Since I read that comic I've been pondering the history of "white guilt," which is an academic theory about a hurdle for teaching anti-racism to willing white people, guilt being a roadblock to necessary personal unpacking. It isn't ..... whatever that is - ThreadSky

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cathygjohn.bsky.social • 9 days ago

Since I read that comic I've been pondering the history of "white guilt," which is an academic theory about a hurdle for teaching anti-racism to willing white people, guilt being a roadblock to necessary personal unpacking. It isn't ..... whatever that is

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cathygjohn.bsky.social•9 days ago

It goes back to that Groundings episode I posted on Monday, they talk about this -- the habit of the internet pulling academic theories out of a critical argument framework and turning them into facts. White guilt isn't a fact of life, and it isn't literally a white person feeling guilty.

cathygjohn.bsky.social•9 days ago

And is it not a tool of white supremacy to create new definitions for words, to take a useful concept for anti-racism and turn it into something stupid, dismissing a much larger and important idea.