David Brooks vs Multiculturalism

David Brooks is just an idiot. What else can I say?

David Brooks: The Death of Multiculturalism - New York Times

In 1994 multiculturalism was at its high-water mark, and Richard Bernstein wrote “Dictatorship of Virtue,” describing its excesses: the campus speech codes, the forced sensitivity training, the purging of dead white males from curriculums, the people who had their careers ruined by dubious charges of racism, sexism and ethnocentrism.

Then two years later, the liberal writer Michael Tomasky published “Left for Dead,” which argued that the progressive movement was being ruined by multicultural identity politics. Democrats have lost the ability to talk to Americans collectively, Tomasky wrote, and seem to be a collection of aggrieved out-groups: feminists, blacks, gays and so on.

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That's because over the past few years, multiculturalism has faded away. A different sort of liberalism is taking over the Democratic Party.

Multiculturalism is in decline for a number of reasons. First, the identity groups have ossified. The feminist organizations were hypocritical during the Clinton impeachment scandal, and both fevered and weak during the Roberts and Alito hearings. Meanwhile, the civil rights groups have become stale and uninteresting.

Interesting assertions here, Mr. Brooks. Do you have any evidence regarding fevered yet weak feminist groups? And stale and uninteresting civil rights. Hmmm. Do you mean uninteresting to you? Or what?