Intellectualizing whiteness as a response to campus racism: some concerns
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper is rooted in the reactions of our university community to a racist poster that appeared on our campus. It presents a critique of tendencies to intellectualize whiteness in depoliticized forms as a response to acts of racism, tendencies that work to centre “good whiteness” in unconscious ways, obstructing opportunities for a more robust and determined politics of anti-racism. We structure the paper around three concerns: the first, a conceptual concern, contests the notion that an ethically admirable or desirable response to racism can ever be sought through an appeal to intellectualization aimed at passively healing the intellectualizer; the second, a speculative concern, considers how particular modes of intellectualizing whiteness can seduce people into thinking they have taken a stand against racism where no such stand exists; the third, a practical concern, considers what a more worthwhile response to acts of racism might entail given the criticisms we identify.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it