>It's funny how the Damore defenders shed their free speech hucksterism like yesterday's underwear.
No, people are pointing out the racist double standard.
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> Nick Cannon apologized Wednesday night for comments he called "hurtful and divisive" after the television host and producer was dropped by ViacomCBS for remarks the company called anti-Semitic.
First sentence from your link, seems like maybe you are just trying to be controversial.
There are additional examples, but posting them and discussing the normalization of anti-white racism is "flamebait" and will get your account suspended on HN for "ideological battles".
In any case the fact that he hasn't been completely cancelled speaks to the unique status that anti-white racism has over other forms.
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tobesure commented on Covid deaths plunge after 75% of town's adults vaccinated bbc.com/news/world-latin-... · Posted by u/astdb
The anti-vaccine movement is not going to stop because these people are not persuaded by facts or arguments. Yes, we know epidemiology works. No, this proves nothing to people who do not listen.
It's dishonest to conflate people who are hesitant about covid vaccines with anti-vaxxers. No amount of "listening" will change the fact that all three vaccines are untested (it will take time for manifestation and detection of possible long term side effects), and the two primary vaccines are novel technologies.
The truth of the matter is that covid vaccination has its risks and they need to be weighed against those of the virus. And when you make an honest effort to perform such an evaluation, the choice is not quite so clear cut.
This is why the colorblind approach to solving racial issues failed. All it did was make us blind to the continuing harms of racism and there for unable to change those systems and solve those problems.
Kendi expands on it in great detail in his book "How to Be an Antiracist"
Here's a TED talk version of the explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxbl5QgFZw
This is a dangerously myopic view of the development of this country and more importantly it ignores progress over the last few decades.
The fact that blacks have not achieved representational parity or wealth equity yet does not mean that that the path of race blindness was not working. By all metrics it was working, and there must be room to discuss the internal cultural issues within the black community that account for the remaining lack of progress.
Instead by silencing any such criticism we are falsely blaming whites as a demographic for cultural change that is beyond their control, and artificially forcing transfer of power and wealth from said demographic in a misguided attempt to correct past wrongs, in a manner that is fundamentally at odds with the principles of meritocracy that are critical to a functioning society. Hiring minorities for the color of their skin is no better than hiring whites for the color of their skin.
The combination of a fundamentally racist theory/policy and vicious cancellation of anyone who publicly criticizes the movement is going to lead to severe backlash. It's immoral at its core. You can't have your cake and eat it too - either racism is acceptable and we have the freedom to discuss when and where it is acceptable, or racism is unacceptable. Wordplay with euphemisms which disguise the racist nature of CRT inspired policies is intellectually dishonest and not sustainable.