlines or whole stories in even our “leading” newspapers to find the truth. I’m sorry I didn’t pay enough attention to the story about the presidents of Harvard and Penn testimony. I’ve now looked more deeply into what former Harvard President Gay said in her written and oral testimony. And there is absolutely nothing objectionable let alone anti-Semitic about it. It was a good statement. In answering Rep. Stefanik’s leading hypothetical question she tried to do what a good teacher and intellectual should do, and point out that words and actions have meaning in context and that any set of words have to be evaluated in their context. That’s the… Continue reading

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Fight Back Against the (Racist) Madness

  By White Supremacy and Structural Racism

It’s very clear now that the criticisms of Claudine Gay is part of a coordinated attack on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs on college campuses and beyond. The focus on DEI is this year’s right-wing racist bullshit, the follow-up to last year’s right-wing racists bullshit criticizing Critical Race Theory. These attacks are the “polite” way for right-winger to gin up racism among white folks who are still not comfortable with the idea of standing in equality with Black people and who can be easily motivated to think that attacking white supremacy means abandoning ideals of universal equality and instead, embracing Black supremacy. This is nonsense. I’m going to write in more detail about this at some point. But for now let me just say that yesterday I started reading a book that purports to provide an intellectual critique of DEI and CRT. It is clear how bogus the books… Continue reading