Critical race theory and antiracism share with Marxism-Leninism (and Juche, its North Korean offshoot) an arcane vocabulary and impenetrable set of ideas that serve less as a tool of political change than as a social sorting mechanism that keeps the governing class as separate as possible from ordinary people. In America after the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter revolution that followed, the elite started to force ordinary people and employees to take part in “diversity training” in order to internalize the official ideology of wokeism as a condition of education and
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Corporate diversity training is now akin to STRUGGLE SESSIONS where intellectuals were BEATEN TO DEATH by adolescents in front of their entire community! Does this person even strive to be taken seriously?? To allude to this comparison is to assume both that people have some passing familiarity enough to be horrified by the juxtaposition, but not enough to realize how UTTERLY WRONG it is.
The 'impenetrable set of ideals' espoused by antiracism, to this reader's eye are: it's not enough to merely be "not" racist, in order to effect systemic change big enough to meaningfully undo literal centuries of oppression and injustice requires actively working in the opposite direction. Thus, *anti*racist, implying both direction and energized movement, rather than merely passive nonparticipation. ... and that idea is "impenetrable" to a Columbia graduate-? Let alone one who wrote that thing about truth in reporting being an "unaffordable luxury"-? Unhinged, truly.
