Democrats have a centuries’ long history of treating race wrongly, yet they have mastered the art of slandering Republicans as racist. Journalist Daniel Greenfield explores some of this bizarre reality.

Next year a racist country will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Segregation has made a comeback at colleges with racially separate dorms and graduation ceremonies. Corporate employees are expected to join the affinity groups of their race and employers and activists closely scrutinize the race, gender and sexuality of officials, executives and creatives.

Call it wokeness, equity or anti-racism, they all amount to a country that has within a short span of time talked itself into constructing the most racist system since segregation. The sixties were trending away from racism while the twenties are rushing headlong into it. Boomers prided themselves on their tolerance while Zoomers make intolerance into their identity.

… Americans have been carefully taught to hate by the highest institutions of learning. No Southern educational institution at the height of slavery could have ever conceived of systemically dedicating entire departments and fields of study to asserting why an entire race must be hated.

A range of academia from ‘Whiteness Studies’ to ‘Critical Race Theory’ does just that.

Greenfield notes that “popular culture is even worse,” as he points to Hollywood movies and the like that “actively [seek] to inculcate racial hatred.”

In a little over a decade America has become a racist country by becoming convinced that inverting racism would do away with it. The old virtues of tolerance, color-blindness and equality have been dismissed as racist, but the new anti-racism that reduces everyone to their race, that makes all of our lives revolve around race, has made racism ubiquitous by renaming it.

Americans have become incredibly racist while remaining convinced that they are anti-racist. Anti-racism has taught a generation that the less racist they are, the more unconsciously racist they must be, and that the more publicly racist they are, the less secretly racist they become.

This upside down reality utterly undermines the work of civil rights figures like Martin Luther King Jr., showing that more radical ones like Malcolm X ultimately won the day. “Anti-racism,” Greenfield argues, “has taken a 360 degree turn from racism and imagines it’s headed somewhere new.” He works his way through the debate between equity and equality, as well as “diversity, equity, and inclusion” efforts pervading culture. They’re all manifestations of Marxist critical race theory. He concludes:

Hating people to end hate works as well as any other way to save the world by destroying it.

Anti-racism creates monsters by pursuing them because it is a mirror image of everything it opposes. Black nationalists were motivated by racism. Leftists were convinced that only a complete overthrow of society could make the world into a just place. Anti-racism is the bastard child of racism and revolution. Its unhappy marriage of tribal paranoia and academic theory, otherism and power analysis, has festered into the paranoid racist theories of wokeness.

Liberals revolted against monarchy and other forms of tyranny under the banner of liberty. Leftists argued that the problem wasn’t tyranny, but the wrong sort of tyranny. The right kind of tyranny, a dictatorship of the proletariat, would be the only solution to class inequities. In the Civil Rights movement, liberals offered tolerance as the antidote to bigotry, but leftists argued that the problem wasn’t racism, but the wrong kind of racism. Now, just as the right sort of tyranny was tried in Russia and China, the right sort of racism is being tried in America.

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