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“#It\u2019s bigger than CRT: Radical ideologies transforming US<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\u2018WHAT happ<\/a>ened to you?\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a question I get a lot on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cWhen did you become so far right?\u201d \u201cWhy have you become a white supremacist, transphobic, misogynistic eugenicist?\u201d Or, of course: \u201cSee! I told you who he really was! Just take the hood off, Sully!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s trolling, mainly. And it\u2019s a weapon for some in the elite to wield against others in the kind of emotional blackmail spiral that was first pioneered on elite college campuses. But it\u2019s worth answering, a year after I was booted from New York Magazine for my unacceptable politics. Because it seems to me that the dynamic should really be the other way round.<\/p>\n

The real question is: what happened to you?<\/p>\n

The CRT debate is just the latest squall in a tempest brewing and building for five years or so. And, yes, some of the liberal critiques of a Fox News<\/a>-hyped campaign are well taken. Is this a wedge issue for the GOP? Of course it is. Are they using the term \u201ccritical race theory\u201d as a cynical, marketing boogeyman? Of course they are. Are some dog whistles involved? A few. Are crude bans on public servants\u2019 speech dangerous? Absolutely.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But does that mean there isn\u2019t a real issue here? Of course it doesn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Take a big step back. Observe what has happened in our discourse since around 2015. Forget CRT for a moment and ask yourself: is nothing going on here but Republican propaganda and guile? Can you not see that the Republicans may be acting, but they are also reacting \u2014 against something that is right in front of our noses?<\/p>\n

What is it? It is, I\u2019d argue, the sudden, rapid, stunning shift in the belief system of the American elites. It has sent the whole society into a profound cultural dislocation. It is, in essence, an ongoing moral panic against the specter of \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d which is now bizarrely regarded as an accurate description of the largest, freest, most successful multiracial democracy in human history.<\/p>\n

We all know it\u2019s happened. The elites, increasingly sequestered within one political party and one media monoculture, educated by colleges and private schools that have become hermetically sealed against any nonleft dissent, have had a \u201csocial justice reckoning\u201d these past few years. And they have been ideologically transformed, with countless cascading consequences.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Take it from a New York Times woke star, Kara Swisher, who celebrated this week that \u201cthe country\u2019s social justice movement is reshaping how we talk about, well, everything.\u201d She\u2019s right \u2014 and certainly about the NYT and all mainstream journalism.<\/p>\n

This is the media hub of the \u201csocial justice movement.\u201d And the core point of that movement, its essential point, is that liberalism is no longer enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not just not enough, but itself a means to perpetuate \u201cwhite supremacy,\u201d designed to oppress, harm and terrorize minorities and women, and in dire need of dismantling. That\u2019s a huge deal. And it explains a lot.<\/p>\n

The reason \u201ccritical race theory\u201d is a decent approximation for this new orthodoxy is that it was precisely this exasperation with liberalism\u2019s seeming inability to end racial inequality in a generation that prompted Derrick Bell et al. to come up with the term in the first place, and Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw to subsequently universalize it beyond race to every other possible dimension of human identity (\u201cintersectionality\u201d).<\/p>\n

A specter of invisible and unfalsifiable \u201csystems\u201d and \u201cstructures\u201d and \u201cinternal biases\u201d arrived to hover over the world. Some of this critique was specific and helpful: the legacy of redlining, the depth of the wealth gap. But much was tendentious post-modern theorizing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A woman holds up a sign during a rally against \u201ccritical race theory\u201d (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia, June 12, 2021.<\/figcaption>
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The popular breakthrough was Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019 essay on reparations in The Atlantic and his subsequent, gut-wrenching memoir, \u201cBetween The World And Me.\u201d He combined the worldview and vocabulary of CRT with the vivid lived experience of his own biography. He is a beautifully gifted writer, and I am not surprised he had such an emotional impact, even if, in my view, the power of his prose blinded many to the radical implications of the ideology he surrendered to.<\/p>\n

The movement is much broader than race \u2014 as anyone who is dealing with matters of sex and gender will tell you. The best moniker I\u2019ve read to describe this mishmash of postmodern thought and therapy culture ascendant among liberal white elites is Wesley Yang\u2019s coinage: \u201cthe successor ideology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The \u201cstructural oppression\u201d is white supremacy, but that can also be expressed more broadly, along Crenshaw lines, to describe a hegemony that is saturated with \u201canti-Blackness,\u201d misogyny, and transphobia, in a miasma of social \u201ccis-heteronormative patriarchal white supremacy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the term \u201csuccessor ideology\u201d works because it centers the fact that this ideology wishes, first and foremost, to repeal and succeed a liberal society and democracy.<\/p>\n

In the successor ideology, there is no escape, no refuge, from the ongoing nightmare of oppression and violence \u2014 and you are either fighting this and \u201con the right side of history,\u201d or you are against it and abetting evil. There is no neutrality. No space for skepticism. No room for debate. No space even for staying silent. (Silence, remember, is violence \u2014 perhaps the most profoundly anti-liberal slogan ever invented.)<\/p>\n

And that tells you about the will to power behind it. Liberalism leaves you alone. The successor ideology will never let go of you. Liberalism is only concerned with your actions. The successor ideology is concerned with your mind, your psyche, and the deepest recesses of your soul. Liberalism will let you do your job, and let you keep your politics private. S.I. will force you into a struggle session as a condition for employment.<\/p>\n

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People hold signs during a Black Lives Matter protest near The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors building on the first anniversary of George Floyd\u2019s murder on May 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.<\/figcaption>
Apu Gomes\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What happened to me? You know what I want to know: What on earth has happened to you?<\/p>\n

At the moment, I\u2019m recording an audiobook for a new collection of my writing, from 1989-2021, \u201cOut On A Limb,\u201d to be published next month. (More to come on that next week.) It covers the Obama years, including my impression in May 2007 that he\u2019d be the next president and why I found him so appealing a figure. It\u2019s been a shocking reminder of how our politics has been transformed since then:<\/p>\n

My favorite moment was a very simple one. He referred to the anniversary of the March on Selma, how he went and how he came back and someone (I don\u2019t remember who now) said to him: \u201cThat was a great celebration of African-American history.\u201d To which Obama said he replied: \u201cNo, no, no, no, no. That was not a great celebration of African-American history. That was a celebration of American history.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

How much further can you get from the ideology of the 1619 Project \u2014 that rejects any notion of white contributions to black freedom? In his Jeremiah Wright speech, the best of his career, this is what Obama said of Wright\u2019s CRT-inspired words, damning America:<\/p>\n

They expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country \u2014 a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America . . . The profound mistake of Reverend Wright\u2019s sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It\u2019s that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country \u2014 a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old \u2014 is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is what I still believe. Do you?<\/p>\n

A plank of successor ideology, for example, is that the only and exclusive reason for racial inequality is \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d Culture, economics, poverty, criminality, family structure: all are irrelevant, unless seen as mere emanations of white control. Even discussing these complicated factors is racist, according to Ibram X. Kendi.<\/p>\n

Obama was a straddler, of course, and did not deny that \u201cso many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.\u201d I don\u2019t deny that either. Who could? But neither did he deny African-American agency or responsibility:<\/p>\n

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Signs opposing Critical Race Theory line the entrance to the Loudoun County School Board headquarters, in Ashburn, Virginia, June 22, 2021.<\/figcaption>
REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It means taking full responsibility for own lives \u2014 by demanding more from our fathers, and spending more time with our children, and reading to them, and teaching them that while they may face challenges and discrimination in their own lives, they must never succumb to despair or cynicism; they must always believe that they can write their own destiny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To say this today would evoke instant accusations of being a white supremacist and racist. That\u2019s how far the left has moved: Obama as an enabler of white supremacy. You keep asking: what happened to me? I remain an Obamacon, same as I always have been. What, in contrast, has happened to you?<\/p>\n

Look how far the left\u2019s war on liberalism has gone.<\/p>\n

Due process? If you\u2019re a male on campus, gone. Privacy? Strip<\/a>ped away \u2014 by anonymous rape accusations, exposure of private e-mails, violence against people\u2019s private homes, screaming at folks in restaurants, sordid expos\u00e9s of sexual encounters, eagerly published by woke mags. Non-violence? Exceptions are available if you want to \u201cpunch a fascist.\u201d Free speech? Only if you don\u2019t mind being fired and ostracized as a righteous consequence. Free association? You\u2019ve got to be kidding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Religious freedom? Illegitimate bigotry. Equality? Only group equity counts now, and individuals of the wrong identity can and must be discriminated against. Color-blindness? Another word for racism. Mercy? Not for oppressors. Intent? Irrelevant. Objectivity? A racist lie. Science<\/a>? A manifestation of white supremacy. Biological sex? Replaced by socially constructed gender so that women have penises and men have periods. The rule of law? Not for migrants or looters. Borders? Racist. Viewpoint diversity? A form of violence against the oppressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We are going through the greatest radicalization of the elites since the 1960s. This isn\u2019t coming from the ground up. It\u2019s being imposed ruthlessly from above, marshaled with a fusillade of constant MSM propaganda, and its victims are often the poor and the black and the brown. It nearly lost the Democrats the last election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Excerpted with permission from Andrew Sullivan\u2019s Substack, https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/\u00a0<\/a><\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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