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Notes from the Under Dog L.'s avatar

We need more Landsmans standing up to this madness. I find it utterly shocking that so many white people got vicious over a stupid black square that did absolutely nothing to stop George Floyd from flooding his system with fentanyl. George Floyd, the only person with COVID to die of "murder."

And don't you know it's white people who are hiring by race and "gender," acting as useful idiots to a cause that undermines and will destroy their own institutions with what should be obvious to anyone is a ridiculous, self-serving, vapid, useless perspective on race. And it's RACIST as all get out. Indeed, in my 60 years on this planet, the past few have been the most racist of them all.

It has occurred to me: If being around white people is so hard for certain non-white people, why don't they start their own institutions? Why don't they publish their own books? Why don't they open their own art galleries?

Can't the useful idiot white people in charge see what's happening here? They're allowing themselves to be narcissistically gaslit into sabotage.

And while it doesn't do any real harm that every single TV commercial features a black family, or a white woman married to a "black or brown" man, and every TV therapist is a black woman lording it over the mentally unstable white man --

People really do not appreciate it. And the irony is that Landsman's institution will be the last one standing when this is over.

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Skeptical but Optimistic's avatar

Lets not forget the Chicago museum that fired it's long time volunteer docents because they were white.

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Pacificus's avatar

Dog L, good comment, but you seem to underestimate the number of "useful idiot"white people who will gladly sing the DEI song so long as their position is protected...you know who you are.

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Skeptical but Optimistic's avatar

And their virtue signaling instrument stays tuned.

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Notes from the Under Dog L.'s avatar

Those "useful idiot white people who will gladly sing the DEI song so their position is protected..."

Are in a mad state of cognitive dissonance given they are pushing a narrative that replaces white people with other people....

And since I've witnessed with my own eyes too many a vapid singing of the DEI song, the pronoun badges, the pronoun email signatures, the black squares and the "compassionate" yet oblivious posts made in relatively safe neighborhoods, behind green lawns...

Can't say I have "underestimated" it at all. But I don't sing, refuse to teach that crap, and push back in meetings. I hope you're doing the same.

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Pacificus's avatar

"But I don't sing, refuse to teach that crap, and push back in meetings."

I don't get invited to meetings anynore as a result of my pushing back...but cheers to you, sounds as if you are fighting the good fight.

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Heyjude's avatar

Yes, I thought of Berry Gordy and Motown while reading this article. Certainly sounds as if the foundations would fall all over themselves to support members of "marginalized" groups in starting their own artistic endeavors. Instead it seems many prefer to just seize the institutions that others have spent their lives building.

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