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* The competition for the greatest demonstration of “antiracist” wokism
in our society is intense, what with media outlets, Hollywood, tech
monopolies, teachers unions and plenty of others all vying to show
the purest forms of virtue.
* But really, nobody can top the universities. These are the places
where the ideas of “systemic racism” and Critical Race Theory were
hatched, and from which come the demands that all the rest of us get
in line with the official “antiracist” orthodoxy.
* Which is all you need to know to deduce that these institutions must
themselves be the very worst and most overt practitioners of racism.
In a post back in February titled “The Worst Racists Are The
Left-Wing Academics” I quoted one elite university spokesperson after
another falling all over themselves to confess their racism. (E.g.,
Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber, September 2020: “Racism
and the damage it does to people of color nevertheless persist at
Princeton. . . . Racist assumptions from the past also remain
embedded in structures of the University itself.”; the President and
Trustees of Dartmouth, July 2020: “We know there are no easy
solutions to eradicate the oppression and racism Black and other
students, faculty, and staff of color experience on our campus. . .
.”).
* And then there is the NCAA. . . .
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