Can someone please explain to me how this editorial is racist or white supremacist? I don’t get that from the article. In fact the authors write: “Was everything perfect during the period of bourgeois cultural hegemony? Of course not. There was racial discrimination, limited sex roles, and pockets of anti-Semitism.”
Additionally I do not think that that fact that there were shotgun marriages means that people did not hold the value of getting married before you have children. I do not think the fact that divorce laws were stricter (in a bad way) means that striving to stay married for the sake of children is a dysfunctional value. I do not think that the fact that there were worse educational opportunities for some people negates the idea the getting the the education you need for gainful employment is something we should abandon as a goal. Working hard and avoiding idleness are fantastic goals even if everyone doesn’t attain them. I do not think that prior discrimination is a reason to eschew patriotism, service to others and civility in public.
These are things that should be discussed. Instead we are getting a thread that has disintegrated into “what about isims.”