The Latest Academic Fad: ‘Color Blind Racism’
1st August 2018
Instead of focusing on actual ways in which our rules often handicap “people of color” (such as civil asset forfeiture, occupational licensing, and, above all, public education), many academics prefer to rant that it is racism that holds them back. No, not the old racism of the segregationists, but subtle racism that’s so deeply embedded that few white people are aware of it. Only the “woke” among us can understand how institutional racism is everywhere.
If you try to deny that, well, you merely prove how racist you are. Claiming to favor a color-blind society is, in the eyes of many deep thinkers, racism too.