How did race politics go off the rails in the West
The Same Drugs
- Published
- August 17, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 0m
- Summary source
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- Last updated
- Sep 6, 2026
Discusses society, culture.
Summary
Progressive narratives around race, immigration, colonization, and empire have gone off the rails. Ahistorical notions about "white, Western colonizers" have warped politics to the point of nonsense. As a result, conversations around "cultural appropriation" have made everything from dreadlocks to hoop earrings to Mexican food a subject of debate. DEI pol…
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Progressive narratives around race, immigration, colonization, and empire have gone off the rails. Ahistorical notions about "white, Western colonizers" have warped politics to the point of nonsense. As a result, conversations around "cultural appropriation" have made everything from dreadlocks to hoop earrings to Mexican food a subject of debate. DEI policies have made a laughing stock of our institutions.Mass immigration, supported by progressives as a means to assuage their "white guilt" and
Themes
- society
- culture