https://www.foxnews.com/politics/professor-blames-whiteness-for-opposition-to-school-mask-mandates
Hakeem is on Fox News
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inelegantly put as usual, but he's not really wrong
No he's actually really wrong. It is not whiteness driving this behavior, it is a peculiar American form of "freedom" driving it. Not a single one of the people being disruptive and difficult about mask mandates is doing so because of their race.
HJ's move, here as always, is to *define* the motive for aggressive acts he doesn't like by white people as "whiteness." It doesn't help to understand them at all, but it does help him with his professional grift built on his colleagues guilt.
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Are Black people anywhere close to proportionally represented among the anti-mask protestors? If not, why not? Do you think they find masks comfortable or hate "freedom"?
This "peculiar American form of 'freedom;" didn't come out of nowhere. It's always been connected importantly to race. Dr. Johnson- 'How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of N*groes?''
inelegantly put as usual, but he's not really wrong
No he's actually really wrong. It is not whiteness driving this behavior, it is a peculiar American form of "freedom" driving it. Not a single one of the people being disruptive and difficult about mask mandates is doing so because of their race.
HJ's move, here as always, is to *define* the motive for aggressive acts he doesn't like by white people as "whiteness." It doesn't help to understand them at all, but it does help him with his professional grift built on his colleagues guilt. -
The problem with Hakeem and some other folks is that they can't imagine having grown up as white and not having thought about race all the time. The white people protesting mask mandates simply don't think about race as often or the way Hakeem does. It's hard for him and some others to imagine a paradigm where race just isn't the determining factor of everything.
"So, Hakeem: imagine you grew up white and surrounded by white people. You wouldn't be thinking of race all the time. Neither do the white people who protest the mask mandates."
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The problem with Hakeem and some other folks is that they can't imagine having grown up as white and not having thought about race all the time. The white people protesting mask mandates simply don't think about race as often or the way Hakeem does. It's hard for him and some others to imagine a paradigm where race just isn't the determining factor of everything.
"So, Hakeem: imagine you grew up white and surrounded by white people. You wouldn't be thinking of race all the time. Neither do the white people who protest the mask mandates."The funny thing is that Hakes would agree with you. But he would say the fact that they are not thinking of race all the time means they are racist.
It is essentialist to the max and really stupíd. But that's Hakes for you!
The nice thing (for Hakes) is that any critique of him is racist as well. So good luck with that.
Everything is racist to Hakes. Including the fact that they don't have Krispy Kremes on the buffet at the Golden Corral (another one of his pet peeves)
Just Hakes bein' Hakes!
I despise Fox news, but if they got Hakes to lock up his Tweets account, then I consider that a public service.
Oh! Hakes!
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This is a paradigm example of not understanding his point. One aspect of whiteness is precisely the privilege of not having to acknowledge/think about one's racial status all the time, reproducing its ills and domination through this ideological swallowing of colorblind-logic, and then being hysterical and aggressive when people point out that this ignorance perpetuates historically situated oppression.
of course the people protesting mask mandates don't think this has anything to do with their racial position (or they don't believe in/think about racial positions in the first place). Yet their privilege and fuzzy but internalized fear of losing it, and what they will do when the problematic behaviours traditionally entangled with and facilitated by it are challenged, makes this racial position - whiteness - painfully obvious.The problem with Hakeem and some other folks is that they can't imagine having grown up as white and not having thought about race all the time. The white people protesting mask mandates simply don't think about race as often or the way Hakeem does. It's hard for him and some others to imagine a paradigm where race just isn't the determining factor of everything.
"So, Hakeem: imagine you grew up white and surrounded by white people. You wouldn't be thinking of race all the time. Neither do the white people who protest the mask mandates."