Anatomy of a Moral Panic: The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.

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15. The desire to minimize racism is interesting

It's not liberalism. It's . . . something else.

But it's interesting to watch, certainly.

It isn't new antisemitism. It's the same old shit I've watched on campuses my entire adult life (about 25 years now). Just because it's new to people (or, at least, that's what they're claiming) speaks to the power of the desire to turn their eyes away from it.

There's a reason people are working very, very hard not to see it. That it never results in even the slightest self-awareness or self-examination is probably the least surprising thing I've witnessed.

This illiberalism isn't actually anti-racist. That's just what gets written on the pamphlets and is almost religious in its ability to instill moral righteousness on unexamined and unacknowledged immoral behaviors and views.

I've said it a billion times. Self-awareness is just not a thing. People genuinely don't seem to understand what they look like.