Buzzfeed Writer: ‘De-platform’ White Parents

A culture writer at Buzzfeed argues that it’s time to “de-platform” white parents.

Alyssa Dominguez, a culture writer, wrote an article arguing that online white parents are the problem. 

Dominguez cited J.K. Rowling’s recent controversy as evidence to her assertion. Rowling has been criticized for her comments regarding the transgender community after several “insensitive” tweets.

“Rowling’s status as a celebrity billionaire affords her extra protection and the benefit of the doubt while also helping to amplify her talking points,” Dominguez wrote. “But it’s specifically because she speaks as a white woman with ‘concerns’ about the safety of women and children that her anti-trans framing is accepted on Twitter and treated by the media at large as worthy of debate.”

Indeed, she argued that “misinformation” against minorities is the biggest part of the problem.

“Never explicitly framed as a misinformation agent who might merit de-platforming, Rowling is a symptom of the current media ecosystem, in which disinformation about minority identities is accepted as legitimate controversy.”

Dominguez added that “anti-black” and “anti-gay right-wing activism” have centered media narratives around white women and white children. Parents concerned about their child’s school curriculum are also part of the problem, she said.

“[T]The timing and frame of these stories about education and race highlight the fact that they weren’t considered newsworthy by community members, Black parents and youth. Instead, they helped reframe debate to center white parental anxieties.”

Dominguez stated that deplatforming parents of color is the solution to an inequal world.

“[P]latforming “both sides” implies we live in an already equal world. We don’t. And that’s a fact”

Christopher Rufo criticizes the article.

Buzzfeed wants “deplatforming white parents” of any decision about education for their children, he stated. tweeted. “They want to use taxpayer money to push gender ideology and critical race theory—with no obstruction.”