BLM was a form of mass neurosis – spiked
The elites wanted to get ahead of the media wave they knew was coming and say, We understand America is racist, we re racist . This was absurd. It was particularly absurd in universities, where this kind of self-flagellation happened the most. Right now, there is probably not a single university in the US that is discriminating against black people. The opposite is the case, in fact. If you are a black student or a black academic, you have an enormous advantage over your peers. There is not a single faculty that is not desperately trying to find underrepresented minorities or women to hire.
When college presidents get up and say that Yale is racist, it s all a fantasy. It s fiction. It is a form of mass neurosis. But it is still extraordinarily consequential, because it impacts on every single institution. Any institution today that has racial disparities in its demographics is considered to be racist per se. That s the only allowable explanation for racial disparities. What I m trying to do is provide alternative explanations. As long as racism is the only allowable explanation for why Google s engineers are not 13 per cent black or why the physics department at Harvard University is not 13 per cent black, then these institutions are under threat.
O Neill: How quickly did it become clear to you that, in the meltdown after the police killing of George Floyd, we were witnessing something more consequential than just an outburst of anger?
Mac Donald: It was so much more than an outburst of anger. This was a revolution being carried forth in the upper reaches of elite institutions. Not through looting or arson, but through the language of anti-racism . There was hardly a single institution in the US that did not put out a statement of self-flagellation, accusing itself of white supremacy.
Heather MacDonald interviewed.