1)The war on higher education is deeply rooted in racism. When someone has spent their entire life being taught that Black and Brown people are inherently inferior, the idea of those same people surpassing them in intellect, qualification, income, or respectability is intolerable. - ThreadSky

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srslydude.bsky.social • 131 days ago

1)The war on higher education is deeply rooted in racism.
When someone has spent their entire life being taught that Black and Brown people are inherently inferior, the idea of those same people surpassing them in intellect, qualification, income, or respectability is intolerable.

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srslydude.bsky.social•131 days ago

2) White privilege fosters a worldview in which a Black person achieving success through education is not seen as the result of hard work and expertise but as a distortion, a trick, or a product of unfair advantage.

srslydude.bsky.social•131 days ago

3) Higher education is one of the great equalizers. In a rational society, one might acknowledge: "I do not have a PhD in physics, but this Black woman who is a respected physicist has worked hard, and her expertise is valuable."

srslydude.bsky.social•131 days ago

4) Instead, we hear: "Higher education is suspicious. I only trust what I see with my own eyes. She’s only in that position because of affirmative action, and we are being lied to."

srslydude.bsky.social•131 days ago

5) This distrust of higher education is, in part, an excuse for those who did not pursue it—an emotional defense against feelings of inadequacy. Compounded by the toxic influence of Calvinist-inspired Protestant work ethic,

srslydude.bsky.social•131 days ago

6) which ties self-worth to economic success, many white Americans experience both shame for their perceived failures and entitlement to success. Rather than acknowledging systemic class disadvantages, they blame “others” for taking what they believe is rightfully theirs.

srslydude.bsky.social•131 days ago

7) When higher education allows people who were once seen as “beneath” them to enter positions of power—whether as doctors, professors, or executives—it threatens the racial and social hierarchy they have come to accept as natural.

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