Great take.

You're right about anti-bias trainings being inneffective, and even the New York Times published an op-ed recently that said as much: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/opinion/social-change-bias-training.html

But I would go further than that and point out that "wokeness" or whatever we call the viewpoint on race, and other identitiy issues that has come from left-wing scholarship in the past few decades, has not been effective at combating racism at all. If anything, it seems to have made it worse.

Example: the rise of Trumpism, and the increase in racially motivated political violence on the both the left, and the right. Also the inability of grassroots movements to make progress on police reform, or mass incarceration.

Whereas the "integrationist" or "color-blind" vision that was dominant in the 1960s Civil Rights movement was very effective in reaching its goals. And that paradigm was also foundtional to the abolition movement in the 19th century.

My beef with "wokeness" is that it just doesn't work. It has mired itself in the culture war, and alientaed millions of good people who think it goes too far. Then to boot, it's emoboldened plenty of bad actors who only feel that it attacks them directly.

We need to return to the vision that emphasized our shared humanity, and encouraged us to come together. In other words, we need to stick with what works.

That's my take take, anyway. Thanks for the article. I really enjoyed it.