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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP is the one who misses the irony, I fear.[/quote]
Great. Maybe you can help by providing us all with your clear explanation of why it’s “abjectly stupid” to be aware of issues of racial injustice. Seems to me that knowledge and awareness is a good thing, but I’m curious how you’ll try to convince us that ignorance is better. Go for it. [/quote]

I take issue with your definition. Anybody who is mildly aware of the world is aware of examples of racial injustice. We don't need to be beaten over the head into submission to understand that racial injustice exists and that it should be addressed as part of the overall evolution of society.

Of course, ignorance is never better, and nobody would ever argue that it is; but you already know that, which is why you posited that particular straw man.

The fact is, it is not the case that the rise of wokeness is due to sensible, cogent arguments that are persuasive to reasonable people. Even if one is willing to go a certain distance with the activists in agreeing that historical injustices may have a meaningful causal relationship to contemporary inequalities, progressive thinking on these topics still seems bizarrely unbalanced.

My issue with wokeness is that those who subscribe to such ideas actually seem to believe that Americans, or whites, or men, are uniquely and irredeemable guilty, for reasons written into the whole fabric of our society. The correction is not to go and sin no more, but rather to engage in a perpetual blame game that you can never escape.

Stone Ridge, like its fellow independent schools catering to the wealthy, liberal class has signed on fully and unapologetically to the woke religion and its DEI theology. The problem with this is that there is never an end-point. There is no "solving" this. The entire idea of antiracism is that it is, by definition, unsolvable. An entire group of people are racist and there is nothing that can be done to change that. This is a dangerous and potentially lethal road that these schools follow at their peril.[/quote]

This is a perfect encapsulation of the problem with blindly following the DEI / CRT religion that has so rapidly taken over in this country, in particular among wealthy urban elites. There is no end point other than total self-immolation. I say "religion" because CRT / antiracism prophets do not tolerate evidence or arguing; in fact, use of these scientific tools is inherently white supremacist and racist, by their own definition. They ask that we take it on faith that we are all racist, and that the only way out of our sin is accepting their ideas fully. You are only saved when you admit you are a bigot. Kendi says, indeed, that the best evidence of a racist is someone claiming to not be racist. The foolishness, pseudo-religious, and anti-intellectualism of these ideas are no barriers to their unfettered adoption by otherwise intelligent and well-educated people. I suppose all of those philosophy, logic, and science classes our parents paid for at our elite colleges didn't do us much good. Reason is no match for a guilty conscience and a need to fit in.[/quote]

Ideological battles aside, this will be solved in the free market in the end: whose books sell, whose schools are full with big-bucks paying parents, etc. Everything else is pretty much sound and fury like we see every time fundamental social views shift.[/quote]

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