In order to state or set forth the meaning of a word, you can’t use that word to define or describe itself.
Apparently the foremost ‘expert’ in anti-racism hasn’t learned that lesson. Someone asked Ibram X. Kendi to define racism.
You’d think that this would have been a pretty easy question for someone who throws the term at everything hoping it’ll stick.
“I would define it as a collection of racist policies, that lead to racial inequity, that are substantiated by racist ideas.”
So ergo, anti-racism, according to Dr Kendi, would be:
“Anti-racism is a collection of anti-racist policies leading to racial equity that are substantiated by anti-racist ideas.”
Stunning erudition.
Please note that he is a professor at Boston University, has authored five books, and has garnered a shite-ton of awards.
And that’s the best he could come with for a definition of a term upon which he’s banked his entire career.
He’s certainly no Elie Wiesel.
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