Of course, the usual suspects will have a hard time recognizing themselves in these tenets when spelled out. However, they are the fish who don’t know they’re wet. They’ve never known anything but those tenets, and thus see them as a normal way of being. They don’t know that these tenets are “a thing.”

What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker – as in melodramatic claims of injury at seeing the N-word written “n*****” on a test, or hearing a Mandarin expression that sounds like the N-word, and calling it trauma. Or the whole idea that a black person living today is the vessel of a “trauma” inflicted on black people over multiple past generations.

Always trust your feelings – as in the watchcry that impact trumps intent, such that if a black person feels something said or done as racist, then it simply is, and no questions can be morally asked, because black people’s feelings are in themselves a kind of truth (an outgrowth from the Critical Race Theory we are supposedly so remiss in discussing these days).

Life is a battle between good people and bad people – as in that America is full of “racists,” such as white people menacingly united in preserving their “white” interests (á la rhetoric Robin DiAngelo is fond of), such that Ta-Nehisi Coates watched the firefighters killed on 9/11 and found himself numb to the suffering of people whose type otherwise could have been responsible for “shattering” his black body.