I've said this before, but I was a DeSantis supporter in the primaries. I liked the fact that DeSantis followed through on his promises, such as stripping the funding for DEI departments from all Florida state schools. To be fair, President Donald Trump very late in his term promised to defund "anti-racism" training in federal offices, but we never got to see that followed through.
I find myself writing about "whiteness" a lot. Wanting to eradicate whites would be too extreme, so they came up with the concept of "whiteness," which is at the core of American society (and that's a bad thing). Asian Americans have been accused of tapping into whiteness to get ahead. But what is whiteness, and what makes it bad? Whiteness includes a belief in the scientific method, the belief that you get ahead through hard work, that you "worship" the written word, and that you see time as a commodity and therefore try to be punctual. The nuclear family is whiteness.
The Real Daily Wire did an investigation into some DEI training for the IRS; check it out:
‘DEAD HONKY’: Material in an IRS DEI training came from a trans academic who called for the 'Death Of Whiteness.'
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) February 20, 2024
A @realdailywire investigation into the training obtained by @JudicialWatch reveals the radicalism of the training's origins.
Will the next admin #FireWokeFeds? 🧵 pic.twitter.com/erRe0kxISx
"Critical whiteness studies."
This slide from a DEI training given to IRS criminal investigators came from Dafina-Lazarus Stewart, a black trans ‘Critical Whiteness Studies’ academic who called on other academics “to commit to realizing the death of whiteness” by taking up the “verbal effigy ‘dead honky.’” pic.twitter.com/t64CWjxIbs
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) February 20, 2024
Stewart claims “Whiteness is itself a violence,” and “Whiteness pretends to be innocent” but “creates terror and violence.”
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) February 20, 2024
But who was responsible for the training? We’ve got some clues. pic.twitter.com/8mVQgpmmHE
The IRS has an Office of DEI, led by Chief Diversity Officer Carrie Holland, who is estimated to make $200k a year.
— Spencer Lindquist 🇺🇸 (@SpencerLndqst) February 20, 2024
Holland's predecessor said that the role is responsible for "ensuring training" on DEI.
But the DEI agenda could come under fire amid a plan to #FireWokeFeds... pic.twitter.com/qZLy4YTc6J
Spencer Lindquist writes:
The DEI training, obtained by Judicial Watch, was part of a mandatory continuing education program at the IRS, and began with a section by Dafina Lazarus Stewart titled, “Cultural Inclusion Is About Justice.” Stewart, a transgender-identifying woman, chairs a department at the University of Denver and has focused much of her academic work on “whiteness,” even calling on other academics to “commit to the death of whiteness.”
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“Critical whiteness studies (CWS) in the field of higher education fails to account for … technologies of violence that characterize whiteness and which whiteness employs,” Stewart writes in the journal article. “I theorize technologies of (white) violence as enactments of: (1) malicious white terror; (2) rhetorical white innocence, mobilized through white contempt and white transmission; and, (3) pacifying white concession.”
As we've reported, these attempts to "decenter whiteness" can be seen in public school math classes, in which showing your work is whiteness and where two plus two can sometimes equal five.
Look how desperately Mark Cuban has tried (and failed) to fight for DEI, appalled by Elon Musk's suggestion that people be hired based on merit. That's whiteness.
Federal employees are forced to sit through these seminars so the white ones can recognize their privilege and step aside so that marginalized voices can be heard.
So what will the country look like after the death of whiteness? What's the goal? As James Lindsay says, the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.
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