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You are here: Home / Article Elsewhere / Debate & Disinformation Regarding the CRED Report

May 17, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

Debate & Disinformation Regarding the CRED Report

In his careful and thorough review of the hasty, partisan and unreasoned criticisms of the Commission for Racial and Ethnic Disparities Report, Damian Counsell, writing in Quillette, concludes:

The commissioners’ hope that public clarification might encourage their critics to be more careful and fair-minded is almost certainly forlorn. For a particular kind of anti-racist, there will never be social justice or an end to institutional racism in the UK because a faith-based belief in systemic problems cannot be shaken by measurement, especially if inspired by that modern form of personal revelation, “lived experience.” I am not even claiming these activists are wrong; I am merely pointing out that no evidence would be sufficient to persuade them that they are wrong.

 

Read more here:
https://quillette.com/2021/05/17/debate-and-disinformation-the-ugly-quarrel-over-the-uk-governments-race-report/

Filed Under: Article Elsewhere Tagged With: anti-racism, Commission for Racial and Ethnic Disparities Report, Featured, methodology

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