Postmodern wokism destroys the foundations

Provoking confusion and division among the people, to the benefit of a few

      My last commentary was the third in a series of reflections on Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind; it addressed Bloom’s reflections on race and the university.  It included the following: 

In the three decades since Professor Bloom departed from this life, black activists have resorted to postmodern constructions, involving deliberate manipulations of empirical evidence and deliberate anti-empirical constructions of history, in order to preserve policies of preferential treatment for blacks, which are primarily of benefit to the black middle class, in a context shaped by increased middle class insecurity in the nation as a whole.  The notions of “systemic racism” and “white privilege,” as well as the idea that the nation was established in 1619, are examples of postmodern constructions, integral to an ideology that defends the particular interests of the black middle class, without regard for the needs and interests of other social sectors of the nation, including the…