‘Ithink I’ve had at least seven books that have been banned in the United States,” says Ibram X Kendi, in a tone that carries no bitterness but stops just short of pride. It’s proof, he says, that his works on racism, which extend from deep, scholarly histories to a biography of Malcolm X for children, are getting through to the right people – and annoying the right people.
The US does not ban books. Therefore this is not true.
According to the writers’ advocacy group PEN America, his books have been banned at least 50 times by multiple US school districts during the tumultuous “anti-woke” backlash of the past five years.
Some school districts have declined to purchase his books. This is not a ban.
This before we get to the loon inside the books:
By extension, he argued that all racial disparities in outcome for Black people were the result of racist policies – not just some, all.
Insane. There’s a difference in the incidence of sickle cell for genetic reasons. This is not a result of racist policies. QED.
Discussing his latest book, Chain of Ideas, 43-year-old Kendi presents another uncompromising binary. “We, as human beings, have two choices in the 21st century: antiracist democracy or racist dictatorship,” he tells me over a video call from his book-lined study at Howard University in Washington DC.
Piffle but grifters gonna grift. Even if that’s from Howard now, not Boston.
“There is almost certainly a likelihood that in 20 years, the better part of Europe, and frankly the world, could be led by racist dictatorships,” he continues. “We’ve gone from monarchy to democracy to dictatorship. We’re literally going backwards. Why? Because we fear people we don’t know.”
Dr. Heinz Kiosk was a satire of course, not a career guide.
He’s also an idiot because of course he is:
But the primary route to enabling antiracist democracy to flourish, he says, is simply improving conditions for people. “Because it is those conditions, and it is people’s own struggles, that are being capitalised on to blame those immigrants, Muslims, Black people, for why those conditions exist. By giving people more, it makes it harder for you to say: ‘You don’t have because others are taking.’” The great replacement theory is a smokescreen for the real causes of poverty and deprivation: neoliberal capitalism and the huge inequalities it has created.
Neoliberal capitalism is the way to have more to spread around, of course.
Yes, it would definitely be better!
…almost certainly a likelihood that…could be…
So there’s a high probability of a possibility that…
I’ve got a book lined study. In fact I’ve got a few boxes of books I don’t have shelf space for yet. I’m obviously being discriminated against.
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Pendantry, I know, but the claim is you need an order of magnitude better argument to refute lies and bullshit.
Yeah…Brandolini’s ‘law’ or adage. But orders of magnitude apply only to scientific or mathematical arguments. If the use is metaphorical, then an image is worth a 1000 words…
“And although many far-right figures would be outraged at the association, the starting point is Nazi Germany.”
Because of course it is.
I’ve been re-reading one of Len Deighton’s finest novels, Winter, set in Germany in the 1920s to 1945. It’s illustrative how closely 1930s Germany resembles the USA under the Democrats and the period under the Uniparty in the UK. So when the Graun spreads some fiction about a sad black grifter lying about his victimhood, they both resemble the people in power in Germany at that time, rather than victims…
…and then, suddenly, for no reason at all, the Germans voted Hitler into power.
Funny how that happens.
Sadly, I fear we will never achieve “antiracist democracy” in our Kendi’s lifetime. After all, that would bring the grift to an end.
I’d prefer a ‘racist’ democracy…
Ibram X Kendi, the black man given some $50m in donations and endowments to his ‘Centre for Antiracist Research’ and had next to nothing to show for it? That guy is still arguing black people should be given more stuff?
By extension, he argued that all racial disparities in outcome for Black people were the result of racist policies – not just some, all.
Or maybe it’s something else? No, it must be white people’s fault…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nigerian-researchers-accidentally-confirm-africas-low-iq-problem
“His bestselling follow-up, 2019’s How to Be an Antiracist, introduced an equally contentious proposition: there was no such thing as “not racist”; you were either racist or anti-racist.”
Thanks for making the decision easy for me.
I’m racist and so is mein katze
That cat has a touch of the tar-brush…
Das reich
Puss, you’re in the way, welcome to Das Boot.
Okay, okay, it’s more of a nudge.
“Multiculturalism, they’re arguing, is destroying ‘indigenous’ white, European cultures. And then they’re arguing that those indigenous European cultures are ‘Christian’, certainly not Muslim. Even though, for about 44,000 years in Europe, people didn’t practise Christianity.”
Oogabooga me just prove you no exist, please gib money
Continuing that argument, for something close to 45,000 years there would not have been any Muslims in Europe either.
It’s not just sickle cell. The ads on prostate cancer on TV tell me that black men are twice as likely to get it as white men.
Haha
Kendi’s message is crystal clear. Blacks CANNOT succeed on their own.
As said by John C Calhoun in 1845 in defense of slavery.
‘It’s proof, he says, that his works on racism, which extend from deep, scholarly histories to a biography of Malcolm X for children, are getting through to the right people – and annoying the right people.’
As two other black professors (Who are worth seeking out on this clown), Glenn Loury (Of Brown) and John Mcwhorter (of Columbia) pont out – this guy isn’t fit to carry the books of real academia. I’d take profound issue with the description of his screeds as ‘deep, scholarly histories’ – the guy is a piece of garbage and one of the US’ most vicious racists.
I think you’ll find that racist white scientists have not bothered to find a cure. Black scientists would have done it but first they have to solve rap.
Racist White Scientists already found the cure in the early 20th century….
It’s called “don’t breed if you have it, or have the gene, so you don’t pass it on to the next generation. “.
Other wise known as “Eugenics”, something the US and Brit academic establishments, and as such the political establishments, were *big* fans of at the time…
The only reason it became Unfashionable was because of the adoption and promotion of the practice by the fans of a certain Austrian ex-orporal with a funny moustache.
Couldn’t be Seen in Public actually supporting it now, after all that, can we?…..
Would be bit of egg on face… So no!!!…*don’t* dig up those old Papers from the Archives.. DON’T!!! ….
Except, of course, the *quite socialist* Swedes….. up to the 1970’s even…
The only thing worse than a centrally planned economy is a centally planned species.
In the specific case of sickle cell, we know that it confers resistance to malaria, but in general biology is very complex, so any attempt to plan the evolution of the species will end very badly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments#United_States
Last book a state government tried to ban was overturned in 1966.
The last thing the federal government tried to ban was 2010 – it was originally banned because it contained classified material that was not re-classified for public release.
That a public school or library chooses not to stock a particular book is what these people conflate with a ban. That these facilities have limited space for books and that some people have issues with the government providing non-age-appropriate materials to children is not a ban.
But like you said – they gotta grift. Its just sick that they think sexually explicit material should be widely available to minors.
Uncompromising binary? What is that? It is clearly a FALSE DICHOTOMY FALLACY. There are obviously more possibilities than the two.
Well yes. Even if the only choices are ‘democracy v dictatorship’ and ‘racist v nonracist’, that still leaves another two alternatives. And of course those are not the only choices anyway.