So good to hear a dissenting and unpopular voice. This is interesting and informative, thank you. Please continue speaking truth to power whatever the cost!
Yes. What's sad though is that his voice is actually the popular voice - notice the like/dislike ratio. Unfortunately the mainstream media only seems to highlight the unpopular voices right now so they trick people into thinking that's how most people think you know?
I would highly recommend check out Dr Sheena Mason's UA-cam page then. She's doing amazing things with her Theory of Racelessness that uses much of what Erec speaks to here plus much more.
"Anti-racism framed in a theory of empowerment." YES! I'm so glad to have discovered your work Professor Smith. Your expertise and willingness to speak truth is really needed right now. Your words give me hope and help me come to terms with the painful loss of friends I've recently experienced, based on these issues. Thank you
You are losing friends? How can this complicated psychology stuff help anybody mend friendships though. I think anti-racism is ruining relationships. It's not healthy whatever it is.
I'm so glad to hear you return to "logical fallacies." I used to teach a dozen or more logical fallacies in composition courses and they always met with a collective rolling of the eyes. Decades went by and "logical fallacies" gave way to "personal expression" as the basis of composition. Now, in this postmodern age, all the logical fallacies appear in "social justice" speech, no fallacy being omitted. It's as if those old-fashioned modernist lists of fallacies, which we were meant to avoid, now serve as a handbook of how to think and what to write, say, and do.
You are not wrong. I feel like this entire last year was a refresher course from debate and geometry classes. Or a new game show: “Can You Catch the Invalid Inference?”
This is exceptionally good, and jives with the parenting philosophy of many immigrant parents whose children find success despite some degree of disadvantage.
Yes! I'm a Refugee in the US whose parents couldn't speak English, have elementary school educations and were able to own successful businesses in South Florida. Decades later their PNW is higher than most US born individuals- hard work and living within their budget created generational wealth. No time for victimhood when you have little kids to feed!!
@@juana7035 Me too. Both parents were in their mid 30s zero English, zero education...my mother didn't finish middle school and my father didn't finish HS. Bought two houses and gave my brother and I every chance to make a better life for ourselves...which we did.
You have NO IDEA how nice it is to hear someone such as yourself who is black and who has an academic background of a discipline applicable to our current race situation. A number of the thoughts and ideas that you have shared are conclusions I have come to myself as a white person who is NOT an academic in this area. Thank you again. I have subscribed and will be listening to probably almost everything you put out just like I do with Thomas Sowell, Colemn Hughs, John Mcwhorter and Glenn Lowry, amongst others. 🙏🏻
@@just_another32 MJ's "Black or White" is about racial tolerance, which implies that racial intolerance exists. Therefore, thinking critically about how racism plays apart in our society seems to be a logical progression.
@@just_another32 I liked what you said :) that smooth brain can go play in the corner by himself/themself. Anyways the Professor's video is amazing and makes me feel a lot better about the world and less crazy for coming to some of the same concussions.
If it hasn’t happened yet, I’d love to see a conversation between Erec and Peter Begossian on Parrhesia. They are both advocating for it, and it’s so important. So many of us are scared to bring in good faith inquiry for fear of being shut down and demonized.
“I’m not here to make enemies, but I’m not necessarily here to make friends either” Well taken. Rescue what kernel of truth is embedded in the anti racism pedagogy (perhaps rebrand it?) and dispatch with the dogmatic excesses. This country needs your voice and the unbridled truth. This must have taken a lot of courage. Thank you
It's wonderful to see a person in academia pushing back against some really bad ideas that have become so prevalent. So many professors seem to be indoctrinating rather that teaching critical thinking. Thank you for shedding some light on how differently whites and blacks identify. .
Glad I just found this! Had no idea Heterodox Academy has a You Tube channel! I’ve seen Erec speak before. I studied rhetoric in all its forms in grad school many, many moons ago. But it equipped me to have a successful career in policy and fundraising.
They used to call them “The Four R’s,” which has been cheapened to “The Three R’s.” Wow, thank God you are bringing back Rhetoric. I saw you on NBC News and love your approach. I embrace All and know things were worse and need to improve. This discord we’re having could spiral into the same violence and self-oppression as Post-Apartheid South Africa has had. My Ancestor, Robert Dakin, fought from Boston to Yorktown , VA with the Pennsylvania troops of George Washington’s army who were at Cornwallis’s surrender there. After the Revolution he returned to York. Glad to see such a Wiseman in Academics there, a great Professor of Rhetoric. Thanks.
I DEEPLY appreciate this approach, especially because Dr. Smith makes (deserved) note of CRT's positive contributions. I am a scholar in the field of Education, and some of the best histories to do with race and its effect on history have been written from CRT perspectives. I share Dr. Smith's worry that CRT has potential to overstep the norms of healthy discourse and even to backfire relative to its generally stated goals of weakening racism. But I also worry that our contemporary culture has this "either laud or wholly reject" stance toward CRT and toward folks like Ibram X. Kendi. I am REALLY glad to see some voices that come from that lonely middle position. Thanks, Dr. Smith!
there is so much so to digest here. Bravo. Will actually need to watch/listen twice to absorb all points...a transcript would be helpful- perhaps I need to get his book. while I'm not a Marxist finely tuned
This was amazing, thank you so much for your great insight! My hope is that it cause more profound thought in these matters and stirs courage for discussion and civil discourse. Thanks again!
Language is being used to obfuscate not to clarify! This has always been a hallmark of academia. But it is now totally out of hand. It’s what grifters do.
Yeah I know; I watched the first two minutes of this vid and I came to the same conclusion. Brother likes the sound of his own voice and the smell of his own farts.
@@RandsomeHam Translation: “this guy is talking above my comprehension level, therefore, I’ll just dismiss him with a ‘clever’ quip to make myself feel better about my own ignorance”
@@matthewreeves6084 I see your Rosetta Stone was broken so you went for a projector instead. Your man is selling the same onanistic, self-aggrandizing drivel Thomas Sowell was only somehow less thought out. I address it at length in another comment as a reply to the vid itself, the gist of which was to point out that his argument is informed by and rationalized through value judgments and moralistic grandstanding both of which could be flipped and used _against_ his argument.
i never heard of this kind of teaching. finally i have a word for it that is not ''get over yourself'' or ''get into the real world'' because it sound a lot more mean than i actually want to be.
Book marking his book for when I can afford to spend $90 again after the pandemic. Seems like it’s got interesting and useful ideas. I plan on working with kids and families that have experienced trauma and the empowerment theory model seems like a positive framework to apply. I myself went through years of abuse growing up and I think this theory really applies to how I broke the cycle and gained a sense of control. Very thought provoking!
Can I clone you? Can I rent space in your brilliant mind? I'm subscribing, I can learn so much from you. Thank you. The US needs more strong, intelligent men like you, we have a deficit right now.
I'm sure there are a lot of professors who feel this way, however, they're afraid to speak up OR if they do they are swept under the rug; their voices silenced.
Thank you for this late Birthday present!! (I thought it was just me .I used the term: multi-colored-white-people way back in the early 90's)... A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment - probably the most expensive book I have seen on Amazon in a long time - but after that analysis you just provided, am probably going to buy it for sure. Empowerment Theory sounds really interesting - you gave a lot of practical solutions to a very, very complicated subject, Really excellent presentation: lots of technical terminology - but well defined.
Who is the audience for this piece? If its for academic peers then fine, as it would be using familiar language, terms and concepts. If for the general population, then it would benefit greatly from expansion and explanation with concrete examples. McWhorter is excellent in this regard.
I totally agree that without the intrapersonal foundation, there is no true empowerment. You mention mindfulness and meta cognition, which is great. But what’s lacking here is that genuine presence or mindfulness isn’t possible unless we embrace a healing journey. This means there’s a need to acknowledge our own pain and suffering - the pain body - and come into right relationship with it. If we don’t do this we can’t really be fully present, and we end up projecting our pain onto others, blaming them for it, or asking them to save us from it.
This video was obviously produced originally for an academic audience, so I can understand all the academic jargon. I would suggest if you plan to post to UA-cam you consider your audience and use plain language. There are many intellectual academics that post to UA-cam and are able to use language that effectively communicates their points so that non-academics can understand. I'll watch some more of your videos, hopefully this is an exception.
Wow, fascinating. This explains a lot. Post-traumatic slave syndrome is an interesting concept. It might explain why racial identity politics and CRT have hitherto (at least till 2020) not gained much traction in UK politics and culture.
Just to explain what I meant in my comment... this post slavery syndrome thing he talks about... it can explain why CRT has such traction in the US - since African Americans have that history. Many Africans who have recently immigrated to the UK and other countries (including the US) are not descendants of slaves. So they do not share that part of history and thus this "syndrome" may not be applicable to them.
I don't think it is scientific! I am talking about the difference between black people in the US and blank people in the UK, and how racism identity politics took a long time to get any foothold here in the UK. I do think one of the reasons for that might be the fact that many black people do not have descendents that were slaves in the UK. I'm not really making an argument. I'm just reflecting / thinking aloud having listened to this gentleman. All the best :)
there is so much so to digest here. Bravo...will actually need to watch/listen twice to absorb all points...a transcript would be helpful- perhaps I need to get his book !? while not a Marxist (whatever that designation means anymore, if anything), a more finely tuned "class" based critique of a certain type of fetishized focus on "identity" might be in order.....I'm sure it's been done, but may be another piece to the puzzle to add here
Thank you. I just failed a program here in Texas because my “rhetoric” program was really an indoctrination into woke social justice politics. Really turned me (a liberal) off of the humanities and liberalism.
The example of fixing potholes given in this video explains neatly why I'm an elected councillor in my local community rather than a revolutionary on the barricades. I get more done.
“Control people you control their thoughts; to do that you control their language ; to do that you control the definitions/redefine words” I am paraphrasing George Orwell This is what we are seeing today-constantly redefining of words, forcing thoughts into public consciousness and shoving it into law and thus behavior.
I appreciate your analysis here and your alternative offering. If the effect of CRT is to impose some victim identity on ppl, then I definitely agree it's lost its way. Obviously u appreciate a distinction form the original contributors to the concept and the emergent neoliberal monstrosity that it's become. And while a lot of the comments in the feed are valuable, I do find a number of them are here more so to use your analysis to forgo their own work to understand CRT or other notions that otherwise might challenge their prior biases. And I know that's not your fault or that u have somehow encouraged a number of bad faith actors to use your work to justify their belligerence, but it's always one of those things that I wish wasn't so. There's a coolness, a nuance to your work and ppl take it to reinforce their own already stodgy, imbedded opinion and that's a shame.
In regards to getting opposing groups to get together and solve real problems, or as you put it “getting over ourselves to solve material and social issues” - one counter argument I think is often made is that some of these social issues are specifically race related. Thus, race needs to be focused on, or at the least included, in the problem solving. To go further, people may also say that all social problems have a fundamental race component because America was founded upon racially-based slavery. Therefore, the compounding effects of this carry on to the present whether it is apparently obvious or not.
One who listens to people like professor Smith, Coleman Hughes, John McWhorter and Glenn Loury vis-a-vis the work of people like DiAngelo and Kendi, can't honestly deny that the former are much more eloquent, nuanced, coherent and ultimately intellectually profound.
Just looking at any multicultural group of engineers is evidence. I thought of this, what he says here, too. I'm glad he drew the connection to Dewey. That is very useful information. If subject matter is not respected, eventually, people will suffer from the impacts of lower standards in every domain. People who reject constructive criticism, may be the engineers designing the bridge that collapses on your loved one, or you. Example: FIU pedestrian bridge in Miami, FL. Good luck everyone! When reality no longer matters, life becomes less important than hurt feelings.
You are the kind of voice we need in the academic community!
So good to hear a dissenting and unpopular voice. This is interesting and informative, thank you. Please continue speaking truth to power whatever the cost!
Well said Victoria.
Parrhesia!
Yes. What's sad though is that his voice is actually the popular voice - notice the like/dislike ratio. Unfortunately the mainstream media only seems to highlight the unpopular voices right now so they trick people into thinking that's how most people think you know?
I would highly recommend check out Dr Sheena Mason's UA-cam page then. She's doing amazing things with her Theory of Racelessness that uses much of what Erec speaks to here plus much more.
"Anti-racism framed in a theory of empowerment."
YES! I'm so glad to have discovered your work Professor Smith. Your expertise and willingness to speak truth is really needed right now.
Your words give me hope and help me come to terms with the painful loss of friends I've recently experienced, based on these issues.
Thank you
You are losing friends? How can this complicated psychology stuff help anybody mend friendships though. I think anti-racism is ruining relationships. It's not healthy whatever it is.
I can’t tell you how grateful I am to hear this developing discussion. Thank you.
Outstanding, Professor, please keep speaking out!
I'm so glad to hear you return to "logical fallacies." I used to teach a dozen or more logical fallacies in composition courses and they always met with a collective rolling of the eyes. Decades went by and "logical fallacies" gave way to "personal expression" as the basis of composition. Now, in this postmodern age, all the logical fallacies appear in "social justice" speech, no fallacy being omitted. It's as if those old-fashioned modernist lists of fallacies, which we were meant to avoid, now serve as a handbook of how to think and what to write, say, and do.
You are not wrong. I feel like this entire last year was a refresher course from debate and geometry classes. Or a new game show: “Can You Catch the Invalid Inference?”
👍
This is exceptionally good, and jives with the parenting philosophy of many immigrant parents whose children find success despite some degree of disadvantage.
Yes! I'm a Refugee in the US whose parents couldn't speak English, have elementary school educations and were able to own successful businesses in South Florida. Decades later their PNW is higher than most US born individuals- hard work and living within their budget created generational wealth. No time for victimhood when you have little kids to feed!!
@@juana7035 Me too. Both parents were in their mid 30s zero English, zero education...my mother didn't finish middle school and my father didn't finish HS. Bought two houses and gave my brother and I every chance to make a better life for ourselves...which we did.
You have NO IDEA how nice it is to hear someone such as yourself who is black and who has an academic background of a discipline applicable to our current race situation. A number of the thoughts and ideas that you have shared are conclusions I have come to myself as a white person who is NOT an academic in this area. Thank you again. I have subscribed and will be listening to probably almost everything you put out just like I do with Thomas Sowell, Colemn Hughs, John Mcwhorter and Glenn Lowry, amongst others. 🙏🏻
Michael Jackson was right after all wasn't he? It doesn't matter if your black or white (or mixed race of anything else, for that matter) :-)
There are lots of blacks who think the same, but are labeled/attacked with adhominims🙏🏾💯
@@just_another32 MJ's "Black or White" is about racial tolerance, which implies that racial intolerance exists. Therefore, thinking critically about how racism plays apart in our society seems to be a logical progression.
@@a_lacan6870 I see your point, but it doesn't address mine. That isn't what I was referring to
@@just_another32 I liked what you said :) that smooth brain can go play in the corner by himself/themself. Anyways the Professor's video is amazing and makes me feel a lot better about the world and less crazy for coming to some of the same concussions.
Thank you for your brave voice, and for connecting your work to other fields of research in such an interesting way.
We salute you Erec Smith! Keep speaking the truth! No matter the cost!
Superb work professor, very insightful and helpful
If it hasn’t happened yet, I’d love to see a conversation between Erec and Peter Begossian on Parrhesia. They are both advocating for it, and it’s so important. So many of us are scared to bring in good faith inquiry for fear of being shut down and demonized.
Jordan B. Peterson?!?
Yes! What a great suggestion!
“I’m not here to make enemies, but I’m not necessarily here to make friends either” Well taken. Rescue what kernel of truth is embedded in the anti racism pedagogy (perhaps rebrand it?) and dispatch with the dogmatic excesses. This country needs your voice and the unbridled truth. This must have taken a lot of courage. Thank you
💖💖 this gives me hope.
We need reasonable voices now more than ever, God bless you my man. Gonna have to watch this again to really mull through it.
I love this so much! One of best talks I have heard on this topic. John McWhorter is my hero, and I am sure he is on board!
We need MORE of this. Keep speaking!!
Such a thoughtful essay. So much of this is beyond my expertise, but I really enjoy your approach and found your essay though-provoking.
It's wonderful to see a person in academia pushing back against some really bad ideas that have become so prevalent. So many professors seem to be indoctrinating rather that teaching critical thinking. Thank you for shedding some light on how differently whites and blacks identify. .
I've seen you on a panel. I admire your patience sir!
Glad I just found this! Had no idea Heterodox Academy has a You Tube channel! I’ve seen Erec speak before. I studied rhetoric in all its forms in grad school many, many moons ago. But it equipped me to have a successful career in policy and fundraising.
Problem-based learning as a mode of collective bonding, competence/confidence building and self-transcendence - yes!
This needs 10 million views!
Excellent, Eric Smith. I became aware of you about 6 months ago. I don't hear from you enough.
They used to call them “The Four R’s,” which has been cheapened to “The Three R’s.” Wow, thank God you are bringing back Rhetoric. I saw you on NBC News and love your approach. I embrace All and know things were worse and need to improve. This discord we’re having could spiral into the same violence and self-oppression as Post-Apartheid South Africa has had. My Ancestor, Robert Dakin, fought from Boston to Yorktown , VA with the Pennsylvania troops of George Washington’s army who were at Cornwallis’s surrender there. After the Revolution he returned to York. Glad to see such a Wiseman in Academics there, a great Professor of Rhetoric. Thanks.
I DEEPLY appreciate this approach, especially because Dr. Smith makes (deserved) note of CRT's positive contributions. I am a scholar in the field of Education, and some of the best histories to do with race and its effect on history have been written from CRT perspectives. I share Dr. Smith's worry that CRT has potential to overstep the norms of healthy discourse and even to backfire relative to its generally stated goals of weakening racism. But I also worry that our contemporary culture has this "either laud or wholly reject" stance toward CRT and toward folks like Ibram X. Kendi.
I am REALLY glad to see some voices that come from that lonely middle position. Thanks, Dr. Smith!
Wow, excellent analysis! Keep speaking up, the academy needs more of your kind of voice.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. Please keep sharing so others may hear this perspective.
there is so much so to digest here. Bravo. Will actually need to watch/listen twice to absorb all points...a transcript would be helpful- perhaps I need to get his book.
while I'm not a Marxist finely tuned
This was amazing, thank you so much for your great insight! My hope is that it cause more profound thought in these matters and stirs courage for discussion and civil discourse. Thanks again!
Maybe we should all accept we are simply human and move on.
Language is being used to obfuscate not to clarify! This has always been a hallmark of academia. But it is now totally out of hand. It’s what grifters do.
It comes from the French Marxist tradition.....where the more esoteric something is, the more brilliant it must be! Insanity
Yeah I know; I watched the first two minutes of this vid and I came to the same conclusion. Brother likes the sound of his own voice and the smell of his own farts.
Sandra, please see my comment to RandsomeHam and clarify if I've misunderstood you. Thanks.
@@RandsomeHam Translation: “this guy is talking above my comprehension level, therefore, I’ll just dismiss him with a ‘clever’ quip to make myself feel better about my own ignorance”
@@matthewreeves6084 I see your Rosetta Stone was broken so you went for a projector instead. Your man is selling the same onanistic, self-aggrandizing drivel Thomas Sowell was only somehow less thought out. I address it at length in another comment as a reply to the vid itself, the gist of which was to point out that his argument is informed by and rationalized through value judgments and moralistic grandstanding both of which could be flipped and used _against_ his argument.
i never heard of this kind of teaching. finally i have a word for it that is not ''get over yourself'' or ''get into the real world'' because it sound a lot more mean than i actually want to be.
Excellent lecture, professor!
Yay! I learned some stuff I didn’t know. I would feel good about sending my kids to this professor’s class…
Excellent!!!
This is so helpful. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Beautifully said. I will be sure to look more into your work. I sincerely hope that in 5 years... THIS is how we define anti-racist.
Thank you for this. An alternative that speaks to human harmony.
One of the best videos I have seen this year! You should be way more popular than you are 👌
Excellent to the Nth degree. We need more of this.
Thank you! And thank you to all who have commented. Be decent to one another.
Excellent... thank you for speaking out!
Wow. So far so good.
Yes the truth finally! Thank you Professor!
Outstanding professor Smith.
Excellent stuff.
The two thumbs down, are mad cuz they can’t use Kafka traps or any of the other classic ‘isms’ from the meme ‘discourse diagrams’, anymore.
Hehe!
Yasssssss
Book marking his book for when I can afford to spend $90 again after the pandemic. Seems like it’s got interesting and useful ideas. I plan on working with kids and families that have experienced trauma and the empowerment theory model seems like a positive framework to apply. I myself went through years of abuse growing up and I think this theory really applies to how I broke the cycle and gained a sense of control. Very thought provoking!
Volunteers are lining up to be working with me because I'm providing them with good self esteem feedback
Can I clone you? Can I rent space in your brilliant mind?
I'm subscribing, I can learn so much from you. Thank you. The US needs more strong, intelligent men like you, we have a deficit right now.
So many hits in the heart
Where has this guy been?
I'm sure there are a lot of professors who feel this way, however, they're afraid to speak up OR if they do they are swept under the rug; their voices silenced.
Thank you for this late Birthday present!!
(I thought it was just me .I used the term: multi-colored-white-people way back in the early 90's)... A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment - probably the most expensive book I have seen on Amazon in a long time - but after that analysis you just provided, am probably going to buy it for sure.
Empowerment Theory sounds really interesting - you gave a lot of practical solutions to a very, very complicated subject, Really excellent presentation: lots of technical terminology - but well defined.
Who is the audience for this piece? If its for academic peers then fine, as it would be using familiar language, terms and concepts. If for the general population, then it would benefit greatly from expansion and explanation with concrete examples. McWhorter is excellent in this regard.
thanks for this breakdown
Dr. Smith, I have dubbed thee the "Kendidote." Thank you.
loved to see this discussion on Ben Boyce's channel too! love to see so many logical speakers intersect to make consumable content
Empower this moderate voice please.
I totally agree that without the intrapersonal foundation, there is no true empowerment. You mention mindfulness and meta cognition, which is great. But what’s lacking here is that genuine presence or mindfulness isn’t possible unless we embrace a healing journey. This means there’s a need to acknowledge our own pain and suffering - the pain body - and come into right relationship with it. If we don’t do this we can’t really be fully present, and we end up projecting our pain onto others, blaming them for it, or asking them to save us from it.
Just subscribed after hearing Erik's interview with Benjamin Boyce.
Spot on
Excellent!
This video was obviously produced originally for an academic audience, so I can understand all the academic jargon. I would suggest if you plan to post to UA-cam you consider your audience and use plain language. There are many intellectual academics that post to UA-cam and are able to use language that effectively communicates their points so that non-academics can understand. I'll watch some more of your videos, hopefully this is an exception.
Yes. Just. Yes.
Thank you!
Truth works for me!🤓👍
Thank you Pro. Smith ...
What is the best way to buy your (Eric Smith) book? If it contains clear and thoughtful ideas like you share in this video I want to read it.
Excellent
thank you so much for your critiques, average citizens are not allowed
Be braver. We all have to be. Otherwise this nonsense never ends until it reaches something terrible.
@@just_another32 doing what i can
Wow, fascinating. This explains a lot. Post-traumatic slave syndrome is an interesting concept. It might explain why racial identity politics and CRT have hitherto (at least till 2020) not gained much traction in UK politics and culture.
@Nathan Wilcox who is we sorry?
Just to explain what I meant in my comment... this post slavery syndrome thing he talks about... it can explain why CRT has such traction in the US - since African Americans have that history. Many Africans who have recently immigrated to the UK and other countries (including the US) are not descendants of slaves. So they do not share that part of history and thus this "syndrome" may not be applicable to them.
I don't think it is scientific! I am talking about the difference between black people in the US and blank people in the UK, and how racism identity politics took a long time to get any foothold here in the UK. I do think one of the reasons for that might be the fact that many black people do not have descendents that were slaves in the UK. I'm not really making an argument. I'm just reflecting / thinking aloud having listened to this gentleman. All the best :)
*black not blank
@Nathan Wilcox I don't know where here is or who they are! :D
Brilliantly articulated.
I love this! Thank you!
there is so much so to digest here. Bravo...will actually need to watch/listen twice to absorb all points...a transcript would be helpful- perhaps I need to get his book !?
while not a Marxist (whatever that designation means anymore, if anything), a more finely tuned "class" based critique of a certain type of fetishized focus on "identity" might be in order.....I'm sure it's been done, but may be another piece to the puzzle to add here
Very well said. 🤘
This was thoughtful.
I would love to see you have a conversation with John McWhorter, Glenn Lowry and CoIeman Hughes,
God bless you.
Internal work
A real CRT debate is going to have to happen.
Thank you. I just failed a program here in Texas because my “rhetoric” program was really an indoctrination into woke social justice politics. Really turned me (a liberal) off of the humanities and liberalism.
The example of fixing potholes given in this video explains neatly why I'm an elected councillor in my local community rather than a revolutionary on the barricades. I get more done.
Remember kids...your victimhood, and its ability to induce feelings of guilt in others, is your power.
“Control people you control their thoughts; to do that you control their language ; to do that you control the definitions/redefine words” I am paraphrasing George Orwell
This is what we are seeing today-constantly redefining of words, forcing thoughts into public consciousness and shoving it into law and thus behavior.
0:57 parrhesia = παρρησία , ἡ, (πᾶς, ῥῆσις) = outspokenness, frankness, freedom of speech, claimed by the Athenians as their privilege
Thanks for posting definition & derivation.
I was unfamiliar with the term & imagine most listeners find themselves in the same boat.
I appreciate your analysis here and your alternative offering. If the effect of CRT is to impose some victim identity on ppl, then I definitely agree it's lost its way. Obviously u appreciate a distinction form the original contributors to the concept and the emergent neoliberal monstrosity that it's become.
And while a lot of the comments in the feed are valuable, I do find a number of them are here more so to use your analysis to forgo their own work to understand CRT or other notions that otherwise might challenge their prior biases. And I know that's not your fault or that u have somehow encouraged a number of bad faith actors to use your work to justify their belligerence, but it's always one of those things that I wish wasn't so. There's a coolness, a nuance to your work and ppl take it to reinforce their own already stodgy, imbedded opinion and that's a shame.
Empowerment and true accomplishment necessitates "getting over ourselves."
In regards to getting opposing groups to get together and solve real problems, or as you put it “getting over ourselves to solve material and social issues” - one counter argument I think is often made is that some of these social issues are specifically race related. Thus, race needs to be focused on, or at the least included, in the problem solving. To go further, people may also say that all social problems have a fundamental race component because America was founded upon racially-based slavery. Therefore, the compounding effects of this carry on to the present whether it is apparently obvious or not.
You appear to have missed the point completely. Don't choose those problems to work on. Choose boring things not racially charged things.
Brilliant stuff. Good job seeing through the matrix and rejecting the alluring victim card.
💛💛💛
Kendi and di angelo didn’t like this...
No but I kinda think they might like you name :o
They only like their own reflections.
Empowerment and problem based learning is for everyone, insecurity is part of human nature.
I would pay to see you debate or discuss antiracism with Kendi.
One who listens to people like professor Smith, Coleman Hughes, John McWhorter and Glenn Loury vis-a-vis the work of people like DiAngelo and Kendi, can't honestly deny that the former are much more eloquent, nuanced, coherent and ultimately intellectually profound.
An academic is someone that goes to school at six and then never leaves.
People are not black and white. We are all different shades of the same color. There is one race: The Human Race
Wowowow
Just looking at any multicultural group of engineers is evidence. I thought of this, what he says here, too. I'm glad he drew the connection to Dewey. That is very useful information. If subject matter is not respected, eventually, people will suffer from the impacts of lower standards in every domain. People who reject constructive criticism, may be the engineers designing the bridge that collapses on your loved one, or you. Example: FIU pedestrian bridge in Miami, FL. Good luck everyone! When reality no longer matters, life becomes less important than hurt feelings.
I'm not sure how you could be more correct.