David Horowitz on systemic racism

From Mark Perry.

"David Horowitz’s essay “Fighting Words” featured today on the Power Line Blog:

“Systemic racism” is an assertion made reflexively by Democrats that is never accompanied by evidence. For good reason. Systemic racism has been outlawed in America since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If there were actual instances of systemic racism in 2020, there would be lawsuits – plenty of them. Even making the racist assumption, which the Identity Politics crowd does make, that all white people are white supremacists by dint of their skin color, there are tens of thousands of black lawyers, prosecutors, district attorneys, attorneys general, and elected officials who would be filing lawsuits over a practice that is illegal. You never hear of massive lawsuits over systemic racism, because “systemic racism” is a myth. The myth lives because it is an indispensable weapon wielded by Democrats to advance their anti-democratic agendas and quests for power.

Corollary: “Systemic labor market sexism” is an assertion made reflexively by Democrats that is never accompanied by evidence (e.g., President Obama’s four-Pinocchio claim in a 2012 campaign ad that “women being paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men isn’t just unfair, it hurts families”). For good reason. Systemic labor market sexism has been outlawed in America since the Equal Pay Act of 1963. If there were actual instances of systemic labor market sexism in 2020, there would be lawsuits – plenty of them. Even making the sexist assumption, which the Identity Politics crowd does make, that thousands of employers are sexist, there are hundreds of thousands of female lawyers, prosecutors, district attorneys, attorneys general, and elected officials who would be filing lawsuits over a practice that is illegal. You never hear of massive lawsuits over systemic labor market sexism, because “systemic labor market sexism” is a myth. The myth lives because it is an indispensable weapon wielded by Democrats to advance their anti-democratic agendas and quests for power."