Former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the two GOP presidential frontrunners, have both promised a crackdown on colleges should they occupy the White House — a stark reflection of the right’s growing skepticism of higher education.

Some Republican complaints about colleges are related to broader concern about “wokeness” and free speech. But others hint at deeper questions about the value of college, and how to ensure a degree comes with an appropriate economic return.

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    1 year ago

    So maybe I’m just misinterpreting your idea of what “anti-racist”

    You are. Anti-racism is the lifestyle of fighting ‘racism’ in every day life. However, the definition of ‘racism’ has changed in academia so it’s not actually about treating races unequally, it’s treating the right races unequally.

    So, in your example, if that business owner isn’t hiring minority races over white races, they are not anti-racist, therefore, they are racist.

    Being otherwise neutral to an established system is perpetuating it

    See you’re doing it here. Someone can be neutral to race; not making any determinations based on race, but if you say the established system, which you can’t define, is racist (once again, the ‘updated’ definition of racism which says only white people can be racist), you want to claim anybody that isn’t donating to the right charity, or supporting your causes, is racist?

    So essentially, you’ve made ‘racism’ entirely subjective based on policies that you yourself (or the left in general) determines.

    Racism used to mean a very objective thing: if you treat people differently based on their race. Now it’s entirely subjective at the whim of one political parties definition.