The author is a young white man imbued with a deep sense of white guilt which as embarassing as that is masks it with faux intellectual snobbery, just like his lefty counterparts.
In other words, he got his indoctrination from the California public school system, corrupted long ago by the globalists and communists.
When Californians are allowed a proper schooling by freedom loving Americans, the State may have a chance to turn itself around.