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Brittney, you refer to these white people as & #39;liberals.& #39; If you& #39;re speaking to liberals, you are coming at this backwards. We are not & #39;choosing black people to learn & earn diversity cookies from.& #39; We are consistently supporting liberals some of whom are black. (Thread to follow) https://twitter.com/ProfessorCrunk/status/1274698133289738240">https://twitter.com/Professor...
It is not liberals who believe that knowledge is tied to identity & so we do not believe there is an & #39;authentic black voice& #39; that white people can learn from. This is a Social Justice scholarship & activism thing while liberalism focuses on the individual & common humanity.
The difference between SocJus & liberal anti-racism when it comes to listening to people of racial minority is thus: We both ascribe more value to the people who share our core principles, but liberals can be open about it because we think consistent principles are a good thing.
We don& #39;t have the same need you do to claim to be listening to people because of their identity because we don& #39;t think that& #39;s a good thing. Therefore we don& #39;t have to tie ourselves in the same knots you do when you try to explain why some black people are authentic & some are not
You might have to go on about the difference between being & #39;racially black& #39; and & #39;politically black& #39; in order to make the people who agree with you authentic black people and the others not so much. We don& #39;t have to. We can think they are all authentic but some of them are wrong.
The ideas of Candace Owens? Mostly factually & ethically wrong. The ideas of Kimberlé Crenshaw? Mostly factually & ethically wrong. They& #39;re not the wrong ideas for black people. They& #39;re the wrong ideas to create a just society.
This doesn& #39;t mean that we need to deny that when it comes to talking about anti-black racism, the people who will have had most experience of it will be black & thus be in a better position to describe the material & psychological impact of it.
It does mean that we recognise that black people have a wide range of ethical positions on the matter of anti-black racism & advocate a wide range of solutions to them. This doesn& #39;t make any of them more or less authentically black & the idea that it does is really quite racist.
Liberals who value an evidence-based epistemology & reasoned arguments will evaluate any individual& #39;s ideas on this basis. This just works much better than pointing at a black individual saying everything is racist or nothing is racist & declaring them the authentic black voice.
