Rex Kerr
Aug 26, 2023

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What is the functional difference between this and being committed to becoming non-racist?

In some spaces that I see, people do try to become anti-racist, which as a practical matter means that they become racially bigoted against people who aren't traditionally disadvantaged minorities.

For example, I've seen DEI training materials from a major tech company lauding blatant Title VII discrimination on the basis of sex and race as the right response to a case of possible implicit bias and/or structural racism. (If you swapped race and gender, you'd have had almost exactly the "bad, report this!" example from another part of the training.)

So I think an attitude of anti-racism doesn't necessarily provide the right cognitive framework as opposed to an attitude of savvy non-racism.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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