Batya Ungar-Sargon, in her book Bad News, looks at the new critical race theory. What she finds, she says is:
Anti-racism is a magic trick that transforms economic guilt into racial guilt, absolving the rich of any role in solving inequality because it's rooted in the one thing they have no control over—their race. It was the perfect worldview for white liberals, increasingly college educated and affluent, a diffuse intelligentsia employed in creative, knowledge-based, and managerial jobs, convinced of their own superior virtue and desperate to telegraph it. America's news media stepped in to show them how to keep their rarified status while also feeling like heroes. All it would cost would be a yearly subscription.
What is she talking about? It’s important for us to know what the magic trick is that we’re being fooled by – well some of us.
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