Irony

It’s rather ironic that to make amends for historical racism, the left wants to employ racism as the truncheon. With total disregard for the fact that the vast majority of Americans are relatively recent immigrants themselves with no ancestral ties to slavery. Like climate change casts a wider net than global warming. So it is with racism, where systemic racism entraps all white people as beneficiaries of their whiteness, labeling us all as white supremacists. Equality has been replaced with equity, where it is no longer enough to have equal opportunity; rather, the thought to be oppressed must be guaranteed equal outcome, regardless of merit. As with all standards, a progressive dumbing down of qualifications in the interest of what amounts to satisfying a racial quota will never succeed in fostering competence and excellence.