I can see why Harvard took down some of the material from the website of their diversity office.
Harvard's Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (ODIB) posted a 27-page guide of their foundational concepts. Along with defining things such as "microagression," it included gems such as: "A Non-Racist: A non-term. The term was create…
I can see why Harvard took down some of the material from the website of their diversity office.
Harvard's Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (ODIB) posted a 27-page guide of their foundational concepts. Along with defining things such as "microagression," it included gems such as: "A Non-Racist: A non-term. The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of color (called “blaming the victim”). Responsibility for perpetuating and legitimizing a racist system rests both on those who actively maintain it, and on those who refuse to challenge it. Silence is consent."
I can see why Harvard took down some of the material from the website of their diversity office.
Harvard's Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (ODIB) posted a 27-page guide of their foundational concepts. Along with defining things such as "microagression," it included gems such as: "A Non-Racist: A non-term. The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of color (called “blaming the victim”). Responsibility for perpetuating and legitimizing a racist system rests both on those who actively maintain it, and on those who refuse to challenge it. Silence is consent."
https://web.archive.org/web/20210727120049/https://dib.harvard.edu/files/dib/files/odib_foundational_concepts_and_affirming_language_final.10.6.20.pdf
They even had two definitions for Anti—Racist:
1. As applied to White People: Being antiracist evolves with their racial identity
development. They must acknowledge and understand their privilege, work to change
their internalized racism, and interrupt racism when they see it.
2. As applied to People of Color: It means recognizing how race and racism have been
internalized, and whether it has been applied to other people of color.