![]() There’s certainly some material that critics lump in with CRT that strikes me as ridiculous and harmful. My own position is basically anti-anti-critical race theory, in that I disagree with some ideas associated with CRT, especially around limiting speech, but am extremely alarmed by efforts to demonize and ban it. It’s nearly impossible to have a straightforward discussion of the educational content that’s being labeled critical race theory precisely because people like Rufo have succeeded in turning critical race theory into a catchall term for discussions of race that conservatives don’t like. That someone as smart as Linker, author of an essential book on the Catholic right, would analogize communism to critical race theory strikes me as a sign of a moral panic, but leave that aside for a moment. Parents protesting critical race theory, he wrote, “do not want their children taught in state-run and state-funded schools that the country was founded on an ideology of white supremacy in which every white child and family today is invariably complicit regardless of their personal views of their Black fellow citizens.” He compared the anti-anti-critical race theory camp to leftists in the 1950s who, while condemning McCarthyism, dismissed justified concerns about Soviet communism. I think David Roberts is one very high-strung, thin-skinned white liberal dude.In a recent piece in The Week, Damon Linker criticized the left for being what he called “anti-anti-critical race theory,” sidestepping legitimate objections to what he described as a “pernicious” phenomenon. When we’ve finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we’re in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg. In 2006, he blogged this about climate-change deniers: When that doesn’t work, the third instinct is umbrage and aggrievement, perhaps a blog post about how the WLDPS sufferer is the victim of a “witch hunt” by the “politically correct.”Īpologizing is great, but why not just man up, admit you were wrong, express remorse, and move on? What the heck is insufficient about simply saying, “That was wrong of me, and I’m sorry,” and letting that be that? Why the obsessive penitential scouring of one’s navel in search of thoughtcrime?ĭavid Roberts knows a thing or two about punishing thoughtcrime. When that doesn’t work, the second instinct is to mansplain that there was no sexist intent and thus no crime. Thus, the first instinct of the WLDPS sufferer, when confronted, is to be dismissive or cavalier. ![]() ![]() We are not thinking sexist thoughts! Our intentions are pure! We love women! Some of our best friends are black! We are good people, dammit! Very few bouts begin with deliberate sexism or racism or heteronormativity. This is the key first step in a bout of White Dude Privilege Syndrome, especially the specific variant of White Liberal Dude Privilege Syndrome (WLDPS). But he can’t just apologize he puts himself through a Maoist ‘struggle session’ on his blog. Environmental blogger David Roberts, a self-described white liberal dude, tweets a mild sexist insult, gets called on it, regrets it, and apologizes.
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