UCバークレイ大学・歴史学教授（黒人）のオピニオン。何故反BLM(Black Lives Matter)なのか。彼の意見も凡人とまったく同じ。この記事にあるように、サンフランシスコ市ではアジア（中国）系の住人が黒人犯罪者の餌食、それが頂点に達しているらしい。初耳であるが、そういう犯罪はどこも似たり寄ったり。だから中国人に限らず、白人や日本人やその他の人種だってみな黒人を警戒している。それをだ、黒人差別だ、黒人の命は大切だなんだとほざいてデモやしまいには暴動し、略奪三昧している光景をビデオで見るたびに呆れて物も言えない。余談だがロスだったらヒスパニックのギャングにも注意。ガンポイントでの強盗を数人の被害者から聴いている。
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UC Berkeley History Professor’s Open Letter Against BLM, Police Brutality And Cultural Orthodoxy
BY CLOVERCHRONICLE ON JUNE 11, 2020
The following letter was allegedly written by a UC Berkeley history professor and shared among his or her colleagues anonymously (source / archive link):
Dear profs X, Y, Z
I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field.
In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them.
In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.
Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or ‘Uncle Toms’. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.
The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse.
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