Yglesias doesn’t say it as bluntly as my headline does but that is the gist of what he’s saying here. It appears to be part of a series he’s calling “Common Sense Manifesto.”
Everyone is exhausted by the Woke Wars, nobody on the left seems to even know what they want to say about racial justice at this point, and nobody in the center wants to poke the bear. Corporate America is sloughing off its DEI programs, and America’s colleges and universities seem poised to face a slew of civil rights litigation alleging anti-white or anti-Asian discrimination. And yet, the I think an answer is staring us in the face in the form of a cliché that has, unfortunately, been superficially embraced by the right.
…we should, in fact, judge people by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin, rejecting discrimination and racial profiling…
