ANTIRACISM IN THE AGE OF WOKE DECADENCE:

“Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions – Politics, like Rock, Pop, and Camp, has its uses” -Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.  

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Racism for the cause of creating equality of outcomes is the new utopian goal. The hundreds of years of systemic racism and white supremacy – as Nikole Hannah-Jones argues in her reimagining of the founding of America in the 1619 Project makes the very foundation of America a house of cards. To follow her and her radical cohorts to the logical end, the whole thing must be burned down. And that’s what we are seeing in cities from New York to Wisconsin, Colorado, and Oregon. Kendi’s solution is presented in his book, in part:

• Invent or find antiracist policy that can eliminate racial inequity.
• Figure out who or what group has the power to institute antiracist policy.
• Disseminate and educate about the uncovered racist policy and antiracist policy correctives.
• Work with sympathetic antiracist policymakers to institute the antiracist policy.
• Deploy antiracist power to compel or drive from power the unsympathetic racist policymakers in order to institute the antiracist policy.
• Monitor closely to ensure the antiracist policy reduces and eliminates racist inequity.
• When policies fail, do not blame the people. Start over and seek out new and more effective antiracist treatments until they work.
• Monitor closely to prevent new racist policies from being instituted.

Kendi goes a step further in his proposal in Politico, that “to fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution”.

So why should it matter what some academics and fringe activists say about race relations and the evil that lurks in every non-black, American heart? Because they have willing accomplices in the liberal left of American politics. The Radical Chic that Tom Wolfe wrote famously about in the 1970s is now the Woke Decadence of the Twenty-First Century.

Well, that’s because we’re living in the version of the Matrix that Wolfe programmed just before his death in 2018. QED: