RSSSeems the ADL is really just on the wrong side.
” In San Francisco and the Bay Area, a region bustling as much with strong communities of color, queers, and people with disabilities as it was with entrenched inequality, they recruited 50 local civil rights groups to create a new non-profit organization, Bay Area United, to help manage the curriculum. A steering committee of LGBT, Asian, Latinx, Arab*, and Indigenous groups enthusiastically tackled the work. But their partnership with the ADL quickly went sour.”
I always wonder how fundamentalist Arabs/Muslims in other countries feel about what is probably women of their persuasion associating themselves and them in absentia, with groups they may feel they don’t care to be associated with especially if it’s their religion. And the sole reason is anti-white. Not just association but outright promotion.
“Worse, the curriculum had been written entirely by white people and their distance showed. Civil rights groups called the ADL’s coverage of Japanese internment “horrifying in its brevity… disrespectful.” They objected to the section on Muslim and Middle Eastern peoples, which features an Iranian child “persecuted for liking America,” because it clearly reaffirmed Islamophobic
stereotypes rather than undoing them. They noted that the ADL’s focus on hate groups ignored white middle class culture as a source of inequality and bias. “Hate violence,” wrote one steering committee member to the ADL, “comes, overwhelmingly, from the ‘mainstream.’”