Let me just start this off by saying I am a liberal. I am pro-choice, pro gun control, pro single-payer, voted for Bernie in all the primaries, and will be voting for Biden this November. I think Trump is a piece of shit, racist idiot. I support none of Amy Coney Barrett's policies and want to wait until after the election (when hopefully Biden wins) for a more liberal and deserving nominee.That being said, the hate that BU College Republicans are getting is absolutely absurd. In my belief, their only wrongdoing is calling for Dr. Kendi's removal, when he, as a university professor, and a citizen of the United States of America, has the right to free speech. I actually found myself appalled not by the statement from BU college republicans, but from Dr. Kendi. For those who don't know, here is a quote of what he said in reference to Supreme Court nominee Barrett."Some white colonizers "adopted" Black children. They "civilized these "savage" children in the "superior" ways of white people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity."Dr. Kendi said all of this with a picture of Barrett and her family attached in his tweet. Dr. Kendi has the right to condemn Barrett. She is anti Roe v. Wade which makes her a POS in my book and unfit for the court. But bringing her family into it? Questioning her love for her literal children, even if they are adopted? Made me sick.Dr. Kendi is right that a lot of white people love to justify how not racist they are. While he said in a later tweet that it doesn't matter whether or not he is referring to Barrett and her family, it is pretty clear that the attached image suggests that she is possibly using her children to hide her racism. He is essentially using the argument that "just because you have a black friend/kid/whatever, doesn't mean you can't be racist." This is a valid argument.But, I can't help but be appalled by Dr. Kendi's implications. First of all, he implies that it can be racist to adopt children that don't look the same as you. It doesn't matter how good of a mother and how much Barrett loves her kids. He knows nothing about the close relationships of her family, and as far as I know, Barrett has never hid behind the argument "I'm not racist, my kids are black." Is it racist to save children from the mess that is foster care? Is it racist to save children from home environments where their parents can't take care of them for whatever reason? I am a foster child myself. I was saved by my mom and dad out of a terrible system. I am not the same race as my parents and I have never heard my white mother bring up how it was any different raising an Indian kid than it would be a white kid. Without knowing what kind of parent Barrett is, I found Dr. Kendi's implications to be pretty disgusting.Then, BU college republicans made a post about it. Their post was wrong in my eyes on one count: Dr. Kendi shouldn't lose his job over something like this because he has the right to free speech, but the pure ignorance in the comments was making me sick. So many people commenting without knowing the extent to which Dr. Kendi made harmful implications about Barrett and her family. The same people in the comments without mob mentality are also statistically never going to adopt a kid. Only 2-4% of American families adopt children. They know nothing about Barrett's family, and statistically will never adopt a family, yet when it comes to making hateful instagram comments and reposting it on their stories they are all up in arms. There were many people claiming that reverse racism doesn't exist, yet display disdain and hate for white people. And when people try to reason in the comments, from both sides, they are shut down without any sort of intellectual reasoning or debate. via /r/BostonU https://ift.tt/3inrXOk
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