This is an excellent segment, Kimi. Thank you for your and MJW's contributions to this topic. It is telling that safetyism is the justification behind many of these racial affinity initiatives. It reminds me of Nassim Taleb's research on these trends in his book "Antifragile."
Housing segregation in urban areas will increase as whites flee high levels of crime and disfuncional schools totally lacking in the discipline necessary for learning. We need to have a national conversation about black crime and it’s acceptance within the black community. Why aren’t black political leaders like Barack Obama speaking out on this issue?
The discussion of safetyism prompts me to mention Pascal Boyer’s Minds Make Societies--- the evolutionary sociology perspective. He has a chapter entitled What is the Root of Group Conflict?, where he discusses the “ecology of modern ethnic diversity”. He reviews the academic literature* on “the ethnic density effect” where minority individuals are often in better health if they reside in nonintegrated neighborhoods, in ethnic enclaves, than if they are mixed with the host population.
Allow me to enlighten you just how widespread this neo-segregation is on campus:
* Segregated graduations: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/us/black-commencement-harvard.html
* Segregated PE Classes: https://cornellsun.com/2021/05/04/students-and-instructors-defend-bipoc-p-e-class-after-online-controversy/
* Segregated parties: https://web.archive.org/web/20180414062756/https://claremontindependent.com/scripps-hosts-segregated-pool-party/
* Segregated yoga classes for students: https://archive.is/KXTv9
* Segregated orientations: https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-san-francisco-host-blacks-student-orientation/
Also: https://www.thefire.org/news/investigation-portlands-lewis-clark-college-mandates-racial-segregation-orientation
* Segregated conferences: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/honest-conversations-race-power-digital-justice-a-bipoc-mini-conf-tickets-55452423692
And it's happening at the elementary and high school level too:
* Segregated faculty meetings: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/illinois-public-school-segregated-staff-meetings-equity-education-agenda/
* A segregated elementary class: https://atlantablackstar.com/2021/08/10/it-was-just-disbelief-parent-files-complaint-against-atlanta-elementary-school-after-learning-the-principal-segregated-students-based-on-race/
* Segregated math classes: https://archive.md/UuTzr
* Segregated playgrounds: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1470799371255967746
* Segregated student meetings: https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/education/douglas-anderson-plans-cancels-segregated-diversity-meetings/77-3d293413-e8a8-43b7-b4c8-5e548a54c3c7
This is an excellent segment, Kimi. Thank you for your and MJW's contributions to this topic. It is telling that safetyism is the justification behind many of these racial affinity initiatives. It reminds me of Nassim Taleb's research on these trends in his book "Antifragile."
Yes, I need to read Antifragile ASAP!
Housing segregation in urban areas will increase as whites flee high levels of crime and disfuncional schools totally lacking in the discipline necessary for learning. We need to have a national conversation about black crime and it’s acceptance within the black community. Why aren’t black political leaders like Barack Obama speaking out on this issue?
The discussion of safetyism prompts me to mention Pascal Boyer’s Minds Make Societies--- the evolutionary sociology perspective. He has a chapter entitled What is the Root of Group Conflict?, where he discusses the “ecology of modern ethnic diversity”. He reviews the academic literature* on “the ethnic density effect” where minority individuals are often in better health if they reside in nonintegrated neighborhoods, in ethnic enclaves, than if they are mixed with the host population.
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076993/
Boyer, Pascal. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create. Yale University Press (Ignition).