Perhaps white people aren’t the only ones put off by opportunists taking the helm of race activism to facilitate lunacy. Legitimate concerns about police brutality, criminal justice reform and prejudice have been bandaged over with naive interventions such as decriminalizing petty theft and abolishing the police. To no one’s surprise, this has resulted in more crime and violence and the worsening of racial tensions.

These negative sentiments extend to the classroom, as well. Regardless of race, parents don’t appreciate K-12 educators using children as tokens, embedding in white and biracial kids “anti-racist” ideas about being inherently racist, or teaching minority children that skin colour foretells inescapable oppression and victimization.

Racial minorities are no different from other human beings, in that we do not appreciate being spoken for or told how to think. The fetishization of identity politics is a superficial solution that rewards its believers with self-righteousness but won’t actually eradicate racism. I hear frequently from non-white individuals in my audience who do not believe their race is the most important thing about them, who are tired of being lectured by woke white people.