Bari Weiss: The Miseducation of America’s Elites

Everyone hates these people.

The polls don’t reflect the true level of brewing resentment because college educated White professionals lie about their true beliefs. No one has been driven further underground, feels more marginalized and more deeply resents the yoke of political correctness or wokeness than those who operate inside these institutions which are now full of the brats who are constantly surveilling their co-workers.

If you like the wrong tweet or associate with the wrong person or break racial etiquette or challenge the narrative in the slightest unintentional way, you could be stepping on a career ending landmine like Donald McNeil, Jr. It is a world where you can’t say what you think without fear of retaliation and where you are constantly walking on eggshells and looking over your shoulder for commissars. Imagine what it is like for the White working class to be insulted, attacked and demonized by these people 24/7 now.

Bari Weiss of all people is tired of it.

City Journal:

“The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls. They are usually coordinating soccer practices and carpools, but now they come together to strategize. They say that they could face profound repercussions if anyone knew they were talking.

But the situation of late has become too egregious for emails or complaining on conference calls. So one recent weekend, on a leafy street in West Los Angeles, they gathered in person and invited me to join. …

What does it say about the current state of that meritocracy, then, that it wants kids fluent in critical race theory and “white fragility,” even if such knowledge comes at the expense of Shakespeare? “The colleges want children—customers—that are going to be pre-aligned to certain ideologies that originally came out of those colleges,” says a STEM teacher at one of New York’s prestigious prep schools. “I call it woke-weaning. And that’s the product schools like mine are offering.” …

But physics looks different these days. “We don’t call them Newton’s laws anymore,” an upperclassman at the school informs me. “We call them the three fundamental laws of physics. They say we need to ‘decenter whiteness,’ and we need to acknowledge that there’s more than just Newton in physics.” …

For high schoolers, the message is more explicit. A Fieldston student says that students are often told “if you are white and male, you are second in line to speak.” This is considered a normal and necessary redistribution of power.

At Harvard-Westlake, the school recently administered the debunked implicit-bias test to tenth-graders. It was technically optional, but several parents I spoke with said that their children felt compelled to take it. One mother confided that her son said to her, “Mom, I just found out I’m a racist and I prefer White Europeans.” Her child is mixed race. “For my kid to come home and be told by his school you are a racist—I was aghast. I was so, so angry. …

Power in America now comes from speaking woke, a highly complex and ever-evolving language.  …

Harvard-Westlake English teacher welcomes students back after summer with: “I am a queer white womxn of European descent. I use [ she | her ] pronouns but also feel comfortable using [ they | them ] pronouns.” She attached a “self-care letter” quoting Audre Lorde: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” …

Woe betide the working-class kid who arrives in college and uses Latino instead of “Latinx,” or who stumbles conjugating verbs because a classmate prefers to use the pronouns they/them. Fluency in woke is an effective class marker and key for these princelings to retain status in university and beyond. The parents know this, and so woke is now the lingua franca of the nation’s best prep schools. As one mother in Los Angeles puts it: “This is what all the colleges are doing, so we have to do it. The thinking is: if Harvard does it, it must be good. …

Fluency in woke is an effective class marker and key for these princelings to retain status in university and beyond. The parents know this, and so woke is now the lingua franca of the nation’s best prep schools. …”

If you think about it, this is why David Shor is pessimistic.

This is the issue which more than any other is polarizing the country and realigning the two parties along class, cultural and education lines. It is strengthening White racial consciousness while actually decreasing racial polarization because so many blacks and Hispanics don’t understand it either. They don’t understand why there are 500 different genders now or why “trans” issues are so important.

Black Lives Matter and open borders is repulsing “Latinx” voters. It is not just the White allies who have turned on Black Lives Matter and who no longer believe that George Floyd was murdered. Blacks have turned even more strongly against Black Lives Matter because it has unleashed a crime wave that mostly affects their communities. Only 18% of Americans support shit like “Defund the Police” including only 28% of blacks. After 2020, 64% of Trump voters now say their racial identity is important to them and a whopping 87% of Trump voters are worried about anti-White discrimination.

I’ve been somewhat amazed by this turn of events. If you turn on the television or read the New York Times or Washington Post, the PMCs on CNN and MSNBC are more obsessed with race now than White Nationalists. The woke professional class (at least those who sincerely believe in and parrot this stupid ideology) turn everything into a racial issue. Virtually everything is now reduced to “white supremacy.” Some recent examples include who is getting the COVID vaccine and America’s transportation system. COVID is a systematically racist virus because of the racial inequity in death rates.

The “Coalition of the Ascendant” prophecy isn’t happening. Democrats barely won the 2020 election. They have less power in the state legislatures. Joe has a thinner majority in Congress than Barack Obama. It has gotten so bad that Democrats have to use budget reconciliation to pass a bill that has the support of 70% of the public to give people free money. They don’t have the juice to even do popular things like raise the minimum wage because of their cultural toxicity to White working class voters in rural states.

What is Joe going to do now after signing the COVID bill? Is he going to wage a “War on Terror” against “domestic extremism” and the “insurgency” which only exists on CNN and MSNBC? What happens if he peaks after signing the COVID bill and the rest of his agenda just flatlines in the Senate?

Note: A few years ago, I figured out who Antifa were when I was reading anarchist websites and noticed that they used this weird terminology like “Latinx” and “folx” that no one who is working class ever uses. I noticed how they were also seemingly invincible and were never punished for committing crimes. They were able to get away with all the rioting last year because mommy and daddy are well to do White professionals and the rules which apply to everyone else just can’t apply to Precious.