Those habituated to the standards and practices of the old dispensation in which assertions required evidence find this kind of ritualized faith-based statement puzzling.
It's the new normal.
"Implicit racism and sexism has been constant" is a statement will never not be true because the definition of those terms can always be expanded to ensure that it is always already the case
The modifier "implicit" is itself, of course, a marker of that very process having moved to a very advanced stage
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"I have a right to believe whatever I like without interference"
"Since my own belief necessarily entails others sharing in it, I have a right to compel others to share in it"
When radical subjectivism acquires the force of government compulsion
We have reached a key inflection point in the elaboration and extension of rights discourse, in which new imperial conceptions of rights cannibalize the ones out of which they grew. I call this process "ideological succession"
A McAuliffe victory would be crushing to the movements opposing CRT and gender ideology in schools
A Youngkin victory would have minimal impact on the advance of CRT and gender ideology in schools
Like Dems might they have to tamp down salience of the issue, but the underlying process is not controlled by electoral politics— it’s what the schools of education are doing and are configured to keep doing
Dem party operatives and aligned media will have to tamp down failed gaslighting campaign, which will make the media marginally less unpleasant
Chappelle referred to himself as being a rich man living amidst the "tiki torch whites" in rural Ohio. Perhaps that's true of the surrounding environs, but Yellow Springs, where his father was Dean of Students at Antioch College, began as a utopian progressive community...
Leave aside the divisiveness, it’s just objectively wrong and so bad as cultural observation and analysis
Diff’rent Strokes and Webster were something else — but from a prior decade, and a decade that would go on to make the no. 1 show in America and the normative image of the American family out of the non-whitewashed but very upper middle class Huxtable family…