2/25/2023 0 Comments Struggle session in america![]() They will now redouble their efforts to treat a researcher’s race and sex as scientific qualifications in the awarding of federal research grants. The diversity obsessives in the federal science bureaucracies waited out Donald Trump’s presidency. Racial quotas will become even more the order of the day than now. How this agenda will play out has already been adumbrated in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s initial priority list for COVID vaccinations: Hold off on vaccinating the elderly, despite their higher risk levels, because the elderly are disproportionately white. The “systemic racism” conceit means that every American institution is illegitimate and needs to be reconstructed.īiden’s Cabinet nominees, whether in health, finance, environmental policy or education, have declared that eradicating systemic racism is their top priority. In fact, such terms are so overused today that it is easy to tune them out. They are au courant, shallow terms of the moment, lacking depth or weight. Reflexive invocations of “systemic racism” and “white supremacy” have become the Tourette’s syndrome of left-wing professors and activists. This characterization of America’s worsening racism isn’t just factually ungrounded, it is also a tasteless rhetorical move in an inaugural address. But to Biden’s speechwriters, steeped in academic victimology, racial inequity is always with us, requiring constant remediation from government. One might have thought that more than 50 years of civil-rights legislation the banishing of Jim Crow segregation the ubiquity of racial preferences throughout corporate America, higher education and government trillions of tax dollars attempting to close the academic achievement gap and the election of black politicians by white voting districts would have reduced inequity, not increased it. That qualifier is inherent in the language he chose to adopt. “Growing inequity” is among the greatest challenges facing the country, according to Biden, along with the “sting of systemic racism” and encroaching “white supremacy.” Only now are we confronting “a cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making.”īiden rattled off a litany of white America’s sins: the “harsh, ugly reality” of “racism, nativism, fear demonization” “anger, resentment, hatred extremism.” He didn’t name white Americans as such, but he didn’t need to. And just as predictably, his invocations of the divisive bromides of the identitarian left are being swept under the rug.Īccording to Biden, we are a “great nation” and a “good people.” But we also oppress minorities with an ever-rising fervor. The new president’s inaugural speech is predictably being hailed for its “unifying” message. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists, racists and nativists. ![]()
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