Since Black Lives Matter violent protests erupted last year, systemic racism has been transformed from a fringe theory to a canonical truth.
Deemed incontestable, systemic racism provides the political rationale for “dismantling”—in the words of no less an authority than the NIH—the institutions and cultural standards that, according to the framework’s advocates, are maintained to uphold white supremacy.
This year, the National Institutes of Health issued an apology to all who have suffered from structural racism in biomedical research. The NIH is dedicating $90 million tax dollars to the study of health disparities and structural racism, engaging in more than 60 diversity and inclusion initiatives, and committing “every tool at our disposal to remediate the chronic problem of structural racism.”
“Deemed incontestable, systemic racism provides the political rationale for “dismantling”—in the words of no less an authority than the NIH—the institutions and cultural standards that, according to the framework’s advocates, are maintained to uphold white supremacy.”
Yet they never tell us what they’re going to replace it with. And no one ever asks them.
Funny, that.
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The Achilles heel of this cultural revolution:
Critical race theory… is entirely a creature of the state. It was born, and nurtured, and raised within publicly financed and publicly subsidized universities and it now survives only in this vast constellation of publicly supported and publicly subsidized bureaucracy;
It also gives us a tremendous opportunity because what the public giveth the public can take away........
We should fight indirectly, in a more sophisticated way, to start slowly chipping away at these bureaucracies and institutional powers.....by curtailing education’s stranglehold on our tax dollars.