{"id":58998,"date":"2022-02-08T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=58998"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:03:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:03:28","slug":"anti-racism-vs-opposing-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2022\/02\/anti-racism-vs-opposing-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"“Anti-Racism” vs. Opposing Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Most people agree that hating, mistreating, or discriminating against people because of their race is morally wrong.\u00a0 But some progressives are trying to co-opt the moral consensus against racism to serve their own ideology, and, in doing so, are distorting it beyond recognition.<\/p>\n

So says Ryan Bangert in a piece he has written for RealClearReligion entitled Racism is Wrong, But \u2018Anti-Racism\u2019 Does Not Belong in Schools.<\/a><\/p>\n

Schools disingenuously deny that they teach \u201cCritical Race Theory,\u201d insisting that what they are really teaching is \u201canti-racism.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThe problem is that \u2018anti-racism\u2019 is a linguistic trick,\u201d says Bangert. \u201cInstead of condemning all forms of racism, it seeks to combat one form of racism with another. By doing so, it only perpetuates racial division and strife, harming everyone.\u201d\u00a0 He then cites two different understandings:<\/p>\n

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In 2007, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts authored an opinion in a case that addressed the legality of plans used by two public school districts to assign students to specific schools. Both schools employed racial quotas to make the assignments. In striking down the quotas, Roberts memorably\u00a0stated<\/a>, \u201cThe way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contrast that to another memorable line, this time from author Ibram X. Kendi. In his 2019 book\u00a0\u201cHow to Be an Antiracist,\u201d Kendi, a well-known scholar and proponent of anti-racism\u00a0ideology,\u00a0opined<\/a>, \u201cThe only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kendi\u2019s version of \u201canti-racism\u201d intentionally perpetuates discrimination\u2013against the white \u201crace,\u201d in favor of the black \u201crace\u201d\u2013even though doing so brings back judging people on racial grounds and keeps alive discrimination on that basis.<\/p>\n

But that kind of \u201canti-racism\u201d goes even further.\u00a0 On the principle of \u201cintersectionality<\/a>,\u201d all \u201coppressed\u201d people are connected and have a common \u201coppressor.\u201d\u00a0 Mr. Bangart, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, is representing parents who are suing Albemarle County Public School in Virginia over its \u201canti-racist\u201d curriculum.\u00a0 He shows how \u201cracism\u201d is broadened out to include opposition to all causes that progressives support:<\/p>\n

The district has indoctrinated staff and students alike in a bizarre understanding of racism and race relations. Staff were told that racism is \u201cthe subordination of people of color by white people.\u201d Students, in turn, were taught that racism is \u201cthe marginalization and\/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, students were told that \u201cpeople who are white, middle class, Christian, and cisgender\u201d comprise a \u201cdominant culture\u201d who \u201cchose the damage and rules,\u201d while \u201cblack, brown, indigenous people of color of the global majority, queer, transgendered, non-binary folx, cisgender women, youth, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist<\/a>, atheist, non-Christian folx, neurodiverse, folx with disabilities, [and] folx living in poverty\u201d were all part of a \u201csubordinate culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anti-racism, then, means fighting against the \u201cdominant culture\u201d by contesting \u201cwhite supremacy, white-dominant culture, and unequal institutions and society.\u201d Some of those racist institutions include such things as believing in \u201ccolorblindness,\u201d \u201cremaining apolitical,\u201d believing there are \u201ctwo sides to every story,\u201d and holding the wrong views on political issues like border security, immigration, criminal justice reform, and school financing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So being a woman is the equivalent of belonging to an oppressed race<\/em>, and, presumably, in this mindset, opposing abortion would constitute racism<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Being transgendered is a race<\/em>, so opposing men identifying as women competing in women\u2019s sports would be racism<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Atheism is a race<\/em>, so arguing for the existence of God would be racism<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is what is being taught in our schools!\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>But a word so stretched and abstracted that it can refer to everything, means nothing.\u00a0 What is left is discrimination based on race.<\/p>\n

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