Last month James Kirchick published an article for Tablet Magazine on the recent tidal wave of left-wing racism in America. Near the beginning of the article Kirchick lays his cards on the table.
Indeed, many of Trump’s opponents on the left have turned themselves into committed ideologues with a programmatic understanding of human behavior and human differences rooted in some biological component that is impossible or nearly impossible to change. The way the left talks incessantly about “white men,” or openly puts membership in victim groups above individual rights and virtues, is the essence of what most people mean by racism. Not “reverse racism”—but real, actual, racism.
From there Kirchick goes on to chronicle a series of recent outburst of racism from high ranking spokespeople and legislators on the political left. I knew that identity politics was a problem on the political left (something I have referred to here and here), but I had no idea of how systemic racism had become within left-wing ideology.
Read the whole thing.