The Unbearable Whiteness of Secular Studies

[AtheistCrusader]

9. The article seems to misidentify a 'dearth' of secular POC in secular studies as

a lack of depth in secular studies.
it's not. Secular studies itself is shallow. There's not much to talk about at all.

I also take issue with this irredeemable nonsense:

When it comes to secularism, even when secular people of color appear in academic spaces, the range of lived experience that they are allowed to represent is limited and reductive. The standard caricature that bubbles up into mainstream consciousness is one of smug atheist blacks and Latinos condemning God and Tyler Perry-esque evangelicalism among folk of color.

That is patently absurd. An example I frequently give (and gave upthread) of Frederick Douglass, absolutely defies this 'caricature'. I don't know what books or courses the author actually experienced, but all I've seen of Mr. Douglass can be described as 'hero worship' in secular circles. It's bordering on the verge of a cult of personality. (Which may not be an entirely good thing) Smug, no. Defiant? Hell to the yes.

But Douglass is an icon and a cornerstone of American History from any viewing angle, and I would not expect too terribly deep a treatment of him in a secular studies course, because as I said earlier, his impact was deep and wide in cultural significance, far beyond his lack of faith in god(s).

Ok. Curious now what you 'know' about my hair then.