Some of this has to do with the v far left's gobblefunking (to use Roald Dahl's term) words.
To understand what is going on, you need to know that the term 'white supremacy' had its meaning altered. I thought this article by the Journal of Free Black Thought was very good at explaining the different sorts of race ideology. https://freeblackthought.substack.com/p/race-ideology-in-practice The terminology the capture AEA used was from the neo-reconstructralists such as DiAngelo and Kendi. The theories are actually highly contested but because of the pandemic and certain zealots they have captured many institutions.
I personally think the discredited Smithsonian poster which details English Common Law (ie the use of precedent and innocent until proven guilty) as being something which White Supremist and therefore shunned is very revealing about their intentions. If you substitute Western Civilisation, you might get closer to the gobblefunked meaning.
Nigel Biggar's Colonialism (which will be publish in the US in May) also looks at some of the flaws of the decolonialization movement and points out how performative it is. Sin always lie over there and not with the anti-colonialist as he terms them. In many ways, the rhetoric claims the mantle of the oppressed while the action ignores them. The French philosopher Pascal Buckner said 'in Western self-hatred, the Other has no place.'
Part of the problem is also Presentism another aspect of what you have experienced -- the need for the past to be judged by today's standards and to be found profoundly wanting. This is very different from Contextualization. From the history, you shared the AEA has a common thread of being at the forefront of social change and that is something to be proud of.
I would also mention the problem with the Actors' Equity being made open to all (or all who choose to pay) cheapens the value of product.
I hear ya. But we all know what white supremacist means. And the woke loooove to redefine terms, like Lucy Van Pelt, they're always moving the football.
Some of this has to do with the v far left's gobblefunking (to use Roald Dahl's term) words.
To understand what is going on, you need to know that the term 'white supremacy' had its meaning altered. I thought this article by the Journal of Free Black Thought was very good at explaining the different sorts of race ideology. https://freeblackthought.substack.com/p/race-ideology-in-practice The terminology the capture AEA used was from the neo-reconstructralists such as DiAngelo and Kendi. The theories are actually highly contested but because of the pandemic and certain zealots they have captured many institutions.
I personally think the discredited Smithsonian poster which details English Common Law (ie the use of precedent and innocent until proven guilty) as being something which White Supremist and therefore shunned is very revealing about their intentions. If you substitute Western Civilisation, you might get closer to the gobblefunked meaning.
Nigel Biggar's Colonialism (which will be publish in the US in May) also looks at some of the flaws of the decolonialization movement and points out how performative it is. Sin always lie over there and not with the anti-colonialist as he terms them. In many ways, the rhetoric claims the mantle of the oppressed while the action ignores them. The French philosopher Pascal Buckner said 'in Western self-hatred, the Other has no place.'
Part of the problem is also Presentism another aspect of what you have experienced -- the need for the past to be judged by today's standards and to be found profoundly wanting. This is very different from Contextualization. From the history, you shared the AEA has a common thread of being at the forefront of social change and that is something to be proud of.
I would also mention the problem with the Actors' Equity being made open to all (or all who choose to pay) cheapens the value of product.
I hear ya. But we all know what white supremacist means. And the woke loooove to redefine terms, like Lucy Van Pelt, they're always moving the football.