#265 The Religion of Anti-Racism

There's probably not a single desirable organization in this country now—company, educational institution, nonprofit—where a black applicant, could be a student or could be an employee, would be at a disadvantage. Given equivalent qualifications, a black applicant would be positively advantaged in the top 10% of every organization...

It really is the case that a white boy is going to be severely disadvantaged on the job market just because he is not a pretty color and hiring him is not anti-racist.

Even if it's quite clear that a current problem is due to racism in the past... it doesn't mean that the persistence of that problem—in this case, wealth inequality—is due to racism in the present.

How can we reason with the kind of person who comes from the hyper-woke left and is asking us to do things that don't make any sense and even possibly hurt people? How can we make them open to diversities of opinion? How can we make them see that their ideas aren't the only legitimate ones? ... My claim really is... people cannot be reasoned with on, for example, race when it comes to issues like that.

...America's sense of what it is to be intellectual, moral, or artistic, what it is to educate a child, what it is to foster justice, what it is to express oneself properly, and what it is to be a nation is being re-founded upon a religion.

As far as the whole systemic racism argument, the idea that if you see a disparity, it's due to racism, that you apply the sentence, 'it's racism', is extremely elementary.