Quillette: The Faith of Systemic Racism

Systematic racism has been conjured into existence because “white supremacy” doesn’t exist anymore and fifty years of systematic antiracism across all American institutions has failed to close racial gaps. It was originally based on Gunnar Myrdal’s theory that White prejudice was the cause of black failure. White prejudice has faded though and that hasn’t changed the reality of black failure.

Quillette:

“We hear constantly about the systemic racism coursing through America. Everything, we’re told, is shot through with hate. It does not matter if no white person ever has actually thought a hateful thought. The structure, or system, these innocents inhabit and profit from was designed by those who hated with abandon; the hate is baked into the edifice and walls and rooftops. It constitutes an architecture of oppression, and the persistence of that architecture amounts to an indictment of its beneficiaries. They’re fools or, more likely, willing participants who go to inordinate lengths to camouflage their complicity—Dean Armitage of Get Out declaring he would have voted for Barack Obama a third time while living on a latter-day plantation. 

Of course, if a system is nefarious, it must be blown up, and the bricks and rubble must be redistributed to the politically favored, and anyone who opposes that—anyone who does not loudly and enthusiastically embrace the new dogma—must be a tool of white subjugation.

This is the not so hermetic logic of most every blue-chip multinational, tech behemoth, university, studio, streaming service, and media conglomerate, which, in the past year, have committed to even bolder and brasher equity targets meant to inoculate those institutions against charges of systemic racism.  …

Alas, most major institutions in America right now are making important decisions about hiring, firing, investment, programming, content, syllabi, and so forth, on the basis of a religious claim—systemic racism permeates the whole of our existence—that is necessarily unverifiable. They are being illogical when we expect them to be logical.  …”

After being defeated by reality itself, what do these people do?

Do they admit there are no longer any individual racists oppressing blacks?

Do they admit that they were wrong about White prejudice being the cause of black failure?

Do they admit that our system actually discriminates against all other races in favor of blacks?