{"id":18745,"date":"2021-12-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T08:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18745"},"modified":"2021-12-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T08:36:29","slug":"quick-takes-normalization-of-wokeness-dispensation-for-whites-doubleplusungood-words-the-whiteness-of-anti-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/12\/09\/quick-takes-normalization-of-wokeness-dispensation-for-whites-doubleplusungood-words-the-whiteness-of-anti-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Normalization Of Wokeness: Dispensation For Whites; Doubleplusungood Words &#038; Phrases; The Whiteness Of \u201cAnti-Racism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Everything within the lens of race; nothing outside the lens of race; nothing against the lens of race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qXhYsMEjsZ8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Racial and sex discrimination is the official police of one of the world\u2019s biggest investment firms, State Street. Oh, White men can still be hired\u2026 if they are given a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/j0TuQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special dispensation<\/a>, which which will likely not be given freely since executives pay is tied to having less White men in the company vis-\u00e0-vis non-Whites or women:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cStaff at one of the world\u2019s biggest investment companies have to get special approval to hire a white man, rather than a woman or an ethnic-minority candidate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe policy is part of a drive by State Street, which employs 2,500 people in Ireland, to improve diversity within its middle and senior management. The multinational aims to triple the number of black, Asian and other minority staff in senior roles by 2023, and executives\u2019 bonuses will be lower if they do not meet the targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s a first world problem to have a \u201cspirit animal\u201d and if you use the wrong word or phrase you will be blackballed and sold down the river\u2026 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/words-and-phrases-commonly-used-offensive-english-language-1.6252274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a> (of course).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCBC Ottawa compiled a small list of words, submitted by readers and some of our journalists who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour. We ran some of the words by anti-racism and language experts, who said some of these phrases can be hurtful to various groups of people for their historical and cultural context.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c \u201cI didn&#8217;t know it was racist\u2019 does not eliminate the pain of the hearer,\u201d said Taniguchi. \u2018As language users, we have the social responsibility to monitor the impact our utterances have on others, especially when it involves a marginalized group.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnti-racism trainer Jas Kalra agrees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018It&#8217;s not so much about political correctness, I think it is about the empirical accuracy and &#8230; if somebody really calls us out on a particular word, we need to stop and say, \u201cIt&#8217;s not about me,\u201d\u2019 said Kalra, who runs Ottawa-based Jas Kalra Consulting and coaches people and organizations on inclusion and diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It turns out that the least \u201canti-racist\u201d racial groups are all <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/23780231211052945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not White<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAlthough decades old, the terms \u2018anti-racism\/antiracism\u2019 and \u2018anti-racist\/antiracist\u2019 have grown in usage by scholars, authors, and activists to convey the necessity of active opposition to racial injustice. But as the terms have become more mainstream, researchers have yet to examine the social and ideological correlates of actually describing oneself as \u2018anti-racist.\u2019 Drawing on nationally representative survey data fielded at the height of national interest in \u2018antiracist\/anti-racist\u2019 language, the authors find that Blacks and Hispanics are significantly less likely than whites to describe themselves as \u2018anti-racist,\u2019 and only the \u2018very liberal\u2019 are more likely than other political orientations to identify with the label. Considering ideological correlates, progressive racial ideology is the strongest predictor of identifying as \u2018anti-racist.\u2019 However, the second strongest correlate is describing oneself as \u2018color-blind.\u2019 Analyses of quadratic terms suggests that this correlation is curvilinear for nonwhites but more linear for whites. Although originally conveying more radical and subversive ideals, those currently most likely to self-describe as \u201canti-racist\u201d are white progressives with what we call \u2018generically liberal\u2019 racial views.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Normalization Of Wokeness: Dispensation For Whites; Doubleplusungood Words &#038; Phrases; The Whiteness Of \u2018Anti-Racism\u2019\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Everything within the lens of race; nothing outside the lens of race; nothing against the lens of race.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Everything within the lens of race; nothing outside the lens of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/12\/09\/quick-takes-normalization-of-wokeness-dispensation-for-whites-doubleplusungood-words-the-whiteness-of-anti-racism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[59,46,24,48],"class_list":["post-18745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-economy","tag-kyriarchy","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18746,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745\/revisions\/18746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}