Glad to see this perspective represented, everything I’ve read about this makes me think it’d have been a poor experience and the consistent arguments I see in favor of flavors of scientific racism in this community. It’s one thing to have opinions, it’s another to just ignore the amount of scholarship done on the topics folks like him spout off about, generally uninformed.
It’s most objectionable from a policy perspective, as I do not think folks like this need to be anywhere near policy making, nor should they be given platforms to influence malleable people on these topics without some kind of informed counterweight.
The consistent commentary here seems to imply there is no black person who would fit this bill, but given the rampant diversity of black folks across the spectrum in other political and academic spaces, it’s less that there aren’t people, and more that this siloed community seems hostile that sort of participation.
Glad to see this perspective represented, everything I’ve read about this makes me think it’d have been a poor experience and the consistent arguments I see in favor of flavors of scientific racism in this community. It’s one thing to have opinions, it’s another to just ignore the amount of scholarship done on the topics folks like him spout off about, generally uninformed.
It’s most objectionable from a policy perspective, as I do not think folks like this need to be anywhere near policy making, nor should they be given platforms to influence malleable people on these topics without some kind of informed counterweight.
The consistent commentary here seems to imply there is no black person who would fit this bill, but given the rampant diversity of black folks across the spectrum in other political and academic spaces, it’s less that there aren’t people, and more that this siloed community seems hostile that sort of participation.