Tag: race
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Moral Confusion in Modern Times: A Rebuke of False Equivalence

The Event and Its Distorted Message In August, outside an Arlington County School Board meeting in Virginia, a small protest formed over a proposal to restrict transgender students from using bathrooms that do not align with their biological sex. Among the counter-protesters stood a man holding a hand-drawn sign that read, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t…
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On Racism: A Response to a Race Hustler

“Americans believe in the reality of ‘race’ as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism–the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce and destroy them–inevitably follows from this inalterable condition… But race is the child of racism, not the father.” Ta-Nehisi Coates. Between the World and Me. (New…