York University Professor of Color Explains Brownness and the Dangers of Whiteness (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_563)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

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🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Enjoy as I read the abstract and conclusion of this professor's recent paper titled "In/Visible POC: Narratives of a Brown Professor in Teacher Education": https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15327086211051787 Tweet in question: https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1663011440607784960?s=20 _______________________________________ My forthcoming book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life is now available for pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/Saad-Truth-about-Happiness-Secrets/dp/1684512603 To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (May 29, 2023) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1572: https://youtu.be/_hI_cnLEKPI _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi this is Scott Sad. As often happens I was not planning on doing a sad truth
0:06.0	today it's gorgeous outside I wanted to relax a bit but I wanted to share with
0:11.0	you something that transpired last night and then continued this
0:16.0	morning. I was going through my Twitter feed and I saw a tweet from a professor of education.
0:26.8	She's a specialist in decolonizing pedagogy
0:31.2	at York University.
0:33.0	And so here's her tweet.
0:35.0	Her name is Vidia Shaw.
0:38.0	I often get asked how to disrupt whiteness in leadership. My simple answer is to tell the truth and speak your truth.
0:48.0	Whiteness institutionalizes lies, denials, and cover-ups and calls it quote protocol,
0:57.0	professionalism, and conflict management. No, it's dishonesty.
1:02.0	And so I went after her, I predict No, it's dishonesty.
1:02.7	And so I went after her, I predicted that she would block me and she did, and that she
1:07.6	would either shut down her account or protect her tweets and she did, which of course begs the question why would you
1:16.6	if you're so sure about your positions if you are on the right side of the matter if truth is on your side, then you never have to hide because you stand tall and proudly
1:30.3	in defense of your principles. Someone like me should be able to do away with very easily
1:37.1	with your counter arguments.
1:38.3	I won't read to you all of the stuff that I wrote in terms of tweets to her.
1:42.8	But I did some digging on this person.
1:46.1	And earlier today I shared a clip.
1:47.8	So this is an article that she wrote.
1:49.4	Now, this is a professor, right?
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