Victor Davis Hanson
DEI casts suspicion on all hiring. So, the public asks: Was that fly-around on a recent flight due to a DEI pilot or aircraft controller?
Is the anti-Semitic epidemic at elite campuses due to the exemptions granted DEI “victim” students who under their woke binaries claim they cannot themselves be oppressors when they shout the most sickening eliminationist anti-Semitic slogans?
Is it OK for a black female college president to be exempt for years from the consequences of serial plagiarism? Is Representative Bowman exempt from facing felony charges when he activated a fire alarm in the Capitol or plagiarized his thesis?
The nation is saturated with the verbiage of “white rage,” “white privilege,” and “white supremacy,” and yet such slurs do not actually match the condition of most white Americans. Instead, the virulence only serves to justify a privileged minority’s perch or a rich white person’s need to find traction and resonance with minorities of a similarly privileged caste and to distance himself from the supposedly smelly, gap-toothed Walmart shopper (as we learned from the Strozk-Page FBI corpus of text messages that revealed an elite hatred for the MAGA class).
So, what should a President Trump do?
Seek out minorities and stress their class commonalities with poor and middle-class whites. A wealthy Indian-immigrant tech guru has very little in common with a middle-class Indian-immigrant truck driver, but a lot in common in terms of tastes, politics, and lifestyles with fellow wealthy white Silicon Valley grandees. In contrast, the Indian truck driver in lifestyle and values after a generation resembles his white truck-driving counterpart, and vice versa. Class is a far more stable commonality than race, gender, or sexual orientation.
So, end for good racial set-asides, quotas, and prejudice. Concentrate on inner-city minorities with charter, private, and parochial schooling, tough crime enforcement, and ostracism of race-mongering elitist mayors and district attorneys.
Enforce the civil rights codes and laws on the books and at the federal level begin charging with civil rights violations any who uses race or gender or sexual orientation to prejudice the hiring, retention, or promotion of any other American citizen.
The Left will go ballistic—but adjust given most polls show that majorities and minorities alike do not support government-sanctioned bias.
What should he call the epitaph of woke?
The Second Civil Rights Movement.
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