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If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that [[Asia]]n Americans, [[India]]n Americans, and [[Nigeria]]n Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even [[Jewish]] Americans are incarcerated less than [[gentile]] whites. I think it’s fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews.

If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that [[Asia]]n Americans, [[India]]n Americans, and [[Nigeria]]n Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even [[Jewish]] Americans are incarcerated less than [[gentile]] whites. I think it’s fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews.

None of this is addressed in your [[literature]]. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and [[ad hominem]]s. “Those are racist dogwhistles”. “The model minority myth is white supremacist”. “Only [[fascist]]s talk about black-on-black crime”, ad nauseam. These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing [[orthodox]]y [[tactic]]s they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and [[religion]]s throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.

None of this is addressed in your [[literature]]. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and [[ad hominem]]s. “Those are racist dogwhistles”. “The model minority myth is white supremacist”. “Only [[fascist]]s talk about black-on-black crime”, [[ad nauseam]]. These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing [[orthodox]]y [[tactic]]s they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and [[religion]]s throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.

Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM’s problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number.

Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM’s problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number.