‘Anti-Racism’ Cult Takes Out Black ProfVillanova's Vincent Lloyd is a black man of the Left -- but was persecuted by a black radical for being anti-black
Rod Dreher
Feb 10, 2023
There are many, many non-black people who recognize the Cult of Anti-Racism as something abusive and ugly, but who don't dare to speak out against it out of fear. Now the cultists have professionally brutalized a left-wing black professor, Villanova's Vincent Lloyd (above, giving a lecture at Fuller Theological Seminary), who had the poor judgment to think he had been hired by a summer program to teach, not indoctrinate. In a blockbuster essay in Compact, Lloyd tells his story. Here's how it begins:
On the sunny first day of seminar, I sat at the end of a pair of picnic tables with nervous, excited 17-year-olds. Twelve high-school students had been chosen by the Telluride Association through a rigorous application process—the acceptance rate is reportedly around 3 percent—to spend six weeks together taking a college-level course, all expenses paid.
The group reminded me of the heroes of the Mysterious Benedict Society books I was reading to my daughter: Each teenager, brought together for a common project, had some extraordinary ability and some quirk. One girl from California spoke and thought at machine-gun speed and started collecting pet snails during the pandemic; now she had more than 100. A girl from a provincial school in China had never traveled to the United States but had mastered un-accented English and was in love with E.M. Forster. In addition to the seminar, the students practiced democratic self-governance: They lived together and set their own rules. Those first few days, the students were exactly what you would expect, at turns bubbly and reserved, all of them curious, playful, figuring out how to relate to each other and to the seminar texts.
Four weeks later, I again sat in front of the gathered students. Now, their faces were cold, their eyes down. Since the first week, I had not spotted one smile. Their number was reduced by two: The previous week, they had voted two classmates out of the house. And I was next.
“I was guilty of countless microaggressions.”
Each student read from a prepared statement about how the seminar perpetuated anti-black violence in its content and form, how the black students had been harmed, how I was guilty of countless microaggressions, including through my body language, and how students didn’t feel safe because I didn’t immediately correct views that failed to treat anti-blackness as the cause of all the world’s ills.
This might be just another lament about “woke” campus culture, and the loss of traditional educational virtues. But the seminar topic was “Race and the Limits of Law in America.” Four of the 6 weeks were focused on anti-black racism (the other two were on anti-immigrant and anti-indigenous racism). I am a black professor, I directed my university’s black-studies program, I lead anti-racism and transformative-justice workshops, and I have published books on anti-black racism and prison abolition. I live in a predominantly black neighborhood of Philadelphia, my daughter went to an Afrocentric school, and I am on the board of our local black cultural organization.
Like others on the left, I had been dismissive of criticisms of the current discourse on race in the United States. But now my thoughts turned to that moment in the 1970s when leftist organizations imploded, the need to match and raise the militancy of one’s comrades leading to a toxic culture filled with dogmatism and disillusion. How did this happen to a group of bright-eyed high school students?
You've got to read the whole thing! It is jaw-dropping in how openly cult-like it is. All of it. Literally. The details will blow your mind. And look, this is one more verification of the things that emigres fleeing Communism told me for Live Not By Lies: that wokeness is fundamentally totalitarian, and America is surrendering to it blindly.
Christopher Rufo reports on how the cult manifests in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs at the University of South Florida. That's right: Florida taxpayers are paying these political cultists to indoctrinate students with racial hatred and intolerance. Excerpt:
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Source:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/anti-racism-cult-takes-out-black-prof/
