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Saturday, December 16, 2023 9:33 PM

Glenn Loury: Black DEI Director Fired for 'Whitesplaining'

https://glennloury.substack.com/p/black-dei-director-fired-for-whitesp
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The idea that black people are always late to appointments and unable to keep to a schedule is one of those racist myths that should have died a natural death a long time ago. And yet it’s still with us. Only now, the purveyors of this stereotype are not, in the main, white bigots. Rather, they’re self-styled social justice warriors who believe that when anybody—even an African American—expects a black person to conform to the most basic social norms, they’re revealing a deeply held racial bias. Being on time, they would have you believe, is a white thing, and to insist that black people conform to this white norm is to insist on the superiority of the white race.

It is a little crazy that I have to say this, but, no, being on time is not a “white thing.” Black people are fully capable of reading a clock. And no, when a white person shows up to a 10:00 a.m. meeting expecting to see his black colleagues, he is not trafficking in white supremacy. There is something deeply, deeply backward about the idea that black people cannot be expected to meet these social obligations. There is—I’ll say it— something deeply racist about it. And I suspect that if you told the average black person he shouldn’t worry about being on time, because that’s not something black people do, things would get uncomfortable quickly.

My guest this week, Tabia Lee, the former DEI director at De Anza Community College, ran afoul of this kind of progressive bigotry when she made the utterly ordinary suggestion to her colleagues that it might be helpful to set an agenda for the semester. For that infraction, she was accused of “whitespeaking, whitesplaining, and supporting white supremacy.” The fact that Tabia is African American herself seemed not to matter. It was only the first of a series of absurd run-ins with progressive racial ideology, which Tabia details here, that eventually led to her dismissal from her position. It’s unfortunate that someone as qualified as Tabia has been effectively ejected from academia for espousing what many people would consider common sense. But maybe Tabia’s former colleagues would consider common sense a “white thing,” too.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024 7:37 PM

You can't be everything to everyone. I've said it a hundred times in here before.

https://josephklein.substack.com/p/its-not-just-biden

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It's Not Just Biden
The Democrats are Senescent, too.

By Joe Klein

On Monday, January 15, the day that Donald Trump trampled the opposition in Iowa, Joe Biden gave an interview to Reverend Al Sharpton. Curious, that. Biden doles out interviews about as often as squirrels give away acorns. Sharpton, though more acceptable than he once was—especially on issues like crime—is still regarded as a dangerous, militant figure by most Americans. So why, I asked a prominent democrat, did the President sit with the Rev on Iowa Day? “Because no one was watching,” this person said, “and you have to tend to the base.”

This is the essential condition of American political life in 2024:

Trump exhilarates his Republican base. Biden exasperates his Democrats.

Why?

Because the Republican base is about ideology and the Democratic base is about identity. The Republicans are coherent, even if the ideology is a repulsive right-wing populism. The Democrats are an amalgam of identity groups, with varying agendas and beliefs. You can aim a message at black activists—on say, reparations, as the ever-foolish Jamaal Bowman did this week—and a fair number of Latinos will be turned off. You can try to stroke Latino activists on immigration, and a fair number of blacks—to say nothing of middle-class Latinos (and the rest of us, for that matter)—will wonder why on earth you can’t act to shut down the southern border. You can piss off women if you don’t have the suitable quota of Ms.’s in your administration…and that number is never quite enough. You can piss off gay activists if you question, even just a little, the current, faddish obsession with gender fluidity. About the only thing Democrats have in common is abortion and even there, the activists are so extreme that rational discussion is impossible. Democrats can not say when a late-term abortion is too late. That is disgraceful.

The Democrats’ ethnicity problems have multiplied in recent years as the identity groups have become more complicated. There is a black middle and professional class now; it holds different views from academic blackdom and from the black underclass. It was middle- and working-class blacks, angry about crime, who elected Eric Adams over the lawyerly MSNBC darling Maya Wiley for mayor of New York. (Adams turns out to be a rather sketchy character, but that’s another story.) Latinos are profoundly different from blacks: they’re not interested in government jobs. As Michael Barone once noted, blacks and the 19th century Irish are similar in that way. Latinos—like the Italian immigrants 100 years ago—figure most of the government jobs have been taken. They want to start businesses; they work construction jobs; they’re religiously conservative; they favor legal immigration, but not the mayhem we’re seeing on television. (Oh, and to complete the Barone trifecta, Asians are assimilating the same way Jews did, through an insane fixation on meritocracy.)

This has been a disaster for Democrats. They made a terrible mistake emphasizing identity over community fifty years ago. It was one of the great flubs in American political history. And now the coalition is fraying, for the very best of reasons. The “protected” groups are assimilating into the American mainstream (often to the dismay of the activists like Ibram X. Kendi, who would be forced to look for honest work absent his imagined apocalypse of grievance). There are multiple black and Latino agendas now; the most important have nothing to do with identity—but with education, crime and inflation. Women and gay people have achieved acceptance and functional equality, historically, in the blink of an eye. Women have, arguably, achieved superiority. Just look at college graduation rates. There was a simple answer that Nikki Haley could have offered when asked if America was a racist country. She could have said: “Well, it sure used to be, by law—but

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