Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study
by rayiner on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:32PM
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It doesn't matter if they were voluntary. They were hostile and cult-ish. This was a Zoom meeting attended by hundreds of students, many of them not even American and most likely unfamiliar with how academics are defining those words today. As a non-white person I would have been extremely uncomfortable sitting through that. We can talk about systemic racism and implicit bias without the theatrics and personal confessions of responsibility.
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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study
by danans on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:24PM
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> They were hostile and cult-ish.
Hostile to whom? People who deny the existence of systemic and institutional racism?
> As a non-white person I would have been extremely uncomfortable sitting through that.
Why? I ask because I'm also a non-white person who has sat through just those kind of discussions. They weren't "comfortable" - no introspective discussion of racism is - but they certainly were not hostile because the participants came with charity and a desire to understand themselves and the context better.
The tone of any conversation, defined by the attitudes of those who participate, has a great deal to do with the way people experience it.