Anti-Racist Professor Claims George Floyd Murder ‘Reinforced White Epistemic Authority’
“whitewashed acknowledgement of anti-Black racism”
For the people who make their living talking about this stuff, it will never be enough.
The College Fix reports:
Anti-racism scholar: George Floyd’s death muted real talk about racism
A York University professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies and self-described “anti-racist activist within the university” recently issued a paper claiming George Floyd’s murder resulted in a “whitewashed acknowledgement of anti-Black racism” and “reinforced white epistemic authority.”
Enakshi Dua’s “Social Ignorance in Times of Conspicuous Racism” draws on her own experiences in higher education, a so-called “autoethnography” which in her words “produce[s] a temporal history of anti-racist action between 2001–2023.”
Dua, who teaches courses on feminist theory, anti-racist feminist theory, and postcolonial studies according to her faculty page, claims her “temporal tracing” of events in that timeframe “crucially allows” readers to see how higher ed’s anti-racist efforts ultimately were “disregarded, rejected, and brushed aside.”
Following Floyd’s murder (the professor appears to take issue that some called it a “death” prior to the actual court verdict), Dua says predominately white college administrators requested “asks” from anti-racist activists and academics which “ignore[d] the long history of anti-racist activism” and “thereby reinforc[ed] an epistemology of ignorance.”
The resonance of the rhetoric of ignorance to recuperate discourse of anti-Black racism points to the ways in which the responses to Floyd’s murder employed the legacy of the agreement to misinterpret the world, (re)producing a fanciful history that reestablishes a whitewashed acknowledgement of anti-Black racism while simultaneously reconstructing white epistemic authority.
In the post-Floyd aftermath, Dua claims the (continuing) denial of racism extended beyond that from white nationalists, that the acknowledgment of “unconscious bias” subsequently allows for it to “push[ed] away,” and that the use of “we” — as in “we” were all affected by Floyd’s death — is a “recentering [of] whiteness.”
“By tracing the ways in which anti-racism was articulated after George Floyd’s murder, when the social world was making the reality of anti-Black racism hypervisibile [sic], I have illustrated how the very rhetoric of ignorance allowed for the rearticulation of the saliency of the epistemology of ignorance—the agreement to misinterpret the world,” Dua writes.
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The irony here being that the anti-racists don’t actually understand what the word racist means. Ditto the fascist thugs who call themselves antifa. I miss the simpler times when these people could be dismissed as either mental or retarded, and the rest of us could then move on.
Clearly, George Floyd was not murdered.
On the day he died, he tried to pass phony money, and the shopkeeper called the cops.
He was a career criminal who decided he would eat his drugs, to prevent being caught with drugs.
MN railroaded the convicted police!
Another crazy Canadian chick, writing about what she doesn’t know she doesn’t know.
I wonder what dressing she’s using on the word salad.
‘Dua, who teaches courses on feminist theory, anti-racist feminist theory, and postcolonial studies according to her faculty page’
This explains why the university system has collapsed, young people are choosing not to attend higher education, and why colleges are bankrupt.
Does she get paid by the word? Problem with the Floyd case is, if it’s not viewed as flat-out murder, it joins the Damond case (who?) in the category of sometimes cops just get it wrong and, from time to time when it’s a white cop and a black perp, it’s just a mistake, noy systemic racism. As with Tyre Nichols (who? Nope. Floyd’s death has to be flat out murder, for The Cause.).
A lot of gobbledegook faculty lounge-speak signifying…nothing.
Can someone translate this into English? Or into any known language?
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