Don’t let campus racial nonsense steer you in the wrong direction.
If there is one thing academia has long been known for, particularly in recent years, it is a suffusing and relentless fixation on racial matters. It is hard to overstate the modern academy’s manic obsession with race, specifically with racial issues filtered through the lens of progressive orthodoxy: originally a subject confined mostly to a narrow slice of liberal arts departments, it has spread to virtually every corner of the university. Even the dry, dusty, boring sciences—the disciplines we once thought were immune to the eye-rolling radical politics of American higher education—have become infused with it. It is endemic, and it is uniquely awful.
The motivation behind this exhausting phenomenon is largely one of control: our academical overseers are convinced that we need more-or-less constant supervision and professional direction when it comes to navigating our personal relationships. Go to any college campus in the country and you will see blacks, whites, Asians, Latinos, members of every race and ethnicity interacting, bonding, forming friendships, enjoying each other’s company—in short, treating each other as equals. For probably 99.8 percent of college students, race is simply not a factor when assessing the measure of a person.
Race-obsessed academics cannot tolerate such simple and widespread egalitarianism; it robs them of their sense of professional purpose, for one, and—for a great many diversity officers and bureaucrats, anyway—it might literally entail the loss of a job. And so, for example, you have professors arguing that white people are the perpetuators and beneficiaries of “white priority;” you have professors offering up their own colleagues as sacrifices on the altar of campus racial politics; you have colleges distributing “White Privilege Resource Guides” in order to sow division amongst the studentry; the examples are endless.
Normal people—those who aren’t weirdly and uncomfortably fixated on the color of everyone else’s skin—generally have no problem getting along with members of other races; indeed, any uncomfortable racial issues that arise between friends can almost always be easily resolved with patience and kind words. Academical racialism, on the other hand, wants us to believe that an army of professors, mediators, experts and handlers are all necessary to navigate the allegedly fraught and complex world of inter-racial-relations.
This isn’t true. The vast majority of people from all races are more than capable of figuring these things out for themselves. We would do well to ignore, more or less entirely, the army of paranoid and aggressive hucksters who want to micromanage our relationships—who want to teach us to obsess over everything we say and do—to the point where even interacting with each other is terrifying and unpleasant. We can do better than this; we are doing better than this, and it would serve us well to not listen to the people who tell us otherwise.
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