SLR: #WhitesMustPay and what it means for future generations
In this article, Simon Lincoln Reader unpacks what racism means in different nations around the world. What does it mean to be ‘anti-racist’ enough? When will the idealism of social justice finally become a reality, and how is this possible? Is it feasible that future generations will be able to live without the shadows cast by racism and injustices of the past or will guilt perpetuate hyper-awareness of race and where we come from? – Melani Nathan
SLR: An analysis of the thinking behind #WhitesMustPay
By Simon Lincoln Reader*
Yesterday Beijing24 took a painful one. It wasn’t the usual sloppy remark or outrage porn or crisis acting passed off as analytical commentary, but the logical graduation of the effluent Gillian Schutte once composed (after wading in) or the genius trickery of Marius Roodt posing as Shelley Garland that cost the screeching editor of the ill-fated Huffington Post franchise her job. Alexander Strachan’s opinion column ‘Its time for whites to pay reparations’ was the literary equivalent of toppling Abraham Lincoln’s statue in Portland, on grounds that he wasn’t ‘anti-racist’ enough – a way of thinking almost identical to the speech the CCP’s man at the UN performed in 2020, condemning America for ‘systemic racism’ (this fellow’s wife sitting in the gallery may well have been wearing fake nails that once belonged to a tortured Uyghur – but we’ll never know).