I was published in issue no. 149 of Le Québécois Libre with an article titled “Racism, Old and New.”
I examine affirmative-action policies that restrict opportunities by race and the political assumption that discrimination counts as racism only when its victim is non-white. I argue that replacing one form of racial preference with another does not produce equality—it preserves racial classification and resentment.
I also consider how political correctness can encourage people to interpret ordinary setbacks as racial persecution while discouraging open discussion of racism within non-Western societies. A society becomes less racist by treating people as individuals, not by granting or withholding opportunities according to ancestry.