Things I have been called a racist for advocating on the board:
*It’s a good policy to forfeit high school football games to punish players for assaulting referees.
*Children are better off when raised by two parents.
*Cartoonists have a free speech right to draw images of Mohammed without being murdered.
*The behavior of an Arab Muslim from Syria is not a good example of “white pathology.”
*School boards in Virginia should follow the law governing magnet school admissions procedures.
*Selective schools in general should not use race as a factor in admissions.
*Advanced students should be able to take calculus in high school.
*Certain decisions about the math curriculum made by the school board in Vancouver (a city with effectively 0 black residents) are not correct.
*Medicare for All would increase wait times for care.
Now, you are welcome to disagree with my opinions on any of these matters, but if you can’t see the absurdity here, you are being willfully obtuse.
It simply is not tenable to, all the same time:
*Divide every possible issue, no matter how much contortion it takes to find a racial element, into the “racist” and “non-racist” position (an approach which is itself part of the ideology that shall not be named)
*Refuse to engage with/penalize “racism” as defined above
*Claim that we have or want a forum where issues are “debated”
You cannot have a debate forum when every single possible subject of debate has a pre-determined correct position and every other position is disallowed. You can’t. It’s not possible. Period.