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This Tweet by Wesley Yang is about a man named Rian Malan, who back in the days of apartheid worked against his own country and people to bring black rule:
Author is a white South African and a much admired writer published and favorably reviewed in the organs of liberal consensus, (LRB and NYRB), not just one of Murdoch s shouters.
He describes the breakdown in South Africa as Kendi-ism in action
Rian Malan, an old stock Afrikaner whose Huguenot roots in South Africa go back to 1688, is the author of
My Traitor s Heart, which is about how he betrayed his fellow Afrikaners his nation, I suppose you d have to say, rather than his country, which is still there under black rule.
Reprinted with permission from Alternet
Although not as well-known as other right-wing think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the libertarian Cato Institute, the Claremont Institute has been around since 1979 â when it was founded in California by students of the late Harry V. Jaffa, who had been a speechwriter during Sen. Barry Goldwater s 1964 presidential campaign. Claremont has taken a decidedly Trumpian turn in recent years, and in a lengthy article published by
The Bulwark this week, Laura K. Field (a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center) argues that Claremont has been overtaken by far-right conspiracy theorists, election lies and authoritarianism.
America, June 27, 2021].
In practice, this just means adherence to a new faith a faith preached not just from the pulpits but from CEOs on Wall Street, the White House, entertainment, and professional sports.
Some might dismiss the new “Woke” religion as simply consumerism with vague moralistic trappings. However, as the blistering reaction against the desecration of the Floyd statue shows, there’s real fervor behind this. Traditional religious institutions have either surrendered to it, or, more commonly, enlisted in the charge.
General Robert E. Lee and General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson were once honored by Americans as model Christian leaders, regardless of their Civil War difference. Today, the Southern Baptist Convention, once the redoubt of Southern Christian conservatism, is trembling before Critical Race Theory.