Minding the Campus—The Motives Fallacy and 1619
Minding the Campus—The Motives Fallacy and 1619

The Motives Fallacy and 1619 — Minding The Campus

Minding the Campus's About Us:
Minding the Campus hopes to change that by fostering a new climate of opinion that favors civil and honest engagement of all ideas, offering an engaged debate for readers concerned with the state of the modern university and the society it serves.
They are, in short, a more conservative take on education issues and policy.
Quote from the article:
When race becomes an issue in a public forum in the United States, we almost always embrace the motives fallacy. It’s an embarrassing display of national ignorance. Other cultures have variations of this, but it’s our peculiar mania to accuse others of racism in order to end debates. We no longer need to think about the reasonableness of an idea or policy because somebody affiliated with it has been deemed guilty of the most egregious sin we can imagine. Someone is morally flawed beyond repair by way of the accusation alone. At best, we’re now arguing about the charge of racism, and the accuser has won the original debate by default. In that still puritanical corner of our national consciousness, if someone is morally flawed, it means their idea or policy is wrong, no matter how universally beneficial it might be, and no matter how many people it helps, no matter how antiracist it is.
But if an idea—in this case, the governing structure known as the United States of America—is a good one, then why should the nature of its origins matter?