I was talking with my step-brother (far-left tech IPO in NYC) the other day about cooking and something he mentioned caught me by surprise. He was talking about cooking and how this new channel had picked up a bunch of chefs who were racially discriminated against by Delish? and we’re getting paid far less than their peers. So they switched over and made their own program that had been doing well. The baseline of this is of course that is good because if they can do better elsewhere they should. However what struck me as odd is that the accused channel is far left, in fact it would be hard to find any large cooking channel that isn’t pro whatever wokeness is currently on display.
This discussion triggered a realization in the mentality of the far-left, their projection on who they view as lessers (conservatives) is not directed by the actions of conservatives but by the actions of who they consider similar. So if a far left supporting business is caught having rampant racism or sexism their immediate reaction is how much worse conservatives must be. This is amplified by the fact that liberals often do not understand why conservatives value what they value, they only understand what they are told they value by other liberals.
Ed Dwight washed out of astronaut training in the early 60s, and the military tried to railroad Chuck Yeager for it. Had Yeager not gone way above and beyond what he did for pretty much anyone else trying to help him, they might have succeeded.
It's always been the way it is now: if a White doesn't like the "content of character" of a non-White it's because of secret racism. And how do you prove you aren't a secret racist? About the only way you can do it is to assume a priori that all races are the same, because any observable difference could be the result of secret racism. Then you use statistics to determine whether or not someone treats different races differently in a statistically significant way. Which could also be because there are statistical differences between races, but because we've declared a priori that can't happen, it must be due to secret racism.
Enter the Disparate Impact Hypothesis, the prevailing dogma of American race relations since the Civil Rights Act and the core premise that underlies modern conceptions that "structural racism" is the cause of discrepancies in outcome between racial groups.
As Jordan Peterson likes to say "it couldn't be any other way than how it is".
But of course they only apply it one way.
The NBA is 85-90% black simply because black people are better at basketball.
Hockey is 85-90% white because of systemic racism.
I've actually heard them try to blame systemic racism for basketball too. "They're too poor to play anything else. All you need is a ball; and all the public parks have courts where they can play for free".