О легитимации
Трамп еще не стал президентом, а Америка уже почти great again. Там, где еще вчера, народ стонал под ярмом политкорректности, сегодня уже такая свобода, о которой наши деды могли только мечтать.
Вернее, это мы только мечтали о ней, для дедов это как раз было естественным положением вещей.
Месяц назад случился очень небольшой шум по поводу того, что некая Pamela Ramsey Taylor, the Clay County Development Corp. director, написала в Фейсбуке: “It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House. I’m tired of seeing a Ape in heels,” а Clay County Mayor, Beverly Whaling, отозвалась на этот пост: “Made my day Pam.”
Ramsey, вроде, уволили, а Whaling, которая мэр, ушла в отставку. Но, как оказалось, Ramsey не уволили, она на днях должна вернуться на работу.
Я не испытываю никаких сильных чувств по поводу новости о возвращении Ramsey. Возмжно, suspension было для нее достаточным наказанием, а может, даже и слишком сильным наказанием. О ее должности я ничего не знаю.
Другое дело, что, думаю, до Трампа эти женщины, скорее всего, просто не стали бы постить про "Ape in heels". А сейчас подобное поведение будет проявляться все чаще и все более открыто. Уже проявляется все чаще и все более открыто.
Я понимаю, что многие мои читатели приветствуют это развитие событий -- свобода слова ведь. Одако, поставьте себя на место меньшинств. Мне очень понравилась формулировка из этой статьи: Donald Trump expressed unbridled enthusiasm for discrimination against Mexican Americans, Muslims, and black people. Even fellow Republican Paul Ryan accused him of making “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”
Yet he suffered no measurable consequences. He won the election, delivering a clear message: Politicians don’t even need to bother with hiding their racist appeals in dog whistles anymore. He went on to appoint Steve Bannon, whose primary professional accomplishment was mainstreaming white nationalism at the helm of Breitbart News. He selected Jeff Sessions, who, in 1986, was deemed too racist to be a federal judge. Today, he’s the next likely head of the Department of Justice.
An early, alarming sign of the trickle-down effect of this messaging - that bigotry isn’t unacceptable, or something to be ashamed of and conceal - was its presence in schools: A November 28 report revealed that, in the weeks after the election, four in 10 teachers surveyed by the Southern Poverty Law Center said they had heard derogatory language directed at students of color, Muslims, and immigrants and comments toward people based on gender or sexual orientation.
Just this week, the LA Times published two letters that defended, and treated lightly, World War II internment of Japanese Americans [...]
In a similar decision to put racist views on display in the name of healthy debate, Tomi Lahren enjoyed a platform on The Daily Show early this month. The online commentator who’s been dubbed the “Queen of the alt-right” is a darling of white nationalist racist group [...]
Sure, host Trevor Noah disagreed strongly with her opinions, and delighted many viewers with his sharp retorts. But critics argued that the civil exchange (not to mention the cupcakes the Daily Show team sent to her afterward) legitimized Lahren in a way that represented a disturbing shift toward placing beliefs about white superiority and black inferiority in the realm of reasonable differences of opinion.
Incidents like these have combined to send a message to nonwhite people that becomes louder and clearer each day: “It’s not that your race definitely makes you worth less, but the question is definitely up for discussion.”
Если вам сразу не очевидно, в чем тут проблема, сделайте замену на еврея, и подумайте, как бы вы себя чувствовали. И дело не только в чувствах, конечно. The problem with this shift isn’t just that racism is offensive or hurtful. It’s that the beliefs that are creeping their way into the realm of fine-to-admit-in-public acceptability are the same ones that fuel real-life harm to nonwhite people: think racialized police violence, housing discrimination, and life-ruining discriminatory discipline by teachers.
Вернее, это мы только мечтали о ней, для дедов это как раз было естественным положением вещей.
Месяц назад случился очень небольшой шум по поводу того, что некая Pamela Ramsey Taylor, the Clay County Development Corp. director, написала в Фейсбуке: “It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House. I’m tired of seeing a Ape in heels,” а Clay County Mayor, Beverly Whaling, отозвалась на этот пост: “Made my day Pam.”
Ramsey, вроде, уволили, а Whaling, которая мэр, ушла в отставку. Но, как оказалось, Ramsey не уволили, она на днях должна вернуться на работу.
Я не испытываю никаких сильных чувств по поводу новости о возвращении Ramsey. Возмжно, suspension было для нее достаточным наказанием, а может, даже и слишком сильным наказанием. О ее должности я ничего не знаю.
Другое дело, что, думаю, до Трампа эти женщины, скорее всего, просто не стали бы постить про "Ape in heels". А сейчас подобное поведение будет проявляться все чаще и все более открыто. Уже проявляется все чаще и все более открыто.
Я понимаю, что многие мои читатели приветствуют это развитие событий -- свобода слова ведь. Одако, поставьте себя на место меньшинств. Мне очень понравилась формулировка из этой статьи: Donald Trump expressed unbridled enthusiasm for discrimination against Mexican Americans, Muslims, and black people. Even fellow Republican Paul Ryan accused him of making “the textbook definition of a racist comment.”
Yet he suffered no measurable consequences. He won the election, delivering a clear message: Politicians don’t even need to bother with hiding their racist appeals in dog whistles anymore. He went on to appoint Steve Bannon, whose primary professional accomplishment was mainstreaming white nationalism at the helm of Breitbart News. He selected Jeff Sessions, who, in 1986, was deemed too racist to be a federal judge. Today, he’s the next likely head of the Department of Justice.
An early, alarming sign of the trickle-down effect of this messaging - that bigotry isn’t unacceptable, or something to be ashamed of and conceal - was its presence in schools: A November 28 report revealed that, in the weeks after the election, four in 10 teachers surveyed by the Southern Poverty Law Center said they had heard derogatory language directed at students of color, Muslims, and immigrants and comments toward people based on gender or sexual orientation.
Just this week, the LA Times published two letters that defended, and treated lightly, World War II internment of Japanese Americans [...]
In a similar decision to put racist views on display in the name of healthy debate, Tomi Lahren enjoyed a platform on The Daily Show early this month. The online commentator who’s been dubbed the “Queen of the alt-right” is a darling of white nationalist racist group [...]
Sure, host Trevor Noah disagreed strongly with her opinions, and delighted many viewers with his sharp retorts. But critics argued that the civil exchange (not to mention the cupcakes the Daily Show team sent to her afterward) legitimized Lahren in a way that represented a disturbing shift toward placing beliefs about white superiority and black inferiority in the realm of reasonable differences of opinion.
Incidents like these have combined to send a message to nonwhite people that becomes louder and clearer each day: “It’s not that your race definitely makes you worth less, but the question is definitely up for discussion.”
Если вам сразу не очевидно, в чем тут проблема, сделайте замену на еврея, и подумайте, как бы вы себя чувствовали. И дело не только в чувствах, конечно. The problem with this shift isn’t just that racism is offensive or hurtful. It’s that the beliefs that are creeping their way into the realm of fine-to-admit-in-public acceptability are the same ones that fuel real-life harm to nonwhite people: think racialized police violence, housing discrimination, and life-ruining discriminatory discipline by teachers.