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!
@barrycohen3113 жыл бұрын
Well said Victoria.
@willmercury3 жыл бұрын
Parrhesia!
@BrianDonato3 жыл бұрын
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?
@Steve_Jarrett-Jordan3 жыл бұрын
I would highly recommend check out Dr Sheena Mason's KZbin page then. She's doing amazing things with her Theory of Racelessness that uses much of what Erec speaks to here plus much more.
@zzzaaayyynnn3 жыл бұрын
You are the kind of voice we need in the academic community!
@viramandybur49153 жыл бұрын
Outstanding, Professor, please keep speaking out!
@bestany55173 жыл бұрын
I can’t tell you how grateful I am to hear this developing discussion. Thank you.
@DavidAsh423 жыл бұрын
"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
@emmalouie16633 жыл бұрын
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.
@philipsdeb3 жыл бұрын
Maybe we should all accept we are simply human and move on.
@sandrakessler54993 жыл бұрын
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.
@NoNameNo.53 жыл бұрын
It comes from the French Marxist tradition.....where the more esoteric something is, the more brilliant it must be! Insanity
@RandsomeHam3 жыл бұрын
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.
@Holly-days3 жыл бұрын
Sandra, please see my comment to RandsomeHam and clarify if I've misunderstood you. Thanks.
@matthewreeves60843 жыл бұрын
@@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”
@RandsomeHam3 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@markvanderbilt74833 жыл бұрын
This is exceptionally good, and jives with the parenting philosophy of many immigrant parents whose children find success despite some degree of disadvantage.
@juana70353 жыл бұрын
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!!
@mljrotag63433 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@davidgardner47793 жыл бұрын
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_another323 жыл бұрын
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) :-)
@BushaBandulu3 жыл бұрын
There are lots of blacks who think the same, but are labeled/attacked with adhominims🙏🏾💯
@a_lacan68702 жыл бұрын
@@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_another322 жыл бұрын
@@a_lacan6870 I see your point, but it doesn't address mine. That isn't what I was referring to
@ReallyNFW2 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@selfwhiteous86603 жыл бұрын
Kendi and di angelo didn’t like this...
@just_another323 жыл бұрын
No but I kinda think they might like you name :o
@willmercury3 жыл бұрын
They only like their own reflections.
@roberthodgins65843 жыл бұрын
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.
@just_another323 жыл бұрын
Hehe!
@Nevila-v7n3 жыл бұрын
Yasssssss
@Bornearth753 жыл бұрын
💖💖 this gives me hope.
@EricSmith90003 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your brave voice, and for connecting your work to other fields of research in such an interesting way.
@basementmadetapes3 жыл бұрын
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.
@dustinirwin13 жыл бұрын
Such a thoughtful essay. So much of this is beyond my expertise, but I really enjoy your approach and found your essay though-provoking.
@keithtokash64313 жыл бұрын
Empower this moderate voice please.
@juana70353 жыл бұрын
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.
@CoreyChambersLA2 жыл бұрын
People are not black and white. We are all different shades of the same color. There is one race: The Human Race
@johnsiman50633 жыл бұрын
0:57 parrhesia = παρρησία , ἡ, (πᾶς, ῥῆσις) = outspokenness, frankness, freedom of speech, claimed by the Athenians as their privilege
@literatious3083 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting definition & derivation. I was unfamiliar with the term & imagine most listeners find themselves in the same boat.
@rifrafbarker3 жыл бұрын
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.
@niallmackintosh10533 жыл бұрын
Jordan B. Peterson?!?
@TheArtemis073 жыл бұрын
Yes! What a great suggestion!
@deedeeequestrian84823 жыл бұрын
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. .
@zgobermn68953 жыл бұрын
Wow, excellent analysis! Keep speaking up, the academy needs more of your kind of voice.
@earlanderson40023 жыл бұрын
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.
@gorgo49103 жыл бұрын
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?”
@markpaul13833 жыл бұрын
👍
@saiello20613 жыл бұрын
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.
@willievanilly21223 жыл бұрын
We salute you Erec Smith! Keep speaking the truth! No matter the cost!
@mcscronson3 жыл бұрын
Problem-based learning as a mode of collective bonding, competence/confidence building and self-transcendence - yes!
@lifewasgiventous16143 жыл бұрын
We need reasonable voices now more than ever, God bless you my man. Gonna have to watch this again to really mull through it.
@RandsomeHam3 жыл бұрын
My man, all you had to say is that you think that there may be performative aspect to the approach of certain proponents of aspects of anti-racism/CRT, because everything else in this vid is moralizing conjecture and name dropping. For real, what makes you think that the criticism you levy on them for supposedly feeding their narcissism by perpetuating a victimhood narrative, can't be applied to you as you fueling your own narcissism through the fetishization of individualism? That you're merely engaging in self-aggrandizing moralism by pitting your "empowerment" paradigm against a strawman of supposed, emotionally vulnerable peons seeking a rationalization of victimhood for their "lack of fulfillment"?
@galaxytrio3 жыл бұрын
Interesting, but I prefer plainer, less elevated "academic" language. It's tiresome.
@jtalbainWSA3 жыл бұрын
Seriously, if he wants to reach the "unwashed masses" and fight back against the current parasitic ideology, speak plainly.
@freeyourmind99973 жыл бұрын
@@jtalbainWSA I'd assume his goals are to penetrate academia. Which seems to be the root of the problem. You have to be precise and use flowery language to an extent.
@kenyafromcali3 жыл бұрын
His audience IS academia my friend. :)
@richware13 жыл бұрын
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 KZbin you consider your audience and use plain language. There are many intellectual academics that post to KZbin 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.
@canopeaz3 жыл бұрын
Remember kids...your victimhood, and its ability to induce feelings of guilt in others, is your power.
@jesboogie3 жыл бұрын
I am coining a new term: racial racketeering.
@cjpapasito Жыл бұрын
Superb work professor, very insightful and helpful
@jeeed63903 жыл бұрын
Where has this guy been?
@Johnzen033 жыл бұрын
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.
@TheArtemis073 жыл бұрын
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!
@kevincurrie-knight32673 жыл бұрын
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!
@arquilli13 жыл бұрын
“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
@caljader33883 жыл бұрын
Truth works for me!🤓👍
@MaryMcDonaldLewis3 жыл бұрын
Dr. Smith, I have dubbed thee the "Kendidote." Thank you.
@GuitarSchoolVideo3 жыл бұрын
Yay! I learned some stuff I didn’t know. I would feel good about sending my kids to this professor’s class…
@just_another323 жыл бұрын
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_another323 жыл бұрын
@Nathan Wilcox who is we sorry?
@just_another323 жыл бұрын
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.
@just_another323 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@just_another323 жыл бұрын
*black not blank
@just_another323 жыл бұрын
@Nathan Wilcox I don't know where here is or who they are! :D
@royhurst10043 жыл бұрын
Excellent, Eric Smith. I became aware of you about 6 months ago. I don't hear from you enough.
@benaiahwright9373 жыл бұрын
A real CRT debate is going to have to happen.
@sandrakessler54993 жыл бұрын
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.
@scottl63843 жыл бұрын
We need MORE of this. Keep speaking!!
@jonathanbell72873 жыл бұрын
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
@nickgeva82253 жыл бұрын
One of the best videos I have seen this year! You should be way more popular than you are 👌
@114Riggs3 жыл бұрын
I've seen you on a panel. I admire your patience sir!
@ForeverYoungKickboxer2 жыл бұрын
This needs 10 million views!
@mlovmo3 жыл бұрын
Getting activists together to solve problems that are mundane and "not existential or exciting." Ha. "Existential and exciting" is exactly the reason young people join the CSJ movement in first place and NOT Churches!
@darthkahnobis3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! And thank you to all who have commented. Be decent to one another.
@jehugo663 жыл бұрын
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.
@geangarcia2673 Жыл бұрын
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.
@FreeYourMindTR3 жыл бұрын
💛💛💛
@allyourbase8882 жыл бұрын
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@johnbeaubien88263 жыл бұрын
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.
@JorJorIvanovitch Жыл бұрын
Booker T. Washington had the most functionally effective approach toward obtaining results: Focus on hard work, pragmatism, demonstrating competence, trustworthiness, thrift, etc. and the desired feelings of equality will be granted from the target group. Of course, W.E.B. DuBois was correct in the inherent equality between blacks and whites. Declaring that a priori, and insisting on that approach when a large segment of the audience had prejudice was like insisting on an outcome without a plan on how to achieve it. DuBois would say there is nothing to "achieve" because it is a "self-evident truth." Yet, it was not a truth that was self-evident to the target audience---white society---one was trying to persuade. Some people are persuaded by rational argument, abstractly or analytically. Most people, though, require observed experience. Witnessing people exhibit virtue is a more potent means of persuading someone that you are good rather than a logical argument. Washington understood the limits of psychology in this way that Dubois did not. As such, Washington's approach was the means to achieve Dubois' ends. Once white society saw the worth of blacks and viewed blacks as earning their respect, whites then realized it was a truth that should've been self-evident to them all along. It is unfortunate that in order to persuade people, we sometimes have to prove ourselves to earn their respect rather than declare it from the start. This, however, seems to be an inescapable component of human nature and social relations that pervades our thinking and existing in the world at times. Not all the time. Nor is it an omnipotent force, but it is a component.
@stanleymcomber48443 жыл бұрын
All this talk of racism, aka, slavery. Why has no one exposed and created a front to attack and end it in the continent that still has it functioning today, NOW. Real slavery, not “thought - slavery”, real slavery, - being bought and sold. Address that and maybe I’ll start to listen to these “thought” issues.
@andrearivas86053 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. Please keep sharing so others may hear this perspective.
@CoreyChambersLA2 жыл бұрын
Truth
@stacyisaak22583 жыл бұрын
Yes the truth finally! Thank you Professor!
@Bolaniullen3 жыл бұрын
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.
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
Volunteers are lining up to be working with me because I'm providing them with good self esteem feedback
@j53iliff22 жыл бұрын
Spot on
@lunibombom45512 жыл бұрын
Why can't we wait till the children are older to teach them anti racism and non white washed history? Shouldn't we allow them to grow strong mentally, emotionally, and physically prior to receiving extremely touchy information that may damage the child regardless of their phenotypes????
@thomaspayne76173 жыл бұрын
Excellent to the Nth degree. We need more of this.
@jsedmonds2563 жыл бұрын
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.
@GrumpyGrebo3 жыл бұрын
Putting discrimination in the mirror makes discrimination. Anti-racism and racism are different sides of the same coin. Throw away that dirty penny.
@Wisemuse Жыл бұрын
If you don't like racism, don't be racist.
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
And how am I doing that? Because I did the work so u didn't have too but he won't stop talking about raice
@horaciomontes61543 жыл бұрын
Excellent!!!
@endigosun3 жыл бұрын
It’s already framed in a theory of empowerment for many of us... why do you assume that it’s not?
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
And people constantly bringing him down constantly
@MrCzto Жыл бұрын
Sadly this is way to complicated for the hustlers on both sides of the isle...
@tabsis90173 жыл бұрын
I'm so sick of the racial grift people use to get laws made and for politicians to get in power.
@gratuitousfootnote11833 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for your critiques, average citizens are not allowed
@just_another323 жыл бұрын
Be braver. We all have to be. Otherwise this nonsense never ends until it reaches something terrible.
@gratuitousfootnote11833 жыл бұрын
@@just_another32 doing what i can
@arquilli13 жыл бұрын
Wowowow
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
Instead they all gosip and hate because I got out here and I talked to them so I can get to the root of the problem
@-Nos-3 жыл бұрын
The concept of anti-racism foolishly or with malicious intent commits the false dichotomy/black and white fallacy (excuse the puny-ness). It does this by not offering not-racist as a more evident position for one to hold.
@just_another323 жыл бұрын
Yep, well spotted. Most people just swallow it.
@mrage22r3 жыл бұрын
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.
@mercantilistic3 жыл бұрын
You appear to have missed the point completely. Don't choose those problems to work on. Choose boring things not racially charged things.
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
Not down misersery likes company
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
And if u are protected by God deamonds can't face u
@prybarknives3 жыл бұрын
"I'm not here to make enemies..." (unfortunately) *enemies gather Professor Smith, is the idea of an inability to discontinue a fight, against a destructive paradigm (that has been substantially mitigated), until that paradigm has been completely reversed (regardless of the obvious impossibility of the task), any part of your thinking? Particularly, the idea that if any racists, of any degree of racism, exist and behave racistly (regardless of how few), no minority is free of racism. Obviously this is something an exaggeration in regards to some anti racist theory/platform, but not much of an exaggeration to many. And I don't mean to imply that the number of acting racists, is so miniscule that they are of no consequence. The idea is more that, as a society we have come a long way, as a 51yo I can remember overt racial hostility toward blacks, from certain classes of whites, as a kid. Similar behaviors wouldn't be tolerated today, at least in the same town/situation. But this improvement seems unseen or at least unacknowledged, by many anti racists. As though today is no better, racially, than the 50's, or even that today is possibly worse. It seems like the tendency to require/expect rapid perfection, as opposed to slow progress, is a common trait. And it has it's benefits surely, but the more these expectations become widely held, and impatiently demanded, the more exponentially counterproductive becomes the seeking. Anyway, rambling over, great video, will look for more from you!
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
That's the only way u'll be strong enough not to let the deamonds get to u
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
But they took care of me when my family wasn't there
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
So u might give a man a pill but that isn't going to help his selfasteem
@jacobbritton73593 жыл бұрын
Excellent lecture, professor!
@FreeYourMindTR3 жыл бұрын
Yes. Just. Yes.
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
Why because if ur standing in my way ima take u out
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
The men that I'm treating are all hurting and they are all been hurt
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
Cuz they soon came to realise that love dosent hurt
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
Because our DNA is all connected tru God
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
But I'm treating people with trauma
@citizencaitlin7240 Жыл бұрын
This is so helpful. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
@hustlehustlehustle3 жыл бұрын
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.
@marcusTanthony3 жыл бұрын
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.
@niallmackintosh10533 жыл бұрын
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
@richardfeit82963 жыл бұрын
I've been using the term "post identity" to refine the difference between age, gender and "content of character", from identity. We are people first, and therefore it is simple meanness to attack an individuals personhood (toxic-masculinity for instance), however once we self-identify, the figurative gloves come off. Individuals do not have to respect identities. Allowances for one another for peaceful purposes is great, but once identified as Jew, White, Gay, Black, Trans, etc., the tribal instincts of venality demand "Pre-figurative Politics" (Never heard the term. Thank you for that.) Keep talking please. :)
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
I'm talking about humans
@msstephaniediazcortez97012 жыл бұрын
So in order for u to start to focus on ur self and do self work