See here. Some BLM group in Dallas (called Dallas Justice Now) sent a message to whites living in a wealthy part of that area telling them not to send their kids to elite schools. Heh. This is so perfect I can’t help but think it is really from some white supremacist group or a white supremacist infiltrator. This is because so far the BLM activities have not really impacted elite whites very much. Sure, they have to pretend that George Floyd’s death really matters, that Derek Chauvin wasn’t railroaded, that statues being pulled down don’t really matter, and that crazy and hateful ideas being taught in our schools will have no effect, but that doesn’t seem to bother them. What mattered was getting Trump out of office and oppressing the deplorables. But not being allowed to have their children go to elite schools when they have been planning for this right from the time their child was born? Uh-oh. How does that hurt the Trump supporters?
Well, BLM did say they wanted to burn down everything. Maybe the elites didn’t take this seriously, but a cynical observer (like me) heard that pronouncement and immediately began thinking of things they were not going to burn down. Basketball arenas? No way. The welfare office? No way. Elite schools? No way. But it seems that even though elite schools won’t be burned down literally, they will be burned down figuratively. They will be taken over by those who resent the wealthy whites who send their kids there, even if those whites are Democrats.
BLM’s bill is coming due. How will the elites react? I imagine a lot of people who are not part of the elite and whose kids barely got into those schools will resent the whole business, and will say so out loud. But then the message isn’t aimed at them (even though they may be affected by it). It’s aimed at elites who simply assume their children will get in, with the only question being which elite school will their children choose or get chosen by. How will these elites react? If they had any sense, they will start quietly backing away from BLM. Any actual justification they attempt for the presence of their children and not poor black children will quickly spiral out of control. The last thing these elites want is for anyone to raise the question: “Why do we need elite schools in an egalitarian society?” The answer is so obviously that we don’t need them that anyone truly committed to equity has to agree not to send their kids to them. And that is so obviously repugnant to our elites that they will never allow the question to be raised (at least not by anyone with access to the Megaphone).
So, expect that in a few months, all of this business about BLM, CRT, math being racist, and so on will quietly fade away.
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