I'm Ezra Clan, and this is the Ezra Clancho.

I remember reading Ibramex Kendi's How to Be an Anti-Racist back when it first came out.

So this was, I think August of 2019.

I loved his previous books, stamped from the beginning, which I still think everyone should read,

even if you read, by the way, how to be an anti-racist.

But what's talking about how to be an anti-racist was how intensely consequentialist Kendi's views on racism had become.

His argument there was that it doesn't matter what you intend, it doesn't matter what you feel,

all that matters.

The only thing that matters is outcomes.

If a given policy or action reduced racial inequality, it was an anti-racist action.

If it increased it, it was racist.

If you support policies that reduced racial inequality, you are being anti-racist.

Doesn't matter why you're doing it.

If you don't, you are being racist.

That's it. That's the entire framework.

This built on something else in Kendi's How, which had influenced me a lot,

that we have the causal arrow of racism backwards.

The argument in stamp from the beginning is that racist policies don't follow from racist ideas,

the way we normally think they do.

Racist ideas follow from racist policies.

They are created as rationalizations for racial inequality.

And I want to repeat that because it is so important to understanding his thought.

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