think<\/a>\u00a0it\u2019s racist even to refer to \u201cthe French\u201d). In the U.S., there were traditionally three races, but once Hispanic, and now even MENA (middle eastern or north African) are added as options in an expanded race\/ethnicity category, no other option can be excluded. Hispanic means \u201cdescended in part from some kinds of Europeans.\u201d Anyone then qualifies to having a special \u201cother\u201d race\/ethnicity either under that specific sentence or by substituting the name of a different continent. It\u2019s kind of rude that they don\u2019t have a special box for your unique variety of race\/ethnicity, but that doesn\u2019t mean you have to submit to their unsafe and tyrannizing categories.<\/p>\nOther it is, then.<\/p>\n
Once you make those declarations, all sorts of opportunities will open up. You\u2019ll have the chance to join the queer affinity group. If everyone does so on the same day, that next meeting should be fascinating \u2013 and I\u2019m guessing that the \u201cdemands\u201d that group makes will change pretty radically. Then set up affinity groups for other races and for non-binary employees. At last, you\u2019ll get to have an affinity group too, and can have long talks with management about the need to, oh, I don\u2019t know, treat people like unique human beings rather than avatars of increasingly incoherent groupings.<\/p>\n
The real equity warriors at the company will want to object. The central purpose of equity, after all, is to discriminate against whites, men, and straight people, and suddenly there won\u2019t be any of those left to discriminate against. But there won\u2019t be anything they can do about it. If they try to dig deeper into your self-identifications, first ask them if they\u2019re challenging everyone\u2019s, and by what systematic process.\u00a0There\u2019s no way for them to respond. If they\u2019re focusing on you because \u201cyou don\u2019t act queer\/non-binary,\u201d or \u201cyou don\u2019t look \u2018other,\u2019\u201d then they\u2019re openly and unquestionably discriminating on the basis of race and sex. But if they start questioning everyone\u2019s claims, then they\u2019ll have undermined the lunatic edifice that they\u2019ve built for themselves (and they\u2019ll also then immediately have to try to reconstruct it to keep the radical self-identifiers happy). After all, once you\u2019ve given the radicals the keys to the company, as, say, Disney has done to the Kingdom, you can\u2019t very well stand up to them later.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, if the companies start making up new loopholes \u2013 if, for instance, suddenly non-binary or queer don\u2019t count as diverse categories \u2013 then the lawsuits nearly file and decide themselves: some people\u2019s presentation of their sexualities and genders are accepted, but others are challenged, because of their relationship to outdated and restrictive stereotypes? Find the fainting couch!<\/p>\n
But also, per Alinsky, consider continuing the strategy with slight changes. Any Irish blood? Declare yourself \u201cOther\/Hibernic,\u201d write it in under Hispanic, and then demand an affinity group, a diversity categorization, and an explanation about why historical discrimination against Irish people doesn\u2019t matter. There\u2019s no non-racist (and non-insane) response that can be made. Ditto with the other categories: make your group-category more specific and then loudly demand that your special little niche get all the privileges that apply to every other plea for endless attention and special privileges.<\/p>\n
And with that, I leave you with another of one Alinky\u2019s miserable rules: \u201cthe real action is in the enemy\u2019s reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Equity and self-identification theory can\u2019t be made to work together, but they can\u2019t be sundered at this point without knocking down the whole miserable woke edifice. Wouldn\u2019t that be a shame?<\/p>\n
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Scott Shepard<\/a> is a fellow at the\u00a0<\/em> National Center for Public Policy Research<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and Director of its\u00a0<\/em>Free Enterprise Project<\/em><\/a>. This was originally published at RealClearMarkets<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservatives have for some time taken to\u00a0quoting\u00a0Saul Alinsky that would-be reformers should \u201c[m]ake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.\u201d Often the quote is deployed in tandem with frustration at how hard it is to do that when the hard left\u00a0holds\u00a0so many…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,655],"tags":[712],"yoast_head":"\n
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