WRITERS: Zadie Smith
Sep. 20th, 2020 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineListening to this on the radio at the moment, after getting some morning and afternoon chores done here:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/zadie-smith-s-latest-book-intimations-reflects-deeply-on-isolation-and-injustice-1.5729946
"Racial contempt" as a concept...I accept that it's real. "Fear of poverty"? Also real. Also fear of poverty as a contagion...as a related concept. I am certain that I have been taught those latter two concepts, whether my teachers realized what they were doing as such or not. I hope I wasn't successfully taught racial contempt. I plan to assume the attempt was made to bake it into my education.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/zadie-smith-s-latest-book-intimations-reflects-deeply-on-isolation-and-injustice-1.5729946
"Racial contempt" as a concept...I accept that it's real. "Fear of poverty"? Also real. Also fear of poverty as a contagion...as a related concept. I am certain that I have been taught those latter two concepts, whether my teachers realized what they were doing as such or not. I hope I wasn't successfully taught racial contempt. I plan to assume the attempt was made to bake it into my education.
