I am sitting here thumbing through my newly arrived Kenyon Alumni Magazine. Other than the obits and the class notes, it is rarely worth reading and is usually nauseatingly predictable as a vehicle for all the conventional campus orthodoxies. As ever, this one is full of all the woke BS that I expect to read from a hermetically sealed echo chamber that virtually every campus has become.
As does every college alumni magazine, the college publishes these little vignettes on those wonderful alumni who do all those enlightened, smart, successful things.
I see we have "Jane" (name disguised), who is doing good things in Arlington, Virginia. She is working hard to end "systemic racism," though it is never defined and merely asserted as "must be true." In 2017, she founded Facing Race in Arlington/White Folks Facing Race, which is designed to "connect community members who are working on becoming more anti-racist." Are there different levels of anti-racism? Just asking. What could be finer than her continuing personal mission of "unlearning white supremacy"?
We are told that the "survival" of her "colleagues of color" depends on her work. Can those sheeted nightriders who frequent Arlington, Virginia be but a few blocks away? So brave, so inspired — proud to be one of the 300 at Thermopylae on the Potomac.........To Read More......
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