He/him Black sociologist trying to learn more. Inching even closer to being an Unc (39 currently)
That right there. Their response being to charge him with a felony. That is whiteness.
Los Angeles TimesLAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping
One big one is when we talk about Jim Crow era laws, we don't fully talk about how fucked up many of them were. They had laws against Black couples showing affection for each other and it could be and was sometimes simple things because the point was the violence.
Sanjay SrivastavaWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
Name the devils that are whiteness and white supremacy that are part of the core of this. This isn't just authoritarianism. It is specifically white authoritarianism forged over generations of white complacency, complicity, and active agency in the maintenance of whiteness and white supremacy.
The New RepublicThe right spent years trying to convince us that campus lefties were authoritarians in waiting. But then an actual authoritarian became president. trib.al/roessZA
Correct. Biggest problem is the close proximity to those bigots and white people's desire to still keep being "white." Whether they say it out loud or not, they want to keep the whiteness, and many of them actually understand that whiteness is the issue. So to try and "redeem" whiteness and 1/
Erin BibaAll the time and energy that is being expended by white people convinced that bigots and monsters can be talked out of it *should instead be used to protect people from them*. Put your effort where it can actually help. You can’t convert the bigots. Build a new system that doesn’t include them.