“This becomes painfully clear when it is one’s own city that is being attacked. I had cycled through the neighborhood a mere 30 minutes before the attack commenced.”
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Author: Gerfried Ambrosch
How to Be a Non-Racist
“Non-racism, thus understood, implies colorblindness, not in the sense of literally not seeing skin color, but in the sense of treating it as insignificant.”
When Identity Politics Meets the Punk Scene
“But to me, an observer with intimate knowledge of punk’s radical history, much of today’s woke rhetoric feels like a throwback.”
Blackface: When Nuance Meets Taboo
“One of the first lessons my students of undergraduate literary studies learn about text analysis is to distinguish between internal and external communication.”
No, Antifa Is Not Synonymous with “Anti-fascism”
“So, in the same way that a country with the word ‘democratic’ in its name tends to be anything but, Antifa appears overwhelmingly to be anti-fascist in name only.”
Navigating Whiteness: Between White-Shaming and White Indigenous Rights
“White-shaming is a political tactic aimed at invalidating the opinions and experiences of people of European descent. Premised on a belief in collective guilt, it judges white folks not by the content of their character but by the color of their skin.”
The Many Problems with Marxism
“I recently met up with an old friend, a staunch Marxist, at a traditional Viennese café to catch up and talk about our political differences. After hours of discussion, he admitted, ‘Well, ultimately, it’s a question of faith.'”