reading: Bad News by Batya Ungar-Sargon 📚 "Racism is still a blight on American life. But wokeness is not how we heal; it has simply redefined the problem to the benefit of educated elites. By focusing on immutable characteristics like race, the woke moral panic has allowed economic elites to evade responsibility for their regressive view that elites should not only exist but rule. And in presenting race rather than class and income as America’s deep and worsening divide, the purveyors of wokeness have ended up comforting white, liberal elites, even as they have called them white supremacists." It ... dispatchesfromtheempire.net

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> She loses me here. The press, or at least every journalist I know, is not on the side of the elite.

I haven’t read it, but I’d guess when she says ‘The press’, there she means the owners, not the journalists. The Murdochs, Kochs, and so on.

@dispatchesfrom Yeah, that does seem ridiculous.