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The Whitest of Snowflakes - How the right are leveraging left-wing fragility by imitating it (+a free piece of music).
As is so often the case, the right-wing are cleverly leveraging one of the left's most currently-cherished mean of expression - performative fragility - in order to promote, as the left has, the banning of books and butchering of curricula across the country.
The right used to make fun of the left's protestations of fragility, but now they're joining in, proclaiming that white folks, especially Christian white folks, will feel unacceptable shame if forced to look at America's brutal history towards non-whites and non-Christians.
All of these complaints, on the right and the left, are based un a fundamental misunderstanding of what education, and in an even broader sense, knowledge, are for...
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By Samuel McKenney Claiborne
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As is so often the case, the right-wing are cleverly leveraging one of the left's most currently-cherished mean of expression - performative fragility - in order to promote, as the left has, the banning of books and butchering of curricula across the country.
The right used to make fun of the left's protestations of fragility, but now they're joining in, proclaiming that white folks, especially Christian white folks, will feel unacceptable shame if forced to look at America's brutal history towards non-whites and non-Christians.
All of these complaints, on the right and the left, are based un a fundamental misunderstanding of what education, and in an even broader sense, knowledge, are for...