I drilled into this - because this is so pants-on-head insane that it should be called out and these people shunned.
But the screenshot is taken out of context. If you read Kendi's entire thread, he's trying to explain that if Hitler adopted a Jew, that doesn't suddenly make Hitler not an antisemite. He's applying this abstract concept to racism.
Entire thread:
Some White colonizers "adopted" Black children. They "civilized" these "savage" children in the "superior" ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity.
And whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can't be racist.
I’m challenging the idea that White parents of kids of color are inherently “not racist” and the bots completely change what I’m saying to “White parents of kids of color are inherently racist.” These live and fake bots are good at their propaganda. Let’s not argue with them.
I drilled into this - because this is so pants-on-head insane that it should be called out and these people shunned.
But the screenshot is taken out of context. If you read Kendi's entire thread, he's trying to explain that if Hitler adopted a Jew, that doesn't suddenly make Hitler not an antisemite. He's applying this abstract concept to racism.
Entire thread:
https://twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1309916696296198146
It's a bullshit strawman argument that doesn't hold water.