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True,
but irrelevant to the topic at hand.Based on the example below, Kendi is not an example of the hardline progressive position on race. He is not, for example, willing to argue that racism = power + prejudice.
[EDIT] - nope, lost my place in the thread. I would agree that it's straightforwardly true that Kendri is well past anything resembling a reasonable position. He is absolutely an ideological extremist of the sort that must be kept from power at any cost.
He means any policy that disproportionnately affects blacks in the 'blacks less likely' sense, ie, normal policy, as opposed to his Ministry of Gibs. An easy supermajority of whites are racists according to his definition. He's only not particularly extreme because the mainstream left is hardline already.
On the one hand, he's definately an extremist. On the other hand, there are certainly people significantly more extreme than he is still inside the apparent Overton Window, and with appreciable power and influence. Also, while acceding to his demands would be an prompt-critical disaster, it seems to me that most of what he's interested in demanding in terms of actual policy, we've already done. We have racial quotas, we've largely crippled law enforcement, we've enacted pervasive and effective censorship, so I'm not sure you're right that a supermajority of whites are racist by his definition. A good portion of whites would see nothing wrong with cheering him on. As you say,
I doubt that would absolve them of racism in his eyes, the whole spiel is about perpetually dangling that carrot. Perhaps @Stefferi can prove me wrong.
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