THE HIGH PRICE OF STALE GRIEVANCES

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Power Line
John Hinderaker
June 6, 2018

That is the title of this essay by Columbia undergraduate Coleman Hughes. The piece is quite brilliant. More than that, Hughes must be one of America’s bravest young men.

Hughes’s subject is the double standard that is so often applied in favor of African-Americans. He begins with an anecdote about being selected to back the singer Rihanna on the MTV Video Music Awards. Several of his friends were chosen as well, but one of them, a “white Hispanic,” was then discharged because the “artistic team had decided to go for an all-black aesthetic.”

One thing, however, is clear. If the races were reversed—if a black musician had been fired in order to achieve an all-white aesthetic—it would have made front page headlines. It would have been seen as an unambiguous moral infraction.

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The essay itself isn't much longer and it's good.

[Oceander]

The piece is incredibly well-written.   It was originally published at the Quillette, I believe: https://quillette.com/2018/06/05/high-price-stale-grievances/

[Cyber Liberty]

We talk about "What if the situation were reversed?"  If the following quote from the article was spoken by a white man, how fast would the ramifications come to him, and would he be fired from his job?  Death threats?

Progressives ought not dodge the question: Why are blacks the only ethnic group routinely and openly encouraged to nurse stale grievances back to life?

[endicom]

The piece is incredibly well-written.   It was originally published at the Quillette, I believe: https://quillette.com/2018/06/05/high-price-stale-grievances/

Yes, it's impressive.

The article links to the Quillette essay.

[WingNot]

It was originally published at the Quillette, I believe: https://quillette.com/2018/06/05/high-price-stale-grievances/

The comments at the link are predictable.  I was hoping they wouldn't be.  But I see no hope for common ground on the subject.

[Oceander]

The comments at the link are predictable.  I was hoping they wouldn't be.  But I see no hope for common ground on the subject.

I didn’t even bother reading those.  The author’s prose - without regard to content - is so refreshingly good I didn’t want to kill the buzz by reading a lot of poorly-written querulous junk.