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Linguistics professor Mary Bucholtz kicked off her presentation at a recent online conference for academics by condemning all white Americans as racists and said deniers must acknowledge their guilt and "do better."
"As a white American, I am by definition racist," Bucholtz, who chairs the linguistics department at the University of California Santa Barbara, said at a
Sept. 11 webinar hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise," she added, with a chuckle.
As a guest speaker at the lecture, Bucholtz's topic was billed as "The white-supremacist and colonial underpinnings of linguistics," but her talk centered more on the allegedly inherent racism of white people.
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