No, Teaching About Racism Doesn’t Encourage “Victimhood”

Learning about injustice isn’t the problem — injustice itself is

Tim Wise
An Injustice!
Published in
6 min readAug 9, 2021

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In their attack on anti-racist education, conservatives insist that discussing racism’s historical and contemporary role in shaping America is destructive to young people and their self-image.

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Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)