Staff at the liberal Slate website have voted to strike, largely over a right-to-work issue with employee contracts.
I’m sure you’re already in a panic. After all, what will we do without headlines such as “The Alarming Paternalism of Today’s Queer Agenda: What the anti-pornography campaign of 1980s radical feminism can teach us about queer politics today”?
But aside from the disagreement over mandatory union dues for nonmembers, this potential strike is a joyous reminder of the Left’s self-defeating obsession with race and gender.
Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that Slate employees voted 52 to one for a possible strike, in part because they wanted “stronger diversity policies” and a commitment from management that they “consider a diverse mix of candidates for open positions.”
Slate’s sole purpose, at least in recent years, is to advocate for unchecked social and economic dominance by anyone whose group is perceived to have been a victim of “privilege”: women, gays, blacks, transsexuals, and on and on. It is thus ironic, but totally expected, that the same approach would lead the publication to start eating its own arm.
When your publication’s entire existence is based on demanding that the world organize itself around “privilege” and victimhood, it’s natural that the same concepts would inevitably apply within the newsroom, to the point that Slate might have to cease publishing stories about those same tiresome ideas.
It’s the same thing happening on college campuses. Students are emboldened to see the world through racial lenses and gender grievances. For example, when a faculty member questioned the purpose of “racial equity” courses at Duke University Divinity School last year, one of the nation’s preeminent theologians had to be fired. As a result, the institution and its prestige suffered, and students paying high tuition for their education now get considerably less for their money.
This is what’s actively ending Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 run before it’s even started. It’s why people stopped reading the essentially defunct Mic, a website dedicated to the “social justice” movement. And now Slate is seeing it happen in its own newsroom.
