The narratives springing forth about the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6 are becoming more and more inventive.
We’ve seen claims that the riot’s participants were full of “white rage,” emboldened by the “addictive power” of white supremacy, and at least one academic blamed white America across the board (“fix your freaking families”) for the “insurrection.”
But Tuesday afternoon, an education professor from Middlebury College is taking the rhetorical blame up a notch. In a virtual lecture, Jonathan Miller-Lane will discuss the opportunity to “Facilitate the Demilitarization of White Bodies.”
According to the event description, the evidence that whiteness “is always weaponized” is omnipresent, exemplified by the 2017 Charlottesville riot, the Capitol mob or even the infamous dog-walking woman in New York City’s Central Park who threatened to call the police on a black bird watcher.
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