Thanks for your research and response. It doesn’t seem that Trump is a true believer, so I don’t expect apologies from him for past or present sin/ errors. However, his presidency demonstrated in numerous ways, such as personnel and policy choices, that he isn’t racist, or at least much less, NOW. Sadly, the current prez and Trump have racist skeletons in their closet, but neither have confessed.
What makes you think they aren't (other than that you wish they weren't)? As far as I know, he's never apologized for it. Indeed, in the decades since, he was responsible for several infamous racist controversies, including calling for the death penalty for the wrongfully convicted Central Park Five.
We all are to blame for the stupidity of continuing to hate because of the way we look. If we were all blind we would hate because we don't like the way someone else sounds!
Until we all see each other as the human race and love each other for good and bad nothing will change!
You "used to be deeply sympathetic to left-wing racial grievances" but then "endless griping...killed it for" you?
So because you found the people talking about a problem -- which you previously recognized as legitimate -- a bit annoying, you changed your view on whether it was a problem in the first place?
That really doesn't speak well of how you order your beliefs or your heuristic.
I would suggest that as someone who has worked substantially for more than a decade in academia and at nonprofits, and who has written for both the NYT and WaPo, I might have a better experiential handle on the extent to which CRT is routinized in those institutions than a "headphones expert."
I'll also mention that you evidence the same habit as Rufo, which is that you assume any conversation about racism must be evidence of CRT. But the conversation about anti-Muslim bias after 9/11 had nothing to do with CRT. Not even CRT advocates or detractors believe that CRT had made meaningful inroads by the turn of the millennium. For example, it's not until the 2010s that CRT starts to take off in education theory circles.
Thanks for your research and response. It doesn’t seem that Trump is a true believer, so I don’t expect apologies from him for past or present sin/ errors. However, his presidency demonstrated in numerous ways, such as personnel and policy choices, that he isn’t racist, or at least much less, NOW. Sadly, the current prez and Trump have racist skeletons in their closet, but neither have confessed.
It was surprising how quickly Dems were (mostly) willing to overlook Senator Biden's track record of opposing school integration in the 1970s.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bidens-tough-talk-on-1970s-school-desegregation-plan-could-get-new-scrutiny-in-todays-democratic-party/2019/03/07/9115583e-3eb2-11e9-a0d3-1210e58a94cf_story.html
Trump’s election was a victory for minorities and whites. His 1972 rental policies are no longer his ideology.
What makes you think they aren't (other than that you wish they weren't)? As far as I know, he's never apologized for it. Indeed, in the decades since, he was responsible for several infamous racist controversies, including calling for the death penalty for the wrongfully convicted Central Park Five.
We all are to blame for the stupidity of continuing to hate because of the way we look. If we were all blind we would hate because we don't like the way someone else sounds!
Until we all see each other as the human race and love each other for good and bad nothing will change!
You "used to be deeply sympathetic to left-wing racial grievances" but then "endless griping...killed it for" you?
So because you found the people talking about a problem -- which you previously recognized as legitimate -- a bit annoying, you changed your view on whether it was a problem in the first place?
That really doesn't speak well of how you order your beliefs or your heuristic.
I would suggest that as someone who has worked substantially for more than a decade in academia and at nonprofits, and who has written for both the NYT and WaPo, I might have a better experiential handle on the extent to which CRT is routinized in those institutions than a "headphones expert."
I'll also mention that you evidence the same habit as Rufo, which is that you assume any conversation about racism must be evidence of CRT. But the conversation about anti-Muslim bias after 9/11 had nothing to do with CRT. Not even CRT advocates or detractors believe that CRT had made meaningful inroads by the turn of the millennium. For example, it's not until the 2010s that CRT starts to take off in education theory circles.