Source: Town Hall
by Victor Davis Hanson
“One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) was its insistence that roughly 70 percent of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color. In contrast, the other ‘diverse’ 30% were de facto considered the victimized. In such absurd binaries, the left returned to the old ‘one-drop’ rule of the antebellum South, suggesting that anyone with any nonwhite ancestry was a minority victim. And once that Marxist-inspired dichotomy was institutionalized, a corollary was established that the self-declared racially oppressed cannot themselves be racist oppressors. But human nature is universal and transcends race. One lamentable characteristic of our species is that we are all prone to excess and crudity if not deterred, especially once civilizational restraint is lost.” (05/23/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2025/05/23/are-some-racist-slurs-ok-n2657525