A succinct statement of what I call “the Successor Ideology”, which is the coalescence of every strand of academic radicalism into a single synoptic account of the oppression inherent in what Kelley calls “liberal multiculturalism.” 
His identification of slavery with colonization makes sense; his invocation of all forms of gender normativity feels perfunctory and tacked on; but it is this insistence on the unity of all oppression that is the distinctive move
How would we pursue his vision of the world throughthe framework of American constitutional government and corporate capitalism?
To pose this question is to conjure up the activities of the activist class since 2011....
To pose this question is to conjure up the activities of the activist class since 2011....
In some ways this is just what 50 years of academics outflanking each other in an intramural language game to be more radical inexorably yields...nobody thought it would influence urban policy or the medical profession....
Nor did they think it would be made compulsory by the state in K-12 schools. But here we are.
Thinkers like Kelley weave the various critiques into the unity of all oppression tapestry; activists work on promulgating the language and imposing consequence on those who don’t defer to it
No one has been canceled for fatphobia or anthropocentrism or speciesism — yet
OK, it's not succinct. But this part is:
This children's book author shares the same ideological grounding and premises as Kelley. Her widely acclaimed book is being taught to 5 year olds.
https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1401211594076397572?s=20
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