Definitely a First World conversation: the response by Dan-el Padulla Peralta, a “Person of Color” – who is also a professor at Princeton – to an opinion piece, “The colorblind bard,” by a conservative writer an intern editor at The New Criterion, Solveig Lucia Gold. Padilla’s jargon moves the conversation out of reach of even many First World educated readers.
Perhaps I should first “*race” myself: I’m white. And I also “want nothing to do with” white supremacists. (I purposefully did not say, “But,…”)
It is helpful that Padilla makes emphasizes that Gold’s essay coincided with his consideration of the events in Charlottesville. However, Padilla’s response is blatant political ranting, topped by describing as fact a” president whose white-supremacist enthusiasms are now as glaring as day” and “a presidency that has so far married an anti-intellectualism far exceeding Richard Hofstadter’s worst nightmares with the unapologetic implementation of a white-nationalist agenda.”
But tell me, what is Padilla’s alternative to “indulging” free speech?
*Padilla’s term. It seems important to him.
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