Care-Bear Snippet from "Nazi Alert": Section 9 of White Supremacy on Its Deathbed
Let's workshop a paragraph from section 9 of White Supremacy on its Deathbed, a paragraph where a white student reports his white professor for the "violence" of quoting from a black movie
Care-Bear Snippet from “Nazi Alert”: Section 9 of White Supremacy on Its Deathbed
[White supremacy on its deathbed] could just sit back and revel in our world where, after the otherwise “woke” professor innocuously quotes a line from a popular black movie (’Mo Money), an outspoken student—a flamboyant white whose care-bear t-shirt features a nazi sign behind a red censorship slash and whose bookbag has a patch reeking of his cringey desire for the social capital of black-female friends (“Nasty Bitches ❤ BLM”)—reports to the dean of the department that, “as an ally,” he has been “harmed by the insensitivity” of the “casual appropriations” by “a professor whose whiteness already grants him too much power,” a reporting that results neither in the equally-pasty dean telling the student (seated on the leather fainting couch with arms crossed and voice shaking and eyes averted in nervous suspicion given all the family photos of whiteness) that it is downright illiberal to demand that professors of specific optics be restricted from quoting certain films nor in the dean at least encouraging the student to voice his feelings to the professor himself (in what might have become a truly bridge-building conversation); a reporting that results, instead, in the dean’s insistence (“on behalf of vulnerable populations especially”) that the student head straightaway to the grievance office—the dean, “an ally too” (like the rest of the administration), concerned about protecting the university’s antiracist branding even to the extent of torching the most cherished values of higher education: free expression and diversity of thought.
