Carlson starts off this chapter by saying that identity politics is being incited as a way to distract the populous from important economic problems that our ruling class is creating.
He gives numerous examples of the growth of racial identity politics in the U.S., including college segregation and growing anti-white discrimination. He also spends several pages talking about Ta-Nehisi Coates, his career, his thoroughly unimpressive book Between the World and Me. Although the book is poorly written and not especially insightful, it received raving praise from white leftists. Indeed, the only prominent "mainstream" voices who disagreed with this assessment were black intellectuals, several of whom Carlson quotes denigrating the book. (Any day now "denigrating" will be declared an unacceptably racist term, by the way.)
Carlson also documents how, for all their talk about loving diversity, leftists with the resources to do so strive to avoid it, showing how they all live in neighborhoods much whiter and safer than the kind they advocate for. This, by the way, includes prominent black politicians like Barack Obama and the execrable Maxine Waters.
As one last example of the problems created by identity politics, Carlson describes the breakdown of the "March for Science" because, shocker, actual scientists (even what passes for scientists today), are overwhelmingly white and male.
Finally, Carlson anticipates the rise of white identity politics and worries what this could do to our country.
I haven't gotten to look at all of the book suggestions yet. I'll have to review those and do a midweek post to see what we want to cover next.
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