How’s this for an own goal? Imagine being a professor whose entire career is based on a single premise — and then blowing that premise out of the water with a single tweet.
Ibram X. Kendi, known to his mum and dad as “Ibram Henry Rogers”, is one of the most influential proponents of the racist nonsense known as “Critical Race Theory”. Its central premise is the odious doctrine of “White Privilege”, the notion that white people enjoy implicit societal advantages, simply by virtue of the colour of their skin.
On Friday, Kendi shared a news article of a recent survey that discovered more one-third of white students lied or misrepresented their race on college applications […]
“More than a third of White students lied about their race on college applications, and about half of these applicants lied about being Native American. More than three-fourths of these students who lied about their race were accepted,” Kendi wrote on Twitter.
Now, why on earth would they do that, if being white is an inherent advantage? Indeed, why would it be such a successful strategy to pretend to not be white, if white people enjoy insurmountable societal advantages?
Apparently, those very questions belatedly occurred to the esteemed professor.
Kendi later deleted his tweet.
The tweet, and its deletion, did not go unnoticed.
Kendi’s deletion incited an avalanche of mockery. In sharing the news article, Kendi’s critics said he was undermining what he believes about white privilege and systemic racism in America.
As the Post Millennial wrote, “[I]f white privilege is so prevalent and persuasive, why would white kids feel the need to disguise their whiteness in order to gain admittance to college and aid to help them attend? Could it be that these white students felt that as opposed to giving them an edge, their whiteness was a hindrance to admittance?”
As others noted, Kendi’s tweet “undermines his whole worldview that the US is an incredibly racist country where the system is rigged exclusively for White people”. Journalist Andy Ngo accused Kendi of deleting the tweet “after realizing it didn’t advance his argument that whites are privileged in every way”.
“[That feeling when] you accidentally blow up your entire life’s work in a tweet and have to delete,” Alex Griswold mocked.
Oh dear, oh dear, what’s a self-respecting “anti-racist” to do, when he’s just made a mockery of his entire career? Why, cry “racism!” of course.
Kendi accused one critic of lying about what he had said. That critic, Jack Posobiec, then responded that he “broke” Kendi.
In response, Kendi said that Posobiec’s “broke” remark “has a long history within racist structures.” Kendi then claimed criticism from white people is “violent.”
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The only “violence” Kendi has experienced is his self-inflicted third-degree burn.
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