How To Solve The Problem Of Racism
August 12, 2008 / 9:32 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierJeff Goldstein is back at Protein Wisdom and blogging about diversity (it’s called inclusion these days, Jeff, get it right):
The solution thor asks for, it seems to me, is simple in theory — though of course difficult in practice: marginalize the very concept of “race,” because as it has been used in this country and elsewhere, it is and always will be bad science. Holding onto it out of some sort of habit is a brand of “conservatism” being practiced by guilty whites, Marxists, race hustlers, a permanent victim class, and opportunistic politicos looking to take advantage of coalition politics. “Race” is mythology. But it is, as we’ve learned in other contexts, a useful fiction — and one that has been milked by a variety of people with a variety of agendas for far too long.
“Diversity” — inasmuch as it remains committed to the superficial — is simply an extension of bad racial politics, and sadly, it is a clownish idea that has now gotten its big floppy shoe into the doorway of US jurisprudence at the highest level.
The end result can only be a gradual diminution of classical liberalism and the kind of foregrounding of individualism upon which this country was born.
Yes, indeed. Let this be a post-racial world in reality not just in words. Fat chance. Too many people have too much to gain by claiming victim status. And too many others have too much to gain by creating victims.
