AmRen - Gregory Hood on the 'Whiteness Project' - The One-Way Conversation - "The producer, Mr. Dow, has already given the game away in interviews. However he frames it, he is trying to get whites to say the 'wrong' thing, so they can be corrected and reeducated."

The One-Way Conversation



The Whiteness Project and the silent minority.

It’s always a trap when a reporter, politician, filmmaker, or activist asks a white person what he thinks about race. As in a television interview, the purpose is not to exchange information or discover the truth, but to draw out a politically incorrect comment and then use it to hurt the person who made it. Because the Internet is a tool for silencing debate as much as generating it, white people who don’t want their lives destroyed because of a tweet or a comment know the value of strategic silence.

The PBS television series the Whiteness Project is supposed to “engender debate about the role of whiteness in American society and encourage white Americans to become fully vested participants in the ongoing debate about the role of race in American society.”

Already, you should hear alarm bells. Whether it’s in corporate “diversity training” or on a college campus, there’s no real debate about the role of race. There’s a monologue, in which whites are urged, scolded, and then finally forced to give unearned concessions to protected classes–in the name of combating “privilege.” White privilege, despite being unprovable and unfalsifiable, is an “invisible knapsack” of qualities responsible for the problems of everyone else. Like witchcraft in the Middle Ages, the charge alone creates the consequences of guilt. ...

http://www.amren.com/features/2014/11/the-one-way-conversation/