Apple, Here We Come!
We are posting here our first Podcast episode of CrossTalk! Unfortunately, Sinclair could not be in the first episode, but he will make an appearance from now on. It's 30 minutes long, short for a lot of podcasts, and covers tolerance in today's American society. Nick discusses the "tolerati", Greg Gutfeld's societal revelation, and what needs to happen from here on out. We're working with Apple and iTunes to get it up, but you can listen to it here first!
First, I don't think that the definition of tolerance has changed at all. Tolerance is a bare minimum standard of not verbally attacking, disparaging, physically assaulting, and prohibiting others from participation in society. We've moved on to a more progressive, and I would argue, healthier, baseline of actively supporting those who are explicitly oppressed by laws that target people of color or the LGBT community , racist immigration policies, and gendered aspects of the law and society.
ReplyDeleteI think that this double standard that you're talking about is a kind of natural thing. We need to stick up more for people who have beliefs that are not seen as prototypical American. That comes with recognizing white privilege, heterosexual privilege, or male privilege.
Also I really don't know who was non-Obama supporters racist?? I think the biggest source of that kind of talk was conservative media amplifying what some people said out of context. There are very real issues with mainstream politicians being racist, not so much by being outspoken against black people, but by carrying with them and policies that dehumanize people of color in the US who depend on welfare or waging war against non-White, non-Christian, populations around the world.
"There's only a school for white people" --> funny that they actually functionally have a lot of those, no?
I think the reason that there aren't white pride t-shirts has to do with all of the violence that was perpetrated in the name of white pride. People can hold and express all kinds of opinions and messages of white pride outside of schools-- they do that, but in schools, because of the message of hate that *was* (and perhaps still is) associated with white pride, or white supremacy groups, bringing those messages to school is really dangerous.