There is thick social-issue politics, including that of race and gender-bending, within the neoliberal mainstream media. In particular, when it comes to victimization, there are injustices that the said news-media seem to consider, cover or ignore as though those injustices are increasingly ideologically, socially and therefore politically acceptable.
The Western media (news, social and entertainment) can be mostly credited for the creation and maintenance of current racial, sexual and gender social/political standards and even hypocrisies.
For example, anti-Caucasian racism or violence can be expected to not receive coverage by that neo-liberal mainstream news-media, in particular The New York Times and Washington Post, quite unlike when the victim is non-Caucasian. Their justification? Perhaps because they’ve deemed such occurrences as not being a social/societal problem and therefore news that’s un-fit to print.
According to my journalism instructor approximately three decades ago, the probable rarity of such an assault (in this case, anti-Caucasian racism or violence) would largely make it newsworthy; and the opposite would apply to the common or usual occurrence, such as that resulting from a recurring social/societal problem.
Such reporters/editors appear to feel they can be both truly objective/professional AND journalistically activistic. But they cannot.
The colour of our skin tells us nothing of importance today. It tells us something about the natural environment in which our distant ancestors lived and evolved - nothing more. That is the enlightened view of race. People who seek to define people and divide people by race or skin colour, whether they are from the political right or the political left, whether they claim to be 'woke' or not - they're all racists, in my opinion. I wish they would wake up, listen to MLK Jr, throw their critical race theories into the bin and do something useful with their lives.
The INQUISITION inflicted on Ms.Fulani IS racist. Why does this "lady" persist in asking 8 [!!!] times where she is "from" ??? What business is it of hers ? I had the same experience, being asked where from, and "when are you going back home ?". NOTE : I am "white", but had to flee to another European country due to being psychologically, mentally, verbally RAPED by birth giver, who nearly killed me [yes, also physical ab"use", but that was NOTHING compared to the constant screaming and being cursed for 27 years]. It made me feel [and led to me becoming, yet again] very ill. There is NO excuse WHATSOEVER for this pathetic offensive "digging" and insisting one does "not belong". END OF.
Anti-whiteness has been on the rise for a while. As long as any individual holds a space that says one “race” is inferior for any reason, regression is perpetuated.
I am more and more of the opinion that a deliberate turn toward racelessness (race abolitionism is the way.
Well intentioned but could be accused of relativism by using the word blindspots. Anti-white racism exists, has become pervasive and harms people, relationships and communities. The author says so herself. It is not a blindspot. It is a primary intention of the Kendi/DiAngelo school of thought. On the other hand, the critique of the managerial class is bang on target. A generation of cowards, appeasers and traitors to their own community, safe in their middle-class Arts Council huddles.structural faults in a theory or practice are not blindspots, they are structural faults.
I know there is bias and prejudice everywhere irrespective of race, skin colour, creed, religion, sexual preference, etc, and I've seen it first hand in a number of scenarios, and apart from a bizarre comment in a chat forum many years ago that as a "whitey" I was responsible for burning some ethnic minority back in the 1300s, and some loon accusing me of being a racist while I was sat having a coffee with my Jamaican friend, I'd never really experienced what I would call "racism" towards myself.
Move the clock forward 5 years, and it started me thinking when a Bangladeshi colleague who sat on our RACE and EDI panel, completely unprompted and out of the blue said to me one day that he'd realised that off all the groups in our organisation that suffered the most prejudice and disadvantage were "straight, white, middle aged men."
In another role within the same organisation, I was told by my new, and interim boss "As a white male you're going to struggle. As a female and a Muslim I can get away with more than you can."
I really struggled to understand what I was supposed to do with that.
She would comment that when she looked at her senior management team, of which I was one, all she could see was a "sea of white, male faces" (all three of us... more of a puddle than a sea, but I digress).
She didn't like the way I worked. As someone diagnosed ASD I can be blunt and painfully honest. I do ask challenging questions and I expect competent answers. If I don't get them, I'm like a dog with a bone. She was manipulative, deceitful and held grudges, and in my professional opinion, lacked any experience or knowledge of project management (I hesitate to say incompetent as I have to assume she was competent in her regular role).
She even tried to use my daughter's autism in an occupational health assessment to "prove" I was incapable of doing my job (even though I'd effectively been head hunted for the role).
Five months later she had me dismissed for "gross misconduct" based on fabricated stories with not a shred of evidence, but her boss and the organisation as a whole, were terrified of tackling the underlying issue and my concerns, raised repeatedly over many months, went unaddressed and unheeded.
She since moved on, promoted no less, although I hear she lasted only 6 months in that role.
Eventually I was reinstated on appeal, although the nightmare still rumbles on. I was shut down at my back to work interview when told I was suspended pending another investigation, (for something which happened after they sacked me) which has conveniently prevented me from being able to reopen my existing case and clear my name.
If I was a paranoid conspiracy theorist, I might even think this was to prevent my original concerns and how they were dealt with, or rather weren't, rom being reexamined, as it would certainly become uncomfortable for some extremely senior people in the organisation (one of whom is an EDI champion).
So yes racism is a thing, but from personal experience all I can say is that now I very much believe ant-white racism to be reality... and I'm not sure what to do with that.
There is thick social-issue politics, including that of race and gender-bending, within the neoliberal mainstream media. In particular, when it comes to victimization, there are injustices that the said news-media seem to consider, cover or ignore as though those injustices are increasingly ideologically, socially and therefore politically acceptable.
The Western media (news, social and entertainment) can be mostly credited for the creation and maintenance of current racial, sexual and gender social/political standards and even hypocrisies.
For example, anti-Caucasian racism or violence can be expected to not receive coverage by that neo-liberal mainstream news-media, in particular The New York Times and Washington Post, quite unlike when the victim is non-Caucasian. Their justification? Perhaps because they’ve deemed such occurrences as not being a social/societal problem and therefore news that’s un-fit to print.
According to my journalism instructor approximately three decades ago, the probable rarity of such an assault (in this case, anti-Caucasian racism or violence) would largely make it newsworthy; and the opposite would apply to the common or usual occurrence, such as that resulting from a recurring social/societal problem.
Such reporters/editors appear to feel they can be both truly objective/professional AND journalistically activistic. But they cannot.
It's an old saying but still true: two wrongs don't make a right.
The colour of our skin tells us nothing of importance today. It tells us something about the natural environment in which our distant ancestors lived and evolved - nothing more. That is the enlightened view of race. People who seek to define people and divide people by race or skin colour, whether they are from the political right or the political left, whether they claim to be 'woke' or not - they're all racists, in my opinion. I wish they would wake up, listen to MLK Jr, throw their critical race theories into the bin and do something useful with their lives.
The INQUISITION inflicted on Ms.Fulani IS racist. Why does this "lady" persist in asking 8 [!!!] times where she is "from" ??? What business is it of hers ? I had the same experience, being asked where from, and "when are you going back home ?". NOTE : I am "white", but had to flee to another European country due to being psychologically, mentally, verbally RAPED by birth giver, who nearly killed me [yes, also physical ab"use", but that was NOTHING compared to the constant screaming and being cursed for 27 years]. It made me feel [and led to me becoming, yet again] very ill. There is NO excuse WHATSOEVER for this pathetic offensive "digging" and insisting one does "not belong". END OF.
Wherever there is race, racism follows.
Anti-whiteness has been on the rise for a while. As long as any individual holds a space that says one “race” is inferior for any reason, regression is perpetuated.
I am more and more of the opinion that a deliberate turn toward racelessness (race abolitionism is the way.
Well intentioned but could be accused of relativism by using the word blindspots. Anti-white racism exists, has become pervasive and harms people, relationships and communities. The author says so herself. It is not a blindspot. It is a primary intention of the Kendi/DiAngelo school of thought. On the other hand, the critique of the managerial class is bang on target. A generation of cowards, appeasers and traitors to their own community, safe in their middle-class Arts Council huddles.structural faults in a theory or practice are not blindspots, they are structural faults.
I know there is bias and prejudice everywhere irrespective of race, skin colour, creed, religion, sexual preference, etc, and I've seen it first hand in a number of scenarios, and apart from a bizarre comment in a chat forum many years ago that as a "whitey" I was responsible for burning some ethnic minority back in the 1300s, and some loon accusing me of being a racist while I was sat having a coffee with my Jamaican friend, I'd never really experienced what I would call "racism" towards myself.
Move the clock forward 5 years, and it started me thinking when a Bangladeshi colleague who sat on our RACE and EDI panel, completely unprompted and out of the blue said to me one day that he'd realised that off all the groups in our organisation that suffered the most prejudice and disadvantage were "straight, white, middle aged men."
In another role within the same organisation, I was told by my new, and interim boss "As a white male you're going to struggle. As a female and a Muslim I can get away with more than you can."
I really struggled to understand what I was supposed to do with that.
She would comment that when she looked at her senior management team, of which I was one, all she could see was a "sea of white, male faces" (all three of us... more of a puddle than a sea, but I digress).
She didn't like the way I worked. As someone diagnosed ASD I can be blunt and painfully honest. I do ask challenging questions and I expect competent answers. If I don't get them, I'm like a dog with a bone. She was manipulative, deceitful and held grudges, and in my professional opinion, lacked any experience or knowledge of project management (I hesitate to say incompetent as I have to assume she was competent in her regular role).
She even tried to use my daughter's autism in an occupational health assessment to "prove" I was incapable of doing my job (even though I'd effectively been head hunted for the role).
Five months later she had me dismissed for "gross misconduct" based on fabricated stories with not a shred of evidence, but her boss and the organisation as a whole, were terrified of tackling the underlying issue and my concerns, raised repeatedly over many months, went unaddressed and unheeded.
She since moved on, promoted no less, although I hear she lasted only 6 months in that role.
Eventually I was reinstated on appeal, although the nightmare still rumbles on. I was shut down at my back to work interview when told I was suspended pending another investigation, (for something which happened after they sacked me) which has conveniently prevented me from being able to reopen my existing case and clear my name.
If I was a paranoid conspiracy theorist, I might even think this was to prevent my original concerns and how they were dealt with, or rather weren't, rom being reexamined, as it would certainly become uncomfortable for some extremely senior people in the organisation (one of whom is an EDI champion).
So yes racism is a thing, but from personal experience all I can say is that now I very much believe ant-white racism to be reality... and I'm not sure what to do with that.
Excellent explanation and analysis.