{"id":13248,"date":"2021-04-26T06:39:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T13:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13248"},"modified":"2021-04-26T06:41:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T13:41:24","slug":"the-new-racism-is-the-old-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-new-racism-is-the-old-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Racism Is the Old Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will be the future of the mass hysteria spawned last summer? No one knows.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But its destination, if unchecked, will be ethnic tensions and sectarian strife at best akin to those in Brazil and India\u2014or at worst Lebanon, Syria, and Rwanda.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until just a few years ago, racial differences, according to polls, were more or less receding. Intermarriage between racial groups is at historic highs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But by 2014-2015, with the birth of Black Lives Matter, its courting by the Obama Administration, and the emergence of the electronic social media mob and cancel culture, such progress seems to have ended. We have&nbsp;<em>ceased<\/em>&nbsp;seeing race as increasingly incidental, rather than essential to who we are.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/04\/25\/the-new-antiracism-is-the-old-racism\/\">READ MORE&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness What will be the future of the mass hysteria spawned last summer? No one knows.&nbsp; But its destination, if unchecked, will be ethnic tensions and sectarian strife at best akin to those in Brazil and India\u2014or at worst Lebanon, Syria, and Rwanda.&nbsp; Until just a few years ago, racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3rG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8124,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/8124\/","url_meta":{"origin":13248,"position":0},"title":"The Progressive Racial Narrative and Its Beneficiaries","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Debunking the lies about race in America. by Bruce S. 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