Thanks for your heartfelt, albeit profane, response. You are conflating several things.
First, "being honest about past atrocities" is not the same as exploiting them to magnify and perpetuate group divisions for political or economic advantage.
Saying "we have a terrible, regrettable past of racism and discrimination" is not the same as saying Republicans are "Going to put y'all back in chains." (yes, Biden actually said this and much more).
Please explain how this sort of language will bring races together in our country. How will casually applying terms like "white supremacy" (or "yt supremacy" as you put it) to people you disagree with help us all get along?
To say that the Ottomans, past figures like Milošević, and contemporary politicians use some of the same tactics is not the same as saying they are the same. But I think you already knew that. That being said, here's the seminal Milošević speech:
You can compare the use of divisive and invidious language with Biden's speeches.
No reasonable person is suggesting "everyone to put their fingers in their ears and pretend that racism is solved and would be solved if only we stopped talking about that." What reasonable people are starting to ask is, "How do DEI struggle sessions that promote notions of inherited, collective guilt contribute to racial harmony?"
Do you think it's just a coincidence that anti-Semitism recently became acceptable again, and that Jewish students are being harassed and beleaguered on college campuses? Have you considered the possibility that the DEI promotion of stark ethnic categories, collective guilt, and inherited oppressor/oppressed status helped set the stage for that? Could it be that Jews have been placed high enough on the DEI intersectional ladder that they are fair game for persecution?
There is now plenty of empirical work suggesting that DEI "training" actually increases racial tensions. And there are plenty of historical examples to bolster this. Schools in Rwanda focused relentlessly on past oppression of the Hutus by the Tutsis. Politicians repeatedly played it up, too. The notion of group guilt was cultivated, and animus between groups grew and grew. And we saw how that turned out.
I can give you similar accounts of schools in Sri Lanka and the former Yugoslavia. When I interviewed people there, I found the lessons in their schools weren't that much different from the DEI/racial identity politics being taught in many of our schools.
Thanks for your heartfelt, albeit profane, response. You are conflating several things.
First, "being honest about past atrocities" is not the same as exploiting them to magnify and perpetuate group divisions for political or economic advantage.
Saying "we have a terrible, regrettable past of racism and discrimination" is not the same as saying Republicans are "Going to put y'all back in chains." (yes, Biden actually said this and much more).
Please explain how this sort of language will bring races together in our country. How will casually applying terms like "white supremacy" (or "yt supremacy" as you put it) to people you disagree with help us all get along?
To say that the Ottomans, past figures like Milošević, and contemporary politicians use some of the same tactics is not the same as saying they are the same. But I think you already knew that. That being said, here's the seminal Milošević speech:
https://www.pecat.co.rs/2011/06/govor-slobodana-milosevica-na-gazimestanu-1989-godine/
You can compare the use of divisive and invidious language with Biden's speeches.
No reasonable person is suggesting "everyone to put their fingers in their ears and pretend that racism is solved and would be solved if only we stopped talking about that." What reasonable people are starting to ask is, "How do DEI struggle sessions that promote notions of inherited, collective guilt contribute to racial harmony?"
Do you think it's just a coincidence that anti-Semitism recently became acceptable again, and that Jewish students are being harassed and beleaguered on college campuses? Have you considered the possibility that the DEI promotion of stark ethnic categories, collective guilt, and inherited oppressor/oppressed status helped set the stage for that? Could it be that Jews have been placed high enough on the DEI intersectional ladder that they are fair game for persecution?
There is now plenty of empirical work suggesting that DEI "training" actually increases racial tensions. And there are plenty of historical examples to bolster this. Schools in Rwanda focused relentlessly on past oppression of the Hutus by the Tutsis. Politicians repeatedly played it up, too. The notion of group guilt was cultivated, and animus between groups grew and grew. And we saw how that turned out.
I can give you similar accounts of schools in Sri Lanka and the former Yugoslavia. When I interviewed people there, I found the lessons in their schools weren't that much different from the DEI/racial identity politics being taught in many of our schools.