HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Anti-Israel protestor clashes with pro-Israel students at Columbia University.

“I’ll kill your ass, you’re a white f*ggot!”pic.twitter.com/bubSFBzXSM

— MRCTV (@mrctv) April 26, 2024

THE RISE OF “PRESCRIPTIVE RACISM.”

I tell it because I am now a mid-career college professor, and these types of bullies have not gone away. They are now academics and administrators at prestigious universities; they are now running HR departments; they are chief editors of prestigious journals. They are prizewinners for their work in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Once, I committed the sin of saying that knowledge of standard written English may be valuable to all students, regardless of skin color. For this, I endured vitriol. Because standard English came from England and was used by imperialists and slaveholders, I was told, it was inherently racist to teach it to nonwhites. On a now-defunct academic listserv, I was accused of white supremacy, of being unconcerned with how such thoughts, coming from my Black body, were doing harm to other Black people.

These academics would deride me to each other while ignoring my explanations and clarifications. Many who did not participate in these online degradation ceremonies cheered on those who did. For wanting to teach standard English, and for wanting to have a real conversation about its efficacy in American life, I was deemed a pariah.
It was remarkably reminiscent of the bullying I experienced while growing up.

Oh, they were bullied in their youth, too, they’re just savoring the opportunity to turn it around. Plus:

To be clear, I was not being denigrated for simply having a particular outlook; my transgression was having that outlook while Black.

This story illustrates a distinct kind of racism that goes unacknowledged in its particularity. I am describing a kind of racism that more easily masquerades as magnanimity, empathy, and righteousness. I am describing a kind of racism that, often, is unwittingly embraced by its very targets. I am describing “prescriptive racism.”

Read the whole thing.

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SO IS THE FOOD GETTING WORSE, OR IS THE QUALITY CONTROL GETTING BETTER? U.S. food recalls rise to highest level since 2020.

YEP, THE ORIGINAL WOKE:

The original Wokehttps://t.co/s2g8qQqshj

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 25, 2024

Always works out the same unless it’s stopped.

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And probably at the back of the profound decay in our “ruling class.”

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