The Secular Religion Of Neoracism
John McWhorter exposes Ibram Kendi (or, formerly, and less wildly profitably, Henry Rogers), for the racist, irrational huckster he is:

Ibram Kendi is someone who, in the role of social scientist, proposes a "Department of Antiracism," in neglect of a little something called the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Kendi's insight on education, untethered to any engagement with pedagogical or psychometric theory, is that we should evaluate students on the basis of their "desire to know" rather than anything they actually do. This is a person whose most ready counsel to the public about interracial adoption is that white adopters might still be racists even if they don't think they are.

Kendi is a professor who, in the guise of being trained in intellectual inquiry, bristles at real questions. He dismisses them as either racism or as frustrated responses to envy, as if he bears not proposal but truth. His ideas are couched in simple oppositions mired somewhere between catechism and fable, of a sort alien to what intellectual engagement in the modern world consists of, utterly foreign to exchange among conference academics or even Zooming literati. And on that, let us remember that he is also someone who, into the twenty-first century, was walking around thinking of whites as "devils" à la Minister Farrakhan.

Here's the rub: The people who sit drinking all of this in and calling it deep wouldn't let it pass for a minute if he were white.

There is, in short, a degree of bigotry in how this man is received by people of power and influence.

How to be an antiracist? Stop pretending about Ibram Kendi.

Where, on the other hand, do the Kendi bots take things? Well, there's the Dalton School, which used to be a tony private educatorium when I lived in New York, and now basically seems to find no subject in which it can't inject a little white shaming. McWhorter:

Here are some snapshots from Dalton, Fall 2020 from concerned parents who, because if they went public with their names they would be pilloried as bigots nationwide, are staying anonymous.

"Every class this year has had an obsessive focus on race and identity, 'racist cop' reenactments in science, 'de-centering whiteness' in art class, learning about white supremacy and sexuality in health class."

"In place of a joyful progressive education, students are exposed to an excessive focus on skin color and sexuality, before they even understand what sex is. Children are bewildered or bored after hours of discussing these topics in the new long-format classes."

"Why would anyone voluntarily send their children to be taught that they are guilty regardless of their decency and kindness? A school where they are constantly reminded of the color of their skin, not the content of their character. What Black parent wants the other children to feel sorry for their kid and look at them differently? We have spoken with dozens of families, of all colors and backgrounds, who are in shock and looking for an alternative school for their children."

Now - The Elect (my term for the hyperwoke who are hijacking constructive leftist ideals in this nation) will claim that this sort of thing is exactly what education needs to be, and that white (or "white") parents who object are displaying "fragility." However, we get that "fragility" notion from one of the worst books ever written, as I have argued here. What Dalton is doing is a tragic and grisly substraction of what education should be.