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Excellent segment - looking forward to the whole.

Norman Finkelstein is a treasure. IMO his new book will be a landmark (yes, acerbic, but with good cause)..

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You disagree with DeSantis’ actions against Disney?

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You know absolutely nothing about me and yet you use all manner of vile accusations against me. I trust one day you will be free of the hatred and bitterness which keeps you in bondage.

That is sincerely meant, for what it’s worth.

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Vacuity spoken in relation to Kendi is an intellectual upgrade. My youngest was assigned "How to be an Anti Racist" and I sttruggled through fewer than one hundred pages and picked up a Dr. Sowell book. PUH LEEZ!

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Guilt hustling of any stripe metastasizes faster in a culture forgetful of (and increasingly hostile to) what, broadly speaking, used to be called Christendom--the only meta-culture in which tolerant pluralism is a well-grounded value. That is, in a re-paganized and re-paganizing society, objective moral guilt festers graceless, repressed inside everyone's conscience, with no place to go to be truly atoned.

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Success! We can end the injustice and get on with life. That is wonderful news.

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Abigail Fisher is a diversion. She brought a case and it was adjudicated against her. I have no idea what point you are trying to make.

College admissions have for many years been predicated on the demonstrated ability of students to succeed in a rigorous academic environment. This has generally been displayed through standardized test taking. The better the scores, the better one’s chance of admission; the hateful meritocratic system. Blacks, on average and for a host of reasons, have not scored as well as other groups and have been admitted, based on merit, at lower rates than their share of population. Affirmative action and the newer Equity movement seeks to change this, not by emphasizing more rigorous preparation of black students but by awarding points for being black or by eliminating objective standards. This is an injustice not only to those students who merited admission but to those black students who predictably fail because of their lack of capacity.

If you are arguing that less qualified white students are being admitted over equally or more qualified white students, you are living in a different universe.

Kind regards.

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I remember a well-meaning, not super-woke white friend on Facebook a few years ago making a casual comment about how 'white supremacy is baked into everything'. I challenged her, but I don't remember what I said. What stuck in my mind was how she bought into that in the first place, *because* she wasn't 'woke'.

Challenging this silliness doesn't mean denying there's any such thing as structural racism, just that we need to identify and call out those who encourage reactionary values and attitudes like Kendi & the rest in the grievance industry (and not just the 'antiracists') encourage. Not a one of them seems to understand how they hold 'their people' back by encouraging a weak belief in one's own powerlessness. For hucksters like Kendi and the rest of the Black Victim Brigade it pays very well - and DiAngelo rides their coattails and does an excellent job of helping white people keep today's black people down by encouraging that sense of victimhood, which kills the spirit of any black person who doesn't have the wealth, education, and privilege Kendi has.

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Scammers gonna scam and hustlers gonna hustle. Grievance is an industry and it was that way before Kendi got on the monetization train. Society is full of mediocrities who are presented as somehow exceptional people. There is nothing exceptional about Henry Rogers. Not his made-up name, not his 'scholarship,' not whatever substance lies in what tries to pass as arguments. Same applies to Robin DiAngelo, who has also cashed in on the grievance gravy train.

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King was 50 years ago.

And more ad hominem.

I wish you well.

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Glenn and Norman nailed in on Ibrahim Kendi. He is a cartoonish fraud and his oeuvre won't pass the test of time. America has a long history of grifters and frauds, and Kendi will join that pantheon. As has always been the case, the most amazing thing about frauds is the gullibility of their audience. Whether what's being peddled is a magic elixir, no-risk high-return investments or white guilt, peoples' ability to suspend the most remote scintilla of common sense remains a head-scratcher.

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So you are justifying injustice. Nice to know. Leftist ethics are certainly different. Pairs well with “by whatever means necessary.”

Your position leaves you with no intellectually honest response to injustice against yourself. It’s just about power. I don’t think that makes for a better world. As I recall, neither did the early civil rights leaders.

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Ok, I’m gonna break down and subscribe this weekend since I’ve made so many comments here.

Finkelstein was a Bernie supporter in 2016. Sanders never made inroads with the bulk of African American voters. Blacks were among those who referred to Sanders supporters as Bernie Bros. Sanders supporters always seemed very willing to throw Black voters under the bus and would say so publicly. Sanders and his supporters were never really trusted. Conservatives will argue that Democrats as a whole will through Black voters under the bus. The thing is that like Sanders supporters, Conservatives will spit in our faces publicly. James Clyburn intervened to help slow down Sanders. Most Black voters were not sad about this.

Like Conservatives, Finkelstein whines about identity politics, something practiced to target white voters for decades, but concerning when applied to Black voters.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/17/identity-politics-history-mark-lilla-215607/

About 20% of Sanders supporters voted for Trump. Finkelstein’s comments about Kendi, et al all are not surprising. To be honest, Kendi is not considered a major figure for most Black voters. We usually get reminded of Kendi when we hear rants from Conservatives and Bernie Bros.

The classic article that brought the identity politics debate front and center was the Mark Lilla piece in the NYT in 2016

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-identity-liberalism.html

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As A White Male

I Always Make It Clear To Women, Black People, Brown People, Asians, Jews, You Name It:

When We Interact ...

That They Are Victims,

And That I Am Their Victimizer.

Spoiler Alert: I Do The Same Thing With White Men.

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HEIL TRUMP !!!

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Brilliant opening paragraph. Screencapping and sharing.

I'm actually starting to break down the damage my natal Anglo-American Yankee culture has done by fostering Wokeism in general. It's not just "white guilt" — it's more complex than that. We don't describe ourselves or our culture, ever, which is part of the whole thing. Much of it has to do with putting all of humanity before us, which John McWhorter has correctly called "well intentioned." The path to this Woke Hell we're has been paved with the good intentions of the Anglo-American establishment. For instance, A.G. Sulzberg at our traditional clarion, The New York Times, has gone so high church with this that he's even publishing an Anglican minister in the Opinion column. He needs to put down the sacrament wine and go to a meeting.

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