(05-06-2021 07:02 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Woke racism is a systemic problem

(Our local SJWs may skip reading this, but if they do read it, I would like their opinions on the policies noted.)




America's woke Left lectures the rest of the population almost daily that racism is evil, and that they are the ones fighting it. Yet, their ugly and racist reactions to Senator Tim Scott's (R-SC) speech demonstrate that the woke Left is no different from the very racists they condemn.

Democrats in Congress wrote a special clause in the "American Rescue Plan," a federal COVID-19 relief package, instructing the secretary of agriculture to provide debt relief to farmers based not on concrete needs but on the color of recipients' skin.

At the local level, Democratic Oakland, California Mayor Libby Schaaf, announced last month that the city would hand out a monthly guaranteed payment to its Black and Indigenous families and other people of color ("BIPOC," as it is commonly referred to). But poor whites who live below the poverty line are not eligible.

According to The New York Times, woke "experts" openly spoke about how letting the older populations who are also whiter die helps "level the playing field." An infectious disease expert at Harvard even argued that teachers weren't essential workers because "they are often very white."


"white supremacy manifests itself in a focus on finding the right answer and demanding students to show their work." For the woke Left, anyone who insists that "2+2=4" is a white supremacist.

But the California Department of Education is moving full-speed ahead to eliminate calculus from high school curricula and cancel all gifted programs for high-achieving students. The movement is driven by the woke Left's crass belief that Asian students are over-represented in those programs, based on statistics such as this: "In California in 2004-2014, 32 percent of Asian American students were in gifted programs, compared with 8 percent of White students, 4 percent of Black students and 3 percent of Latinx students." Canceling gifted programs to prevent Asian kids' domination is the kind of anti-Asian bigotry that the woke Left doesn't want to admit.

The Cambridge Dictionary defines racism as policies and practices that "result in and support an unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others based on race." By this definition, what the woke Left practices is racism. It seems that everything the woke Left does, regardless of its rhetoric, will result in unfair advantage for some and harm for others based solely on race.

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Got half way through before I stopped reading as I checked the source of this claim. From that article:

Quote: “Teachers have middle class salaries, are very often white, and they have college degrees,” he said. “Of course they should be treated better, but they are not among the most mistreated of workers.”

Yea, that clearly doesn’t argue that they are not essential workers because they are white, but the author spins that quote past the point of logic.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes...t.amp.html

The “woke” left often goes too far, and I think we’re starting to see some on the left begin to push back on that. But when an opinion piece contains such a glaring mischaracterization of a quote, it’s trash.

BTW - who are the SJWs on this board? Name calling isn’t exactly a good way to foster honest conversation...