Is Opposing Masks … Racist? By James Reed
It is the day job of professional ethnics and coloured folk, especially academics, to find some way of connecting whiteness, really meaning white people, to anything they or the system does not like. Thus, opposition to masks has been seen by one US professor as a product of whiteness. Well, is this backed up by comprehensive empirical data from surveys with statistically rigour methodologies? Of course not, it is just hear-say and speculation, like most of the Arts farts and social sciences.
“Hakeem Jefferson, a Stanford University professor, recently claimed opposition to masks at school board and council meetings was connected to “whiteness.”
“Make no mistake, this crazy opposition to mask wearing that is leading folks (read white ppl) to act violently at school board meetings & council meetings & everywhere else—yeah, you can’t disconnect it from whiteness,” he wrote in a Twitter post on August 17. “And discussions that don’t acknowledge this are incomplete.”:
In a subsequent post, Jefferson, an assistant professor of political science, said, “Ain’t like masks are comfortable for non-white people.”
“But you don’t see a bunch of Black folks storming meetings. And it’s not just cause these white folks are GOP. It’s cause they’re white, & believe whiteness confers upon them a kind of power that places them above gov action,” he continued:
Jefferson later wrote, “It’s like my reaction to jan6. You don’t have to be an expert in identity to know that whiteness is driving the behavior.”
“The crowds are overwhelming white. You think this just randomly happened? Nah, whiteness be working overtime. Like we say in the south, the devil is busy!” he said:
While some Twitter users agreed with Jefferson, others expressed their disagreement.
“Then they are busy on your behalf too if you want fair elections and not to be tyrannize by Covid mismanagement,” one person replied.
“You are one of these people who thinks rights and privileges should be taken away to create equality, as opposed to making sure they are extended to everyone. This is the saddest form of self inflicted harm. A twisted and racist form of Stockholm syndrome,” another commented.
Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) who is a physician specializing in urology, said during a recent interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “guidance” for masking children to prevent coronavirus transmission was not supported by scientific analysis or data.”
Thus we can see woke culture, anti-whiteness and the Covid New World Order, all joining the dots.”
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