"Scapegoating gains support from those who hope to escape its fury. Stroll down the hallway of any academic department and you'll see door after door festooned with 'safe space' stickers, rainbow decals, Black Lives Matter signs, the latest flier from the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office. Each one is an attempt at what Shelby Steele calls 'dissociation.' I may be white, even male, even married to a white woman, with white kids, but I am not the one you are looking for. He is over there."
James F. Keating, "Woke religion," a review of American awakening: identity politics and other afflictions of our time, by Joshua Mitchell, First things no. 312 (April 2021): 51 (50-52). Cf. Havel.
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