[News] DeSantis-controlled Disney World district gets rid of all diversity, equity and inclusion programs and staffers ( www.nbcnews.com )

Nougat , 11 months ago

I have to think that this paragraph is horribly misstated:

DeSantis also has championed Florida’s so-called “Stop WOKE” law, which bars businesses, colleges and K-12 schools from giving training on certain racial concepts, such as the theory that people of a particular race are inherently racist, privileged or oppressed. A federal judge last November blocked the law’s enforcement in colleges, universities and businesses, calling it “positively dystopian.” (My bold.)

"Inherently" connotes that "people of a particular race are ... racist, privileged or oppressed" purely by their nature as being of the specified race, which is obviously completely fucking wrong. The truth is that "people of a particular race" are "privileged or oppressed" to some degree because they exist as a particular race within a social/cultural/economic system which privileges or oppresses them based on race. Note that I did not include "racist" as a quality in my corrective statement. It's true that a social/cultural/economic system can increase the likelihood that an individual within it would be racist, due to pressures applied to people within such a system, but it would be wrong to make a blanket statement that all people of a particular race "are racist."

andyburke , 11 months ago

Racist people often make it a point to misunderstand.