Participating in a race war makes you a loser, according to game theory

Published May 6, 2025 2:41pm ET



The online race war has made a $1 million escalation. And now, some on the Right argue that they should start to play the worst of the racial-essentialist Left’s game.

After 17-year old Karmelo Anthony was charged with murder for stabbing a fellow Texas student to death at a high school track meet, a mob rallied around Anthony to donate more than half a million dollars to his GiveSendGo, not because supporters maintain Anthony is innocent but rather in celebration that the victim, the late Austin Metcalf, was white.

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