Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession with Civility - Alex Zamalin
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The first history of racial injustice to examine how civility and white supremacy are linked, and a call for citizens who care about social justice to abandon civility and practice civic radicalism.
The idea and practice of civility has always been wielded to silence dissent, repress political participation, and justify violence upon people of color. Although many progressives today are told that we need to be more polite and thoughtful, less rancorous and angry when we talk about race in America, civility maintains rather than disrupts racial injustice.
Spanning 200 years, Zamalin’s accessible blend of intellectual history, political biography, and contemporary political criticism shows that civility has never been neutral in its political uses and impacts. The best way to tackle racial inequality is through “civic radicalism”, an alternative to civility found in the actions of Black radical leaders including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Audre Lorde. Civic radicals shock and provoke people. They name injustice and who is responsible for it. They protest, march, strike, boycott, and mobilize collectively rather than form alliances with those who fundamentally oppose them.
In Against Civility, citizens who care deeply about racial and socioeconomic equality will see that they need to abandon this concept of discreet politeness when it comes to racial justice and instead more fully support disruptive actions and calls for liberation, which have already begun with movements like #MeToo, the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, and Black Lives Matter.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 4/5
February 15th, 2021
Marxists believe that moral principles, like “civility”, are historically relative. This means they’re only obligatory when they’re to your side’s advantage and the other side’s disadvantage. As soon as any moral principle becomes inconvenient, it can be dropped. After all, consistency doesn’t matter as much as winning.
I maintain that people who hold this view really are inferior and need people who don’t hold this view to rule over them for their own good. To the extent that this author’s views represent blacks, we must conclude that blacks really are inferior.
A genuine movement for the advancement of blacks would not be pulling them down to wallow in the black pit of moral relativism with this subhuman filth. It would instead be raising them up to have a higher moral standard than whatever enemies they may have, not a lower one.
February 15th, 2021
What a load of rubbish!!!!!!
February 15th, 2021
Thank you!
February 15th, 2021
Is there anybody else out there that is tired of this rubbish?
February 15th, 2021
Boy, they can find “hidden racism” in everything these days, can’t they.
February 15th, 2021
Racist are ‘big mad’ so you know its a good book!
Thank you!
March 1st, 2021
InsaneCrazyMad is precisely that. I can’t vouch for Alex Zamalin’s views precisely, because I’m only just downloading the audiobook now. But as a Marxist, I’ll say that InsaneCrazyMad is a nutjob.
March 9th, 2021
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X—I don’t seem to recall any of them fighting “hidden” racism. Funny, that.
April 9th, 2021
psients - I believe the “hidden racism” refers to the tolerance of racist remarks or racist insinuations or racist stereoyping in social settings. And it might also refer to the “hidden racism” of those who [comfortable with the racist status quo] push for only gradual change that doesn’t upset people, or cost much money, etc. The heroes of the Black freedom struggle you name in your comment did indeed fight against this “hidden” racism. It is largely what MLK was writing about in his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
April 22nd, 2021
The Letter from Birmingham Jail appealed to Aquinas’s natural law theory and to the national philosophy of the United States for its premises — which are classical ideas, not any modernist or post-modernist academic theory. If you reject these classical premises as racist then you’ve let go of the support for Dr. King’s conclusions. Why should we believe Dr. King if his premises weren’t sound?
Furthermore, how does invoking Dr. King help you in this argument against basic civility? Why should I even listen to someone who explicitly says they are arguing against basic civility? Why should I not simply beat the tar out of them instead of listening to them?
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