Rod Dreher - Adam Posen: Woke Capitalist For Social Justice

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Adam Posen:  Woke Capitalist For Social Justice

Harvard PhD says domestic manufacturing concerns are a 'fetish' for keeping dumb white males in power

Rod Dreher
Oct 7, 2022

This is making the rounds on Twitter, but for those who don't have Twitter, you have to see it to believe it:

https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1578130142655905816

When Adam Posen's BMW breaks down on the side of the road, I hope none of the working class people he so despises stops to fix it. Maybe he can call a fellow Harvard-educated economist.

As much as Ronald Reagan loved capitalism, it is impossible to imagine him saying something so hateful and so despicable. As someone I follow on Twitter put it, what's amazing is that this spokesman for ultra-capitalists (see the Peterson Institute's board of directors) dresses up his utter contempt for the working class in the language of social justice.

I have a friend who devoutly believes that Woke Capitalism is a plot by the super-rich to buy off the Left, to dissuade them from pursuing socialist policies that would affect the rich's bottom line. That is, if you go all in for "social justice," today's Left will leave you alone about "economic justice."

To be clear, I'm not a socialist, and I think capitalism is on balance a good thing. But the arrogance of someone like Adam Posen reveals the hatred many in his class have for working-class Americans -- especially white males. Sooner or later, someone will arise to speak for that despised class -- someone with more courage and common sense than Donald Trump. And when he does, the Adam Posens among us had better take to their yachts and sail to the Caymans.

It's baffling that Posen doesn't seem to know that black and brown people work industrial jobs too. Still, it is worth reflecting that the same contempt for the white working class exhibited by Posen exists in more veiled versions throughout the elites. In my years in newspaper journalism, I worked with liberals almost exclusively. They were usually nice people, and mostly nice white people, all with college degrees. But many of them had real fear and loathing of the white working class. My guess is that few of them actually knew any working-class people. They generally regarded the white working class as a cesspool of bigotry and backwardness -- even as they regarded the black and brown working class (none of whom they knew) as victims in need of white liberal attention.

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Source:  https://www.theamericanconservative.com/adam-posen-woke-capitalist-for-social-justice/