Focusing too much on Harvard and *school policy is a misdirection IMO. The real issue is a careful re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement. Not whether African Americans deserve equal treatment under the law, but whether the political apparatus and bureaucracies born from the 1960's needs to be totally ripped apart and the tenets of social progress reimagined.
Cancel culture is a simple formula: strong bureaucracy + low legitimacy. Snowflake culture is what happens when you take the noble cause of black civil rights, continue to bolt on oppressed group after group to it until 40% of the population is "protected" and free speech is impossible. The establishment's term "democracy" is really this parallel legal system for the disaffected.
Skeptics will say: that means possibly returning to a highly race-conscious society. How is that any different from where we're already headed?
90's liberals like Maher are the first to beat their chests on social progress re: race, sex, gender -- yet the first to decry the excesses of woke as a derailment. Woke isn't a derailment but the 90's at maturity, after 3 decades of bureaucratic failure.
Stephen Pinker wrote a piece in the Boston Globe on how to "save" Harvard: establish institutional neutrality, affirm free speech, dismantle DEI. This is so ridiculous because the issue with Harvard is equally about law as it is "school policy".
The US leadership class in 2023 is trapped in a paradox: its legitimacy comes from so-called social advancement/progress, yet these emerging, radicalized movements are a direct response to their mismanagement of these social issues. You can call me names for calling out the Civil Rights Movement all day — sorry, don’t care. I think it benefits everyone to see a healthy Baltimore of Chicago, or for black America to be vibrant. Yet the underlying arrangements require continued misery.
Professor Amy Wax has an anti-black problem. And Glenn Loury is overprotective of her. Amy Wax is a buddy of a prominent white separatist and supremacist, Jared Taylor. Interesting!
Glenn, I'll go one step further: the Obamas and the Jewish community are traveling towards each other @ 150 MPH and destined for a collision.
When we say "DEI" it's both the expanding civil rights bureaucracy from the 1960's, but also Obama's minority coalition in 2012. Obama tried to take a bunch of disaffected minorities with lots of internal contradictions and turn them into a majority -- using the organizing principle of white Republican oppression.
The basis of that anti-white framework was rooted in antisemitism, that's why things turned so quickly from "white supremacy" to "Jews" among the woke.
Here's what I mean: listen carefully to anti-white arguments 1. there's admiration and revulsion (e.g., Smithsonian's chart of "white t*raits": self-reliance, hard work, nuclear family 2. whiteness = god of the gaps that explains every negative social phenomenon for POC 3. since whites are colonizers, they have no homes and therefore no country, etc. etc. These are dyed in the wool anti-Jewish tropes.
DEI doesn't have an antisemitism problem, structurally DEI *is* antisemitism. And there were a lot of very wicked liberal Jews who understood this.
Watch carefully the dynamics of the Obamas and Jewish community moving forward, I think a storm is slowly brewing.
Listened to the show to day with Tabia Lee, it was excellent. I loved the way she presented her perspective. There was no name calling, no anger, eventhough she has every right to be angry, and a principled response to the DEI crowd. This is a cancer and must be defeated by people such as you raising your voices.
DEI has a logic and culture problem. Can you IMAGINE the tsunami of hostility any person would face if they answered legitimate questions on policy with shit like “de-centering blackness”??
All of this nonsense can be chalked up to the media, courts (here’s looking at you, Minneapolis) higher ed, and pretty much the entire progressive wing of the Democrat party (think of the MAGA wing of the Republican Party concerning size and influence within the larger party) manipulating a narrative that plays off of and utilizes victimhood/oppressor critical theory/social justice ideology in order to manipulate public perception. THIS IS A MIND GAME and you’re all playing it.
And I’ll say this again and keep saying it until Glenn and John don’t want my money and membership anymore.
The original autopsy report as well as the bodycam footage from May 25 and 26 2020 was available in 2020 and for the last 3.5 years they’ve both (John and Glenn) have (unwittingly it seems) been referring to that incident as the “murder of George Floyd”.
So yeah, you can bluster about DEI but it’s merely a symptom of a much larger, much deeper problem that can be extrapolated to:
I wrote an anonymous letter to the president of one college where I teach, protesting the forthcoming and further DEI “Anti-Racist” workshop(s). I attended and witnessed the blatant anti-white narcissism of the facilitator. A first generation American-Dominican who “identifies as black,” this anti-intellectual petty person’s grievance was all about redesigning American culture to put herself in power, assuming the white people are and undeserving of this mythical privilege. Quote: “Consider yourselves part of the white group that is detrimental to society.”
"Pro-Hamas rallies" are exactly what these protests should be called. Amazing to me, but then again, not so amazing, that a flawed ideology like DEI, results in assholery on the ground. As Glenn so accurately notes, when you flatten a struggle into ONLY oppressors and oppressed, you will, almost unavoidably, get this outcome.
Focusing too much on Harvard and *school policy is a misdirection IMO. The real issue is a careful re-examination of the Civil Rights Movement. Not whether African Americans deserve equal treatment under the law, but whether the political apparatus and bureaucracies born from the 1960's needs to be totally ripped apart and the tenets of social progress reimagined.
Cancel culture is a simple formula: strong bureaucracy + low legitimacy. Snowflake culture is what happens when you take the noble cause of black civil rights, continue to bolt on oppressed group after group to it until 40% of the population is "protected" and free speech is impossible. The establishment's term "democracy" is really this parallel legal system for the disaffected.
Skeptics will say: that means possibly returning to a highly race-conscious society. How is that any different from where we're already headed?
90's liberals like Maher are the first to beat their chests on social progress re: race, sex, gender -- yet the first to decry the excesses of woke as a derailment. Woke isn't a derailment but the 90's at maturity, after 3 decades of bureaucratic failure.
Stephen Pinker wrote a piece in the Boston Globe on how to "save" Harvard: establish institutional neutrality, affirm free speech, dismantle DEI. This is so ridiculous because the issue with Harvard is equally about law as it is "school policy".
The US leadership class in 2023 is trapped in a paradox: its legitimacy comes from so-called social advancement/progress, yet these emerging, radicalized movements are a direct response to their mismanagement of these social issues. You can call me names for calling out the Civil Rights Movement all day — sorry, don’t care. I think it benefits everyone to see a healthy Baltimore of Chicago, or for black America to be vibrant. Yet the underlying arrangements require continued misery.
This IMO is so much bigger than school policy.
Professor Amy Wax has an anti-black problem. And Glenn Loury is overprotective of her. Amy Wax is a buddy of a prominent white separatist and supremacist, Jared Taylor. Interesting!
Glenn, I'll go one step further: the Obamas and the Jewish community are traveling towards each other @ 150 MPH and destined for a collision.
When we say "DEI" it's both the expanding civil rights bureaucracy from the 1960's, but also Obama's minority coalition in 2012. Obama tried to take a bunch of disaffected minorities with lots of internal contradictions and turn them into a majority -- using the organizing principle of white Republican oppression.
The basis of that anti-white framework was rooted in antisemitism, that's why things turned so quickly from "white supremacy" to "Jews" among the woke.
Here's what I mean: listen carefully to anti-white arguments 1. there's admiration and revulsion (e.g., Smithsonian's chart of "white t*raits": self-reliance, hard work, nuclear family 2. whiteness = god of the gaps that explains every negative social phenomenon for POC 3. since whites are colonizers, they have no homes and therefore no country, etc. etc. These are dyed in the wool anti-Jewish tropes.
DEI doesn't have an antisemitism problem, structurally DEI *is* antisemitism. And there were a lot of very wicked liberal Jews who understood this.
Watch carefully the dynamics of the Obamas and Jewish community moving forward, I think a storm is slowly brewing.
Trump has dinner with antisemites Nick Fuentes and Kanye West
Marjorie Taylor Greene talks of Jewish space lasers.
But, DEI has a problem.
These are not serious discussions.
Listened to the show to day with Tabia Lee, it was excellent. I loved the way she presented her perspective. There was no name calling, no anger, eventhough she has every right to be angry, and a principled response to the DEI crowd. This is a cancer and must be defeated by people such as you raising your voices.
I am having trouble wrapping my head around looking forward to redefining normal as Trump
DEI has a logic and culture problem. Can you IMAGINE the tsunami of hostility any person would face if they answered legitimate questions on policy with shit like “de-centering blackness”??
All of this nonsense can be chalked up to the media, courts (here’s looking at you, Minneapolis) higher ed, and pretty much the entire progressive wing of the Democrat party (think of the MAGA wing of the Republican Party concerning size and influence within the larger party) manipulating a narrative that plays off of and utilizes victimhood/oppressor critical theory/social justice ideology in order to manipulate public perception. THIS IS A MIND GAME and you’re all playing it.
And I’ll say this again and keep saying it until Glenn and John don’t want my money and membership anymore.
The original autopsy report as well as the bodycam footage from May 25 and 26 2020 was available in 2020 and for the last 3.5 years they’ve both (John and Glenn) have (unwittingly it seems) been referring to that incident as the “murder of George Floyd”.
So yeah, you can bluster about DEI but it’s merely a symptom of a much larger, much deeper problem that can be extrapolated to:
THE LEFT HAS A GASLIGHTING PROBLEM.
I think we need to lose the "people of color" trope. Straight up, it means "everybody except white people". That's hateful and racist.
I wrote an anonymous letter to the president of one college where I teach, protesting the forthcoming and further DEI “Anti-Racist” workshop(s). I attended and witnessed the blatant anti-white narcissism of the facilitator. A first generation American-Dominican who “identifies as black,” this anti-intellectual petty person’s grievance was all about redesigning American culture to put herself in power, assuming the white people are and undeserving of this mythical privilege. Quote: “Consider yourselves part of the white group that is detrimental to society.”
Seriously-- why is this allowed and sanctioned?
"Pro-Hamas rallies" are exactly what these protests should be called. Amazing to me, but then again, not so amazing, that a flawed ideology like DEI, results in assholery on the ground. As Glenn so accurately notes, when you flatten a struggle into ONLY oppressors and oppressed, you will, almost unavoidably, get this outcome.