Thanks for this.......I'm going to read some crt....I have phd work behind me and can read complex theoretical material. But from outside this debate....which seems a tad silly to me.....it seems obvious that you can't deny the history of racism in the United States.. And to look critically at that history is certainly not racist. I'm a bit sceptical because as a woman who lived through the feminist years.........it was almost laughable how the gender that kept women out of professional gathering spaces like our Petroleum Club....for years........was quick to call sexism if abuse victims wanted to have meetings that excluded men.
Sometimes the demographic that benefitted from certain exclusions is pretty thin skinned about being called out on anything that names them part of the problem.
Double standards are held easily by the privileged.
A shortcut would be to look at John McWorter’s “it bears mentioning” substack. He was sterilizing his book, 6 chapters as I remember. He gave it up when he was hired by the New York Times but it’s still available for free (I think).
Congratulations on the PhD what an accomplishment! I almost got my honours BA from York University in Toronto.
If you're as young as I suspect....finish it. The Phd classes changed me...even though it made no difference in the pay I received when I went back teaching high school. Learning is a wonderful longevity activity. Our mind craves it.
I’ll probably go back and do the last two courses - both electives - I have 18 of 20 credits for an honours BA in history and humanities, (aka an Uber driver). As for a PHD, you should be proud!
I am 58, but young at heart, that’s must be what you sensed.
I never did the thesis........just the course work. But oh dear, did my mind expand trying to understand Foucault...and a few of the postmodernists. Derrida is a doozy. And there was a science woman, Donna Haraway, that really taught me a lot.
Maybe it was the boy in your handle that confused me?
Professor John McWorter did not beat around the bush, his book is called “woke racism”. CRT is racist.
Thanks for this.......I'm going to read some crt....I have phd work behind me and can read complex theoretical material. But from outside this debate....which seems a tad silly to me.....it seems obvious that you can't deny the history of racism in the United States.. And to look critically at that history is certainly not racist. I'm a bit sceptical because as a woman who lived through the feminist years.........it was almost laughable how the gender that kept women out of professional gathering spaces like our Petroleum Club....for years........was quick to call sexism if abuse victims wanted to have meetings that excluded men.
Sometimes the demographic that benefitted from certain exclusions is pretty thin skinned about being called out on anything that names them part of the problem.
Double standards are held easily by the privileged.
A shortcut would be to look at John McWorter’s “it bears mentioning” substack. He was sterilizing his book, 6 chapters as I remember. He gave it up when he was hired by the New York Times but it’s still available for free (I think).
Congratulations on the PhD what an accomplishment! I almost got my honours BA from York University in Toronto.
If you're as young as I suspect....finish it. The Phd classes changed me...even though it made no difference in the pay I received when I went back teaching high school. Learning is a wonderful longevity activity. Our mind craves it.
I’ll probably go back and do the last two courses - both electives - I have 18 of 20 credits for an honours BA in history and humanities, (aka an Uber driver). As for a PHD, you should be proud!
I am 58, but young at heart, that’s must be what you sensed.
I never did the thesis........just the course work. But oh dear, did my mind expand trying to understand Foucault...and a few of the postmodernists. Derrida is a doozy. And there was a science woman, Donna Haraway, that really taught me a lot.
Maybe it was the boy in your handle that confused me?
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