OPINION: Civility, Moral Outrage and ‘Unseeing’ Race
Larry Haiven | The Chronicle Herald
A number of years ago I got into a local taxi. The driver, seeing that I was white, soon started disparaging people of colour. I could have been polite. I could have tried patiently to dissuade him. But I did the opposite.
I “lost” it. With all the white male academic privilege at my disposal, I yelled at him at the top of my voice, then demanded his name and taxi licence number saying I would report him to the authorities (which I later did). I told him to let me out of the car and I refused to pay him. Continue reading →
Civility, Moral Outrage and ‘Unseeing’ Race Larry Haiven | The Chronicle Herald
OPINION: Civility, Moral Outrage and ‘Unseeing’ Race
Larry Haiven | The Chronicle Herald
I “lost” it. With all the white male academic privilege at my disposal, I yelled at him at the top of my voice, then demanded his name and taxi licence number saying I would report him to the authorities (which I later did). I told him to let me out of the car and I refused to pay him. Continue reading →
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