Thread by @bungarsargon

It's good we're talking about gross elite schools being gutted by wokeness. But what's happening downstream is also important - children everywhere being taught they're racists, they're stewards of white supremacy, taught to see race as the first thing they notice about a person.

https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1371618494610087936

This happened with Robin DiAngelo, too: There was a moment when the dam broke and people started to realize how gross White Fragility is, and everyone called it out, as though Robin DiAngelo were the problem and not the million people who bought her book and "Anti-Racist Baby"

I get it! Gross elite prep schools torn apart by gross racial essentialism - you have to be pretty invested in the elites not to chuckle. But because success in America today is so limited to the top, these kids will make up most of tomorrow's leaders, which makes it less funny.

*Of course* elite prep schools love wokeness. It's the perfect cover story for people who don't want to share power or wealth or the American Dream. Kids, don't worry that no one poorer than you can have a decent life! Ignore your wild economic privilege! Just focus on race!

Thinking about this all against the backdrop of the disgusting dereliction of duty that the lockdowns allowed cities to perpetrate against poor children, denying them an education, safety, skills, even FOOD for the poorest - it really boils the blood. But of course it's related.

We live in a society where the top 20% has all the cultural and political power, 50% of the wealth and zero investment in the public institutions, spaces and communities they rule over. Zero sense of obligation. Zero common cause - zero in common at all - with the rest of America

And they found a worldview that explains this not in terms of money and power, which they could actually be forced to share, but in terms of race, which is totally beyond their control, and demands nothing but that they "do the work," i.e. buy books and make symbolic sacrifices