Today, almost 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education ushered in the Civil Rights Movement, there is an urgent need to reaffirm and advance its core principles. To insist on our common humanity. To demand that we are each entitled to equality under the law. To bring about a world in which we are all judged by the content of our character and not by the color of our skin. [More]
That sounds good on the surface, especially if a term they use, neoracism, means what it should in light of the above principles.
Ultimately it will depend on the people behind the effort, and I just don't have time to dig into that right now.
[Via Mack H]
Let's see -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Megyn Kelly, Andrew Sullivan, Steven Pinker (an old-time liberal who got cancelled for being old-time rational) -- I recognize those names off the top, and they appear to be reasonable. I do wish they hadn't chosen a name that collides with the rabidly progressive Fairness and Accuracy in Media.
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