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Quest . (2021) 34.4 DOI 10. 51845/34 .4.13  \nAcademic Racism  \nWilliam L. Howard  \n  to be choked with hate  \nMay well be of all evil chances chief.  \n  An intellectual hatred is the worst,  \nSo let her think opinions are accursed.  \n—William Butler Yeats,“A Prayer for My Daughter”  \nYeats might not comprehend the details of American politics today, but he would certainly recognize the political frame of mind. He witnessed the Easter Uprising and Irish “troubles” of his own time. He was in love with a political activist and thought her susceptibility to political hatred a tragic waste. However different our politics from his, he would recognize that the fuel that drives each is ideological hatred.  \nThe French philosopher Jacques Ellul defines ideology as “the popularized sentimental degeneration of a political doctrine or worldview” and argues that it only dimly reflects what were once substantial principles.1 In the United States, words like “hate,” “racism,” and “white supremacy,” routinely used by  \n“the woke,” are resuscitated and rebranded, but disembodied. That their referents have little resemblance to the referents of the same words in earlier times is called evidence of the acumen of the intellectual counterfeiters who redefine them. In fact, it is evidence that the ideology of the woke is “untouched” by reality, as Hannah Arendt described twentieth century totalitarianism. Ideology, she argued,“serves to emancipate thought from experience and reality.”2  \nThe newly branded version of “racism,” for example, being far removed from actuality, begs for a qualifying modifier. It can be called “academic  \n1 Jacques Ellul, Jesus and Marx: From Gospel to Ideology (Eugene, OR: WIPF and Stock, 1988), 1, 4.  \n2 Hannah Arendt,“Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government,” in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, and Criticism ed. Irving Howe, 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982), 415- 17. From Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2nd ed. (World Publishing, 1958) .  \nWilliam L. Howard is Professor of English (ret.), Chicago State University.  \nracism,” the object of a futile search by the intellectual class for conditions today that might make fighting racism heroic and relevant again. It is an ideology that is not only false but sinister. Unfortunately, ideological falsehoods are more likely to empower than invalidate, as Nazism and Communism proved. Likewise, academic racism has accumulated more power than its feeble rationale merits, and that power fuels the political enmity that threatens this country. The accusation of racism, with little evidence to back the charge up, is a weapon with the power to intimidate and deceive millions. The woke have flipped the script. They have employed their own racism to demean tens of millions of white people and consign them to a social perdition based on race and ethnic history.  \nAcademic racism is an intellectualized and race-based ideology of hatred fostered and propagated in classrooms and newsrooms. This is not Bull Connor’s racism. It is worse. Rather than transparent, unadorned, visceral hatred, it consists of a maze of theory that conceals visceral hatred under a veneer of intellectualism and enlightenment. Its object is to attain political power. Now that the woke have attained that power, they intend, with the leadership of the President of the United States, to institutionalize their own racism. The woke mind could be the subject of an engrossing psychiatric study of projection.  \nThose who authorize themselves to accuse others of racism are the racists themselves.  \nThese racists do not wear white hoods, police blue, or MAGA hats. They are college educated and conformed to an admixture of cultural Marxism and racial mythologies like critical race theory that have arisen from a desire to discredit Western culture. The farther away from past abuses such as slavery and Jim Crow this country moves, the farther from reality academic theorists’con","cbCaihqhgheaePt6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihqhgheaePt6","pdf",215010,"English","# Academic Racism\n## Ideology, rebranding, and historical disconnection\n## “Woke” ideology and political power\n## Academic institutions and ideological conformity","[{\"question\":\"How does the author define the ideological mechanism behind contemporary “racism”?\",\"answer\":\"The author says ideology rebrands political doctrines and detaches key terms from their historical meanings, so language is used in a disembodied way rather than grounded in reality.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the author claim academic racism accomplishes politically?\",\"answer\":\"The text argues that academic racism is an intellectualized, race-based ideology of hatred that aims to achieve political power and institutionalize its own stance after attaining influence.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author argue students and institutions become effective channels for the ideology?\",\"answer\":\"The author claims universities redefine antiracism, expand its scope, suppress dissent, and train students to adopt conclusions shaped by confirming lenses that also blind them to their movement’s own racism.\"}]","Academic Racism - Academic article - William L. 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