I (white male) used to try and be active as an ally in regards to DEI. I work for a large public agency. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole these days.<p>This vein of 'antiracism' is poison because it really is absurd. I've personally seen people call 'agendas' and 'goals' white supremacy. Hell, I had to listen to someone talk about how 'clock time' is a tool invented by white supremacists. I've had friends fall down the rabbit whole into this nonsense, where any shortcoming in themselves is just white supremacist culture trying to force things on them. It's really sad.<p>The most insidious thing is how well it has a built-in defense mechanism. By co-opting terms like 'anti-racist' and defining them under a narrow socio-political view point, it creates a complication for people to talk about their world view. I consider myself 'anti-racist' because I hate racists, but am I 'Anti-racist' in Kemba's viewpoint? No<p>And stop trying to make Latinx a thing, its not going to happen and is super cringy.
Sounds like they did her a favor.<p>The claims about 'White Supremacy Culture' alone are asinine (sense of urgency?).<p>Why anybody would want to participate in academia as an administrator is beyond me. It just seems so toxic and petty.
This is a surpassingly stupid story in which literally everyone involved looks like a crank: an existing DEI practice at a community college that was unironically still using Tema Okun's "White Supremacy Culture" slides, the ones that ascribe literacy and punctuality to whiteness, and an incoming DEI dean who decided to operate as an anti-woke crusader, up to and including repping FAIR, a conservative anti-CRT activist organization with a prominent side hustle in making sure that middle schools don't allow any students to prefer pronouns.