List: Race Reductionism: Antiracism and Critical Race Theory | Curated by Will Shetterly

Mar 13, 2023
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Race Reductionism: Antiracism and Critical Race Theory
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Why Race Reductionists Love a White Woman’s Idea that Racism is Power Plus Prejudice and Ignore…This was Malcolm X’s definition of racism:
Jun 23, 2022
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Jun 23, 2022
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Eight Things More Important to Black People than RacismAnti-racists think racism is the most important problem in America, but only 3% of black people agree with them. That shouldn’t surprise…
Apr 23, 2022
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Apr 23, 2022
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Treating Class Issues as Race Issues Makes Middle-class Blacks Needlessly Afraid and Ignorant…I first saw the consequences of treating class issues as race issues when #BLM focused on black people instead of poor people. Victims of…
Apr 6, 2022
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Apr 6, 2022
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Four Reasons Why Many Anti-racists Are Anti-Semites“Smart and super articulate, Minister Farrakhan is perhaps the best living example of a black man ready, willing and able to ‘tell it like…
Jan 13, 2022
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Jan 13, 2022
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On Forbes, an Anti-racism Trainer Admits I’m Right: Anti-racism Has Been IneffectiveOne of Forbes’ senior contributors, Janice Gassam Asare, begins What People Misunderstand About Anti-Racism Training with this sentence:
Jan 7, 2022
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Jan 7, 2022
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The White Bear Problem Explains Why Anti-racism Training Doesn’t WorkStudies of anti-racism training find it doesn’t work or makes racism worse. The reason seems counter-intuitive to anti-racists: Teaching…
Dec 26, 2021
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Dec 26, 2021
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The Most Foolish Idea Taught by Identitarians like Ibram X. KendiIn How Racism Relies on Arbitrary Hierarchies, Ibram X. Kendi does what the smartest identitarians do: he mixes interesting facts with…
Dec 21, 2021
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Dec 21, 2021
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Religion is a Better Sign of Privilege than RaceIdentitarians think race and gender are the best signs of privilege, so they only mention religion when there’s been a religious hate…
Dec 18, 2021
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Dec 18, 2021
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Why Asians were White, then Yellow, then White-Adjacent, and now are White againIn sixty years, Asian-Americans have gone from being effectively a “gray” race that could marry white or black people when interracial…
Dec 13, 2021
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Dec 13, 2021
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How “Racist” Became Meaningless, or Three Degrees of Anti-Racism“Racist” was coined surprisingly late—the Oxford English Dictionary gives the earliest example in 1919. During the first half of the…
Dec 8, 2021
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Dec 8, 2021
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Why the White Elite Wants to Talk about Race instead of ClassRich white people know they would win a race war and lose a class war. They spout vapid phrases about their white privilege as easily as…
Dec 1, 2021
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Dec 1, 2021
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Why the Black Elite Wants to Talk about Race instead of ClassFocusing on race makes rich black people the heroes of America’s story and costs them nothing. Focusing on class makes them part of the…
Nov 30, 2021
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Nov 30, 2021
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The (Un?)Surprising Classism of Key and PeeleTwo quick admissions:
Oct 26, 2021
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Oct 26, 2021
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“Systemic Racism” Can’t Explain the USA—but Class Mobility CanThe first law of prejudice: The rich look down on the poor.
Oct 22, 2021
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Oct 22, 2021
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Two Kinds of Anti-racists: Identitarian and UniversalistOne school of anti-racism has this creation myth: Derrick Bell, father of Critical Race Theory, picked up the flag of anti-racism from the…
Oct 15, 2021
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Oct 15, 2021
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Disney and the Empty Rituals of Liberal AntiracismI enjoyed Disney’s Aladdin when it came out, so I decided to watch it again. The very first thing I saw were these words:
Oct 7, 2021
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Oct 7, 2021
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No one is denying that racism existsI can’t remember the first time I pointed out the working of our class system in racial exploitation and was told I was denying the reality…
Oct 5, 2021
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Oct 5, 2021
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The Problem with Reparations, and King’s Better SolutionAnyone who knows US history knows black people were treated abominably. Today, as a group, they are almost as poor as Native Americans…
Sep 29, 2021
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Sep 29, 2021
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Mythical Class Reductionists vs. Actual Race Reductionists“If any class-reductionist leftists actually exist they would still be 100 times more helpful to black people than neoliberals.” — Leslie…
Sep 28, 2021
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Sep 28, 2021
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Antiracism has a “Turbulent Priest” Problem—a reply to Tim WiseTim Wise left a comment on Handy Examples of Famous Antiracists Saying or Implying All White People are Racist. When I started to reply, I…
Sep 12, 2021
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Sep 12, 2021
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