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Coleman Hughes
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Deceitful Affairs
It is for minds like Nathan J. Robinson’s that the phrase “a mile wide and an inch deep” was created.
Robinson, founder of Current Affairs, has written a breathtakingly dishonest review of my new book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America. His 4,700-word takedown accuses me of, among other things, “extremely dishonest” manipulation of historical evidence, “intellectual malp
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“The more I have studied disparities in multicultural societies, the more I have found the language of “overrepresentation” and “underrepresentation” to be fundamentally misleading. These words assume that there is something normal or “to be expected” about seeing different ethnic groups represented at precisely their share of the total population in every domain, statistic, and occupation, when in fact nothing is more normal than for different subcultures to specialize in particular sectors and occupations and experience very different group-wide statistics as a result. The vast majority of such disparities are not plausibly explained by bigotry, systemic racism, or unfairness but by demographic and cultural differences between the groups in question at a particular time.”
― The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
― The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
“But how could self-proclaimed “anti-racists” and their supporters be as confused as I’ve made them out to be? And why do so many people continue to be fooled by the “anti-racist” label? The answer: theirs is the latest brand of bigotry to gain social approval in America, and that social approval acts as a buffer that insulates their views from scrutiny.”
― The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
― The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
“Another example of neoracist influence in K–12 public education comes from New York City. In 2018, the NYC Department of Education earmarked $23 million for mandatory “anti-bias” training for the city’s teachers over the course of four years. Leading this charge was chancellor of schools Richard Carranza, whose philosophy has less to do with eliminating actual racism than with eliminating so-called white supremacy culture in schools. In a presentation to top administrators, Carranza called for an end to all aspects of white supremacy, including “a sense of urgency,” “worship of the written word,” “perfectionism,” “individualism,” and “objectivity.” Instead of these false values, he argued that teachers should prioritize non-white values like “the ability to relate to others.” The idea that perfectionism, objectivity, and good grammar belong to white people and shouldn’t be taught to blacks and Hispanics is exactly the kind of idea that leaders of the civil rights movement fought against. There is nothing anti-racist about this idea. It is, at its core, racist.”
― The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
― The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
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