Patel: Anti-racism is destructive when given coercive institutional power
Eboo Patel · Why This Social Justice Activist Became an Entrepreneur Instead · Joe Lonsdale · Mar 15, 2023 · at 25:02
Eboo Patel discusses his book 'We Need to Build' and outlines the functional limits and dangers of applying anti-racist frameworks as overarching governance regimes.
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“Anti-racism is a useful critique of the world. It is dangerous as a paradigm, right? Because it just doesn't explain the, it doesn't explain enough of the world. And that's what a paradigm is supposed to do. And it's really terrible as a regime. It's really terrible when it has coercive power, when it has punitive power.”
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