Author: Ben Bartee
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The neoliberal mantra – reflexively repeated for generations in the halls of power — that “diversity is our strength” has failed.
As it turns out, the social scientists were right: without a cohesive set of features shared by members across a population — such as culture, language, and, yes, ethnicity — social collapse due to in-fighting is inevitable.
Against the harsh odds imposed by biological realities, America gave it the old college try. In the tumultuous race-fueled carnage of mid-2020, though, we see the unraveling accelerate before our eyes. The end of our multicultural experiment, lamentable to some and laudable to others, is nigh.
At the behest of social engineers — who have inundated our schoolchildren’s psyches with Orwellian “diversity initiatives” and invaded our workplaces with onerous “cultural sensitivity training” for decades — we learned to pay lip service to the melting pot theory of cultural assimilation. We honored the starving masses yearning to breathe free who found refuge on American soil. In our American mythology, if not in practice, we prioritized multiculturalism.
The experiment was noble in many ways. Who wouldn’t want a better, more inclusive world – one in which we judge one another on the content of our character? Racism, along with any form of prejudice, is anathema to our loftiest philosophical assertions in the West regarding the primacy of the individual and personal responsibility.
As a moral matter, we don’t lionize an individual based on immutable characteristics that don’t inform their value as members of society, nor do we scapegoat anyone for those same immutable characteristics.
Our aspirational morality is righteous in that sense, and we stand alone in history. However, we need not turn a blind eye to the pitfalls of pretending that race does not inform how we relate to one another in pluralistic social negotiations. It has then, it does now, and it will in the future.
The essential nagging issue is that the vast American unity of diverse ethnicities, religions, and cultures was always, inescapably, purely tenuous; it hinged on the continued economic prosperity of the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. As long as enough of the people had enough material comfort to prevent a social crisis from bubbling over into conflict, the Great American Diversity Experiment remained plausible.
Only the thinnest veil of unity — propped up by pseudo-woke media figures who cynically employ “diversity politics” to keep a slumbering populist right in check — kept us from each other’s throats until now.
As the middle class has begun to crack, we have seen the first drips through the crumbling facade of the multicultural dam. If push comes to shove, we’ll see it collapse.
The calls to end racist policing and the ad hoc campaigns by angry mobs to tear down Confederate memorial statues signify the firing shots of a potentially devastating race war.
Never let a good crisis go to waste is the mantra of the elites.
In tumultuous times, their tactics have extra potency. They reach for more power.
But this is also when the elite are most vulnerable.
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