What is whiteness? | Myriam François
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2021
- Myriam François deconstructs her experience with whiteness.
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After a year of talking about race on her popular podcast We Need to Talk about Whiteness, academic and broadcaster Myriam Francois discusses the most important things she has learned along the way.
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Myriam François is an Anglo-French writer and broadcaster. Myriam converted to Islam at the age of 21, convinced that the Qur'an represented "the culmination of all of [her] philosophical cogitation." She has written extensively on the place of Islam in the modern world and on European politics
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With or without a hijab I used to think you spoke so eloquently, intelligent and well thought! You are an inspiration!
Nobody every needs to be ashamed of their colour.
A life spent walking on eggshells must be utterly exhausting. No thanks.
It's nearly always upper class white people who talk about white privilege etc.
It's not. It's only when upper class white people talk about white privilege, are they heard and presented. Others might have said the same things many many times over but never given the due credit or even the audience.
That doesn’t mean it’s no there & real.
This should be fun…
It was!
nobody even used the term whiteness until now
She's a millenial Brit who has been indoctrinated.
Professor Nell Irvin painter if memory serves me correct did a interview/podcast about 11 years ago
Brilliant thnks for sharing
brave woman, I saw interview regarding Gaza.
we follow you, never give up
I saw it and I wasn't impressed.
I wasn't impressed either :/
What does she mean when she says "race is a construct"? Surely race is biologicaly definit.
She's a pretzel.
I would say rather that skincolor (and other factors of anthropological differences, like DNA or height of Siberian ppl, or the form of asian eyes or the width of african nose etc... its evolutionary), it is biologicaly definit, but racism as a political idea was a political contruct in 19th and 20th century (it started in UK) when UK and other empires used it for their goals of expoitation of tribal and native cultures. But now the existence of racism is used by those who want to divide us and to control us (AFAIR mostly in USA though).
@@TallisKeeton true
@@ishrendon6435 thx :) Its only my personal view of this matter and its a view from the situation of central Europen countries, where after II WW we were mostly integrated, one-language, native nationalities with non-white minorities amounts near to zero. Though I know that there were few African students in 70s and 80s and 90s in our countries too, becouse the CCCP box and its allies got some students exchanges for those of African countries which were for a time dominated by socialism or were allies of CCCP box. :) But even if these were couple of hundreds of African students (or for example Vietnamese students) it was truly nothing to be influencing general population of - mostly Slavic - nationalities of countries dominated by CCCP or of countries made to be its allies. So my main question is still standing WHERE, or WHEN we would have been learned HOW to be racists, if our MAIN traumatic national and cultural experience in 20th century was to fight against racial ideology (hitlerism) and our nations were upo to the end of 90s mostly very, very integrated and of one color and of one language, and most of central European countries and nations NEVER got any colonies with non-white population, but rather be colonised or exploited by different European empires (Russia, Prussia, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Turkey).
Just a Minute show all time world championships.
Tolkien level world building.
Signal received, virtue noted.
A GAMER MOMENT LETS GO
Post colonialism is my vibe
😂 she nearly had me 😂😂
Well done
One of the problems, as I see it, is that in the social sciences, social scientists want to sound scientific. The uncertainty in social science and the complexity of humans and other life forms, makes being scientific compared with say physics or chemistry very difficult. So, enter the jargon and complicated terms such as "construct." Whiteness is an intellectual construct, but the explanation of racism and whiteness could be explained in more simple terms than using "construct." Racism and whiteness is fear and perhaps some natural (in the left brain hemisphere) aversion for those who are different. And there are those who are not afraid of taking advantage of others, given the power to do so. In other words, there are some, who have the power, who are AH. That's my 2cents worth.
You speak of science and then use the false left brain right brain dichotomy.
The problem with social sciences is that its not science, no rigor, no objectivity, refusal to create high standards to what is to be considered knowlege.
Its not science, and accepting that is the first step to better contexctualize what it is.
@@ianduarte1992 If you think there's not high standards, try writing an academic paper and see if it gets accepted.
@@BrainInJar a mate of mine submited an article that was written by a site called "post modern generator" and was aproved, it was a riot.
So i can easily say: social sciences have very low standards.
@@BrainInJaryou may wanna look up Peter Boghossian, who almost literally got “Mein Kamph” published as a social justice paper along with several other alike.
Great video! It's unfortunate that many people are still too fragile to dive into messy and complex issues like social privilege and systematic racism. Hope to hear more voices like her, bringing awareness and discussion to important topics!
White Guilt is White Fragility 🥴
It's impossible that anyone could reject my assertions because they are wrong. They must be avoiding discomfort.
Perhaps she can espouse the White privilege of poor Whites in the southern states and how their lavish lifestyle is a result of all the dividends and benefits from their "White Privilege".
CRT is dangerous.
Why?
What a very confused woman
In what way?
@Fractal Chaos Are you 13 years old or just craving attention, sweetheart?
@@markofsaltburn Because despite long-winded sentences stringing together most of the big buzzwords, she was not capable of stringing together any coherent point.
@@trentnida3420she didn't explain what whiteness is, so yes it was pretty pointless. She gave an account of how she was treated as a Muslim and a few other vague anecdotes.
@@markofsaltburn She panders to the lowest for of flattery.
I AM BROWN SKIN YES I DEAL RACISM BUT MY GIRL IS WHITE SHE LOOKS LIKE MIRYAM FRANCISO BEAUTIFUL ❤❤❤ TREATED HER WELL ❤❤❤I DONT HATE ALL WHITE PEOPLE JUST WANT FAIRNESS 😮😮😮😮😮
Can anyone give me an example of structural racism in 2021 U.S. society?
Affirmative action.
Look up the origin of the term or phrase white power and how far back in time it was first used, you might find some surprises!
When was it
just repeating thoughts. Nothing original. Why do they always sound the same? Is it a lack of ability to form own ideas? So sad! And many projections.
I think she is just trying to prove her assumptions.
Salam sister Myriam😍🤗💕
You are soooo angel god bless you
If you only have a hammer, all you see are nails.
I do know one thing for sure, racism will never go away as long as we keep taking about it!!
Thats nonsense and everybody with an average IQ understands why.
That’s how my grandmother’s cancer was cured. We all stopped talking about it.
@@trentnida3420 who said you have to respond to me?
Yeah lets not talk about the lynchings over lunch.
" the Qur'an represented "the culmination of all of [her] philosophical cogitation." That will go down well with the Taliban :)
And what is whiteness? I didnt here the answer.
You're right. She didn't say anything
You didn't watch the video or listen to the video now, did you?
Being a Marxist Muslim is a contradictory position.
Embrace the contradictions of life
Gibberish
What's a white people?
"Do you even like yourself"... my sister said that to me once, she's a clown too.
It is nothing - just another newspeak word to label, shame and censor the critics :)
Off white....welcome to the club lol
Myrium Francois seems to conflate religious persecution with racism. As she felt a difference in treatment, when she dressed in religious garb. Her skin colour was a constant. Therefore she did not experience racism (in that instance).
What low resolution thinking/arguement.
Exactly, it is quite simple
She narrow down her muslim experience.. by claiming it was just racism.. btw she still likes her french heritage cultural identity..which is rooted in Whiteness.. so she's kindda hypocrite...
I agree. I saw her interview on Sky News speaking on behalf of the Palestinians in Gaza. I praise her for that, but not this terrible video she uploaded.
When a woman wears a hijab she will be racialised as non-white. My wife - a pale white hijab wearer - is frequently told her skin is dark and asked where she came from, her parents came from etc - not accepting that she is ethnically white. The examples that Myriam shares are obvious examples that show she is treated in a different way than white people - the fact that this different treatment overlaps with how ethnic minorities are treated can be ignored - by butthurt idiots. People can also pretend that Islam is considered an ethnically white religion - if they are in the mood to embarrass themselves with more idiot lies! I reckon you are the prime candidate E?
She is a functional psychotic.
what... did she say something? Oh she did, in what language was that? English you say, I guess I don't speak english then. What is the difference between whiteness add racism again?
Sorry for the delay of cognitive ability. We are just waiting for a virtue signal to clear and then we shall be calling at the next pile of mind numbing jibberish
Incoherent rambling.
Before you rejected Christianty and converted to Islam , you should have read the book,
White Gold by Giles Milton. It's not too late for you to be saved from going to hell.
Regardless of whether she's a christian or muslim, she has nothing of any actual interest to say.