“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” - Angela Y. Davis
Note that anti-racist doesn't mean "Racist against the race that isn't currently the victim", and it doesn't mean "giving the targeted population special privileges in unrelated fields, to make up for it". It means "Calling out all prejudice/hate when it happens, and addressing and reversing systemic biases that keep the underprivileged people underprivileged"
If one can't agree with this description of being anti-racist, they're either not helping bring about the equality they may claim to want, or they're actually just a racist themselves and lack either empathy, perspective, or both
In common leftist theory is known the enemy of the left is the moderate liberal, who wouldn't mind if equality were to happen quietly by magic but is not willing to suffer inconvenience or breaches of the status quo in the process of making change for the better for the whole public.
And yes, a lot of the democratic voter lumpenproletariat fall into this range, where they're willing to buy a rainbow Frappuccino but not suffer from commute slowdown due to a protest.
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” - Angela Y. Davis
Note that anti-racist doesn't mean "Racist against the race that isn't currently the victim", and it doesn't mean "giving the targeted population special privileges in unrelated fields, to make up for it". It means "Calling out all prejudice/hate when it happens, and addressing and reversing systemic biases that keep the underprivileged people underprivileged"
If one can't agree with this description of being anti-racist, they're either not helping bring about the equality they may claim to want, or they're actually just a racist themselves and lack either empathy, perspective, or both
In common leftist theory is known the enemy of the left is the moderate liberal, who wouldn't mind if equality were to happen quietly by magic but is not willing to suffer inconvenience or breaches of the status quo in the process of making change for the better for the whole public.
And yes, a lot of the democratic voter lumpenproletariat fall into this range, where they're willing to buy a rainbow Frappuccino but not suffer from commute slowdown due to a protest.