Just finding this post, and wonderful comments here that I have already 'liked." I would add that there is an organization called FIRE that defends professors from just this type of anti-free speech activism currently run amok at certain liberal universities. I couldn't agree more that the intense focus on racial identity is the antithe…
Just finding this post, and wonderful comments here that I have already 'liked." I would add that there is an organization called FIRE that defends professors from just this type of anti-free speech activism currently run amok at certain liberal universities. I couldn't agree more that the intense focus on racial identity is the antithesis of what I was taught growing up in the 70s and 80s. People are people are people. I go to a church--a liberal Christian, 300 year old, Northeast congregational church borne from the Puritan tradition. The parishioners are 95% white. There are a few black families who are part of our beloved community. When the pastor delivers sermons that apologize for our "white supremacy," and when white parishioners stand up and confess their "micro-aggressions," I can't help but think that those black members never feel MORE separate and differentiated than when church leadership draws these lines that delineate based on skin color. (I felt this acutely when I brought our black foster son there once and the topic of race came up in a sermon.) The only upside that I can read into this extremism is that normal people will say enough is enough, and soon.
Just finding this post, and wonderful comments here that I have already 'liked." I would add that there is an organization called FIRE that defends professors from just this type of anti-free speech activism currently run amok at certain liberal universities. I couldn't agree more that the intense focus on racial identity is the antithesis of what I was taught growing up in the 70s and 80s. People are people are people. I go to a church--a liberal Christian, 300 year old, Northeast congregational church borne from the Puritan tradition. The parishioners are 95% white. There are a few black families who are part of our beloved community. When the pastor delivers sermons that apologize for our "white supremacy," and when white parishioners stand up and confess their "micro-aggressions," I can't help but think that those black members never feel MORE separate and differentiated than when church leadership draws these lines that delineate based on skin color. (I felt this acutely when I brought our black foster son there once and the topic of race came up in a sermon.) The only upside that I can read into this extremism is that normal people will say enough is enough, and soon.