I searched for it here under the various headlines it appears under in various outlets, to no avail. So if you have an earlier citation, please let me know - as if I had to ask :)
ANYway, thought it was a thoughtful, well-written piece.
Social-justice pedagogy is driven by one overwhelming reality: the seemingly intractable achievement gap between whites and Asians on the one hand, and blacks and Hispanics on the other. Radical feminism, as well as gay and now trans advocacy, are also deeply intertwined with social-justice thinking on campus and off, as we have just seen. But race is the main impetus. Liberal whites are terrified that the achievement and behavior gaps will never close. So they have crafted a totalizing narrative about the racism that allegedly holds back black achievement.
That is indeed the core issue.
Heather Mac Donald is one of my favorite commentators. This series on policing, race, and the Ferguson Effect is must-read material:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3770841/posts?page=7#7
There’s an argument to be made that Boeing’s issues with the 737 Max coincide with diversity becoming more important as a corporate goal than meritocracy and excellence in aerospace engineering. It’s not going to end well.
Divorces, abortions, Godlessness, immorality, drug abuse, homosexuality and it’s diseases, wanton fornication, illegitimacy, suicides, sexual confusion, doomedness, depression, fatherlessness, ignorance...those are some results.
“It is somewhat too convenient to demonstrate one’s courage in taking a stand where the audience and possible opponents are condemned to silence.” — That’s teachers, professors, HR people, cops and actors on awards nights.
The social justice warriors are creating an American, or even worldwide, Dark Age of Dystopia ...
> Anti-racism has become the national religion, with the search for instances of racism to back up that religion becoming ever more desperate.
The market among our Leftists for true racist events is much bigger than the supply, thus the number of fake hate crime incidents we see, most famously exemplified in 2019 by the Jussie Smollett incident in Chicago. If you haven’t seen Dave Chapelle’s sendup of that, you’ve missed some really funny stuff with biting commentary on this insanity.
Dave Chappelle on the Jussie Smollett Incident
https://youtu.be/wZXoErL2124
Here’s a large list of over 600 fake hate crime incidents:
https://old.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/e4tv7s/fake_hate_crimes_official/
Finally, as we’ve seen with the large number of anti-Jewish hate crime incidents this Hanukkah season in NY and NJ, culminating with the horrific machete attack at an event at a rabbi’s house, the perps haven’t been whites our Leftists like to demonize, but blacks! Yet somehow there’s no racism involved in that, at least according to Leftist SJW dogma.
It’s complete insanity, we can’t put up with it or it won’t end well.
It needs to be called what it really is, they just sugar coat their own labeling and we facilitate the deception by accepting these false labels. At the root it is slow communist infiltration.
bfl
from the article: what Weber called “inconvenient” facts
I would add “inconvenient lack of facts”. I hear libs accusing Trump of all sorts of crimes BUT they always have a “inconvenient lack of facts”. They never support their claims.
What a depressing article!
I've made a similar argument every time I see phrases along the lines of "consensus of scientists" when used in conjunction of pushing public policy such "anthropogenic global warming" (now marketed as climate change).
We are in the midst of a slow motion version of the French Revolution.
Thank God for Heather and her courage to speak truth to the social justice mob as well as to give encouragement to those of us that still have the will to resist it.
It’s so sad that only a few FReepers have tried to read and comment on this long thoughtful article.
Excellent.