My university sacrificed ideas for ideology, so today I quit
Knowing very little about the US educational system, I wonder if this is somehow a symptom of unresolved trauma of the historical crimes against African slaves.<p>They were enslaved then, many died an awful death, then technically freed, but still living as an underclass for decades, arguably still today. It never ceases to amaze me how many societal statistics in the US - education levels, wealth, teenage pregnancies, crime and incarceration rates - are explained by something as superficial as skin colour.<p>So you see this every day, poor neighbourhoods are full of Black people, and you know why they are there - because White people enslaved them, brought them to America, then gave them a very sub-standard freedom. There is a hypocritical narrative of how we&#x27;re all equal, but we&#x27;re not (affirmative action?), but we ought to be, but really you know the society is so unequal, based on race. So what do you do?<p>Most people cannot do anything of major practical impact. Maybe there are charities you can donate to or work with. Maybe you can vote for the right political candidates - but that&#x27;s so indirect and diluted, it doesn&#x27;t feel real.<p>So the least you can do is be very vocal about how guilty and outraged you feel about the whole situation. It probably feels very genuine, it may be 100% genuine, just not actually productive. You put the sticky tape on the crack in the wall so it looks less bad.<p>I don&#x27;t know how that massive historical injustice can be fixed, but I think it should. I don&#x27;t think Woke inc. is doing anything productive towards that though, and I understand the OP&#x27;s frustration. But that&#x27;s my best guess as to what the root cause is.<p>I hope none of this comes as disrespectful to Black people. My point is they were very badly mistreated, and the consequences of that last until today too, not to posit that one race is better than another.<p>Based on 2 trips to America, some reading and some very unwoke thinking. But I care about it a lot, not just for its own sake, but also as Woke is being exported, with some success, as the new prevailing ideology to shape the Western world.