I haven’t studied anti-racists in general. I’ve seen some trends I don’t like (setting up prejudice against white people in general and white men in particular, claiming that the pain unprivileged people feel must always trump the pain they cause to privileged people—I get especially suspicious if that’s accompanied by being enthusiastic about eventually getting a demographic win), but I don’t know whether that sort of thing will turn out to be the major result of anti-racism.
I’ve seen some moderation of the excesses I saw during RaceFail (less “Educate yourself!” as educational materials were developed, more realization that allies are useful for talking with people in their own groups who don’t listen to Others, and less of a habit of dumping rage). I honestly don’t know what the long run is going to look like.
The weird thing is, when I posted about “we ought to be in charge!” I was thinking about people who aren’t anti-racists—in fact I very specifically had Nazis in mind for the second bunch, and was just being a bit coy.
The general trend of my thinking (the question was pretty fuzzy at my end, which may explain part of why my comment seems to have been a Rorschach blot) was to wonder whether there’d been a historical shift in the reasons for trying to change hierarchies.
I haven’t studied anti-racists in general. I’ve seen some trends I don’t like (setting up prejudice against white people in general and white men in particular, claiming that the pain unprivileged people feel must always trump the pain they cause to privileged people—I get especially suspicious if that’s accompanied by being enthusiastic about eventually getting a demographic win), but I don’t know whether that sort of thing will turn out to be the major result of anti-racism.
I’ve seen some moderation of the excesses I saw during RaceFail (less “Educate yourself!” as educational materials were developed, more realization that allies are useful for talking with people in their own groups who don’t listen to Others, and less of a habit of dumping rage). I honestly don’t know what the long run is going to look like.
The weird thing is, when I posted about “we ought to be in charge!” I was thinking about people who aren’t anti-racists—in fact I very specifically had Nazis in mind for the second bunch, and was just being a bit coy.
The general trend of my thinking (the question was pretty fuzzy at my end, which may explain part of why my comment seems to have been a Rorschach blot) was to wonder whether there’d been a historical shift in the reasons for trying to change hierarchies.