Something that has gone largely unnoticed is that the people who used to litter the streets screaming "racism" have disappeared. They have not gone away, but they have suddenly been marginalized. They spend their days on sites like Bluesky wondering why no one seems to care what they have to say anymore. The sites that used to pay for them to be pests are no longer interested in their material.
One possible reason for this is that racism may have run its course. This novel moral concept that emerged a century ago may have finally burned itself out in the last great moral panic. White people are no longer concerned that their observations of the world may be at odds with the morality of these strange people who demanded we worship a violent drug addict like George Floyd.
It is hard to imagine, given that racism as a sin has been with us since anyone can remember, but it is a novel concept. A century ago, few people would have understood the word at all, much less incorporated the concept. Even fifty years ago it was possible to dismiss the idea. In the long history of human civilization, this weird idea is nothing more than a strange middle-class fad.
The fad may have come to an end. Trump whacking away at things like affirmative action and disparate impact, with little howling from any one could signal something bigger than the death of the racism concept. It may signal the end to the long experiment to overcome the natural diversity of man. The search for racial equality, like the search for bigfoot, may be a fool's errand coming to an end.
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