The University of Michigan-Dearborn and it's Center for Social Justice and Inclusion have apologized recently for racially segregating a meeting intended to foster discussion on racial reconciliation.
The Center for Social Justice and Inclusion hosted two virtual meetings to discuss racial issues, one of which was for people of color (POC) and the other for non-people of color. For what it's worth, "non-people of color" just means white. It was literally the same as saying it's a "White's only" meeting.
The intent behind this is a fantastic example of the horseshoe-theory of politics in action. I don't fully agree with the below diagram, but it gets the point across. Essentially the far-left and far-right sometimes look very similar in ways that you don't get in more moderate ideologies:
This segregation was an incredibly misguided attempt to create a "safe space" for people of color to discuss racism, and essentially a separate space for white people to discuss it.
Aside from the obviously segregation problem, I also wonder how they determined who was "white". Is somebody who is 1/8th black and 7/8ths European considered white? What about half and half (like Obama, who basically everyone considers black)? Are we going by the "one drop rule" here? This sounds like something the Nazis would do to determine who is part of the "master race".
If the far-right set up meetings, how similar would they look? I imagine they might also segregate them and invent measures to determine who is "white enough" to be in that meeting. It is disturbing, but also kind of amusing how incredibly misguided this effort was.
Almost all of the criticism for this event was only directed at the fact that there was an only white space. There was very little pushback against the all POC space.
With that said, this should be a wakeup call to everyone on the left. Don't embrace identity politics to a point where your actions resemble those of fascists. Don't be so open-minded your brain falls out. Focus on substantive issues that impact people's everyday lives, instead of dividing people up more based on irrelevant parts of their identity. This is not what the left needs to be about. Fortunately, many progressives (correctly!) think this series of actions is absurd and counterproductive.
Here is the article I got this information from: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/us/michigan-dearborn-cafes-segregated-trnd/index.html
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