This is NYT headline morning after JD's grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point's hate-fest?!

[Prairie Gates]

9. The discourse of "privilege," while probably capturing something true

was a rhetorical mistake - a failure. People like Robin D'Angelo went around the country giving talks that many people were forced to attend that discussed "white fragility," and promoted a story of privilege that many people simply have a hard time accepting. It was a trap, of course: the more you don't accept it, the truer it is! That's a recipe for disaster: it produced precisely the kind of environment that provided fertile ground for the TPUSA's and JD Vance's of the world.

I actually attended a D'Angelo talk during the tail-end of COVID (not mandatory, but strongly encouraged). It was a shitshow. People nodding along enthusiastically, but a lot of people - you could tell - just stewing, tight-lipped. I'm sure she made some valid points, but it was mostly invective. Nobody "had to apologize," but it sure felt like that's what was being asked for. Rhetorically, the privilege argument has been disastrous for left politics. Disastrous.