What a great article! Thank you! This is why we have Trump, and Trumpism will last until it stops.

An innovation that would help would be a more nuanced vocabulary to describe the range of undesirable attitudes and behaviors, so that poor word choice isn't equated with lynching. For a time some scholars made a concerted effort to develop this language. "Unconscious bias" was originally a way of acknowledging that well-intended people might discriminate without animus. All has been swept under in the tide of antiracism.

On a darker note, I can't help but wonder about the motives of the antiracist movement. Ad hominem arguments are generally illogical, poor strategy and mean-spirited. Of course, antiracism is itself an exercise in the ad hominem, so perhaps the bridge has been crossed. In any event, there's a maxim in the criminal law that people are presumed to intend the natural and foreseeable consequences of their actions. The obviously counterproductive nature of pervasive charges of racism make me question whether eliminating racism is truly the goal of antiracists.