Very well may be true:
The Left/liberal/progressive side engages in cant about “diversity”, when we all know they mean a very precise sort of diversity and a very particular type of background when they talk about “background.” But the Right/conservative side’s emphasis on merit and colorblindness strikes me as consciously blind to the fact that these institutions were always about shaping and grooming the elite and engaged in the game of reflecting and determining the American upper class. The Right/conservative project would abolish Harvard as we know it on a far deeper level than the Left/liberal/progressive posturing cultural radicalism, which at the end of the day has no problem bowing before neoliberal capital so long as lexical modifications are made.I'd go even deeper into the subtext. Liberal/left/progressive side engages in a big lie: they expound values like tolerance, diversity, egalitarianism as a salve to entrench their own power in institutions, lifestyles, and careers and the Right/conservative side is annoyed and sickened by it and merely wants to poke them in the eye using whatever blunt tools they can.
So who is more wrong?
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