Sublime

certain concepts remain fixed, especially risk and victimization.

Rawls and Heidi simply assume that there is some “unencumbered self,” as political philosopher Michael Sandel puts it,2 independent of and prior to the affiliations that constitute my identity, and that we can somehow imagine the preferences of these unencumbered selves as they organize themselves politically. But, in fact, we only have preferences

The language of violence that many whites use to describe antiracist endeavors is not without significance, as it

The second is the idea that if someone is a good person, that person cannot be racist, as demonstrated in the student’s note that if someone overheard, the person might “misunderstand” Robby. This sort of racism makes for a very challenging dynamic in which whites are operating under the false assumption that we can’t simultaneously be good people

W. E. B. Du Bois taught us this, and we teach it to our students. Whiteness was offered as a promise. Precarity makes it less sturdy. There are White people who work hard all of their lives and Whiteness gives them little materially. On the other hand, there are White people who come from powerful edifices, who can point to paintings on Vanderbilt’

convictions

Leftism is inherently about being “disloyal” to one’s group but in service to a higher moral principle.

Kantian philosophy?

pervasiveness, magnitude, and normalcy of white dominance and assumed superiority.