Modern "antiracism" (= CRT = Wokeness) is the opposite of Civil Rights. Dividing people by "color" is as absurd as trying to do surgery with a chainsaw. It also ignores the progress shown by Wilfred Reilly's chart re inter-racial marriage. I abhor any movement that judges people based on immutable traits.
I propose this as a metaphor for a large country whose institutions are being hollowed out.
Martin Luther King:
As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask — and rightly so — what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.
"Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence," given at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967.
As reported by Renu Mukherjee at City Journal, "Inconvenient Discrimination: The American Psychological Association once acknowledged bias against Asian Americans in college admissions; today, it would rather not."
In 2012, the American Psychological Association (APA) published an online essay about discrimination against Asian Americans in college admissions. Penned by a psychology graduate student named Yi-Chen (Jenny) Wu, the essay argued that such discrimination might make American teenagers of Asian origin hesitant to identify as such and thereby negatively affect their racial and ethnic identity development and mental health. At the time, the APA described the subject of Wu’s essay as a “relevant psychosocial and psychological health and well-being topic.”
A decade later, the organization no longer believes this.
I assume lawsuits are forthcoming to dismantle what Rufo has uncovered at University of Florida. This is a long thread documenting the shocking amounts of premeditated divisiveness purchased by the University a the cost of $5 million/year. That money could have hired a lot of professors and lowered tuition for a lot of students. That these programs might be "well intended" is no defense. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
