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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
I think the white race, as a social construct existed, but not "whiteness". I mean, is Chili's a white restaurant, is Churches Chicken a "black" restaurant? What characteristics and attributes makes someone white? CRT will tell you whole bunch of stuff.
I mean, just as a matter of logic, if there is a white race, then there is "whiteness." Maybe you understand it differently than in CRT. And yes, of course there were white and black restaurants - segregation was a major feature of American society, extending to restaurants before the invention of CRT. More recently, when I lived in Crown Heights I used to go to a Jamaican restaurant that had really good vegetarian food. I'd consider that a black restaurant.
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I agree that person sounds like a racist, but that person is Derek Bell, and in the video he clearly indicated capitalism is built on exploitation, and he clearly was drawing a parallel between the exploited and black people, and white people as the exploiters, and while he does not explicitly state, but it's pretty clear he means "whiteness" or "white supremacy" as defined by CRT proponents (i.e. white culture prevalent in mainstream society that exploits POC's) that is irremediable. Let's test your idea that whiteness is not redeemable. Name a positive characteristic of "whiteness".
You're going to have to give me a better cite than a 2-hour long talkshow for this on Derrick Bell. I know that he was a pessimist about race, he thought that American society would always remain racist, which I don't regard as racist, nor as equivalent to saying that "whiteness is irredeemable." Also, exploitation has a specific meaning in Marxism, it refers to the forced appropriation of the surplus value created by the working class's labor. Not sure exactly what is meant here.
As for a positive characteristic of "whiteness," I'll say, baseball.