1. Third-wave Antiracism is a call to enshrine defeatism, hypersensitivity, oversimplification, and even a degree of performance

2. Rumor mongering was discouraged on the grounds it fomented divisions in America and promoted defeatism and alarmism.

3. Notes on Conceptualisms (2009), the little book that Place coauthored with Robert Fitterman, points to the defeatism in the movement

4. From the Cambridge English Corpus If this sounds like pre-modern defeatism, it also indicates a way forward to the modern sublime in which Astonishment forces a recoil to rational analysis

5. Astonishment The speed with which the requests from famous persons were treated can provoke nothing but Astonishment. From the Cambridge English Corpus If this sounds like pre-modern defeatism, it also indicates a way forward to the modern sublime in which Astonishment …