Yes, I miss that too. I was just watching a video of an early 1980s bikini contest on YouTube, and thinking how eagerly I would go back to then if I could, to a time when the women were gorgeous, had no silicone, no duck lips, and (God be praised!) no tattoos (okay, the hair was pretty bad, but hairstyles aren't permanent); but also to a time when the U.S. didn't look like a declining power, and best of all, our society hadn't collectively lost its F@#%ING mind. Our urban centers weren't covered in feces and tent cities, there wasn't a panhandling bum posted at every stop light, and race relations were actually improving. We were actually moving closer toward MLK's ideal of a colorblind society.
Now, we're being told that if we desire a colorblind society, we are racist -- i.e. to want society to transcend racism is itself racist. Somehow. And if you believe Imbram Henry Henry Rogers (AKA Ibram X. Kendi), the only way to combat racial discrimination is to employ discrimination -- so-called antiracist discrimination. But try to spin it how you will, it still amounts to empowering elites to categorize people, and pick winners and losers in society based on those same people's immutable characteristics. In a word: racism.
See? To be antiracist, you have to be racist, just turn your ire on a different target.
And you'd think that enough people would have noticed that this approach has set race relations back fifty years, that our society is becoming increasingly tribal, and race relations are now worse than they have ever been since the Civil Rights era, but you would be wrong.
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