Meet the new racism, same as the old racism

Published August 24, 2022 12:00am ET



The past few weeks have offered us an excellent snapshot of what the Left’s idea of “equity” looks like in practice.

The Minneapolis public school district reached an agreement with the local teachers union to fire white teachers first, regardless of their seniority or how long they’ve worked for the district, to protect the jobs of nonwhite educators. A private housing co-op near the University of California, Berkeley banned white visitors and tenants unless other residents in the home grant them permission to be there. And Harvard University is preparing to make the case before the Supreme Court that it has the right and responsibility to deny admission to Asian American applicants simply because they are Asian American.

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