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Last week, <\/span>Politico<\/span><\/i> reported on a 2,900-page document-dump of chats among young Republican leaders in several states. It turned up shocking use of N-words and rape jokes and gleeful gas-chamber language. It looked bad in print, of course, and it was. But there\u2019s an argument to be made that it\u2019s the new normal, and represents a social force that isn\u2019t quite what it seems. This force is one that we \u2014 especially the media \u2014 would benefit from treating more honestly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The young Republicans aren\u2019t alone. A subsequent <\/span>Politico<\/span><\/i> story<\/span> exposed racial animus in chat by Paul Ingrassia, President Trump\u2019s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel (Ingrassia has since withdrawn). On the other side of the aisle,<\/span> Graham Platner<\/span>, a Left-populist Democrat and former Marine running for the Senate in Maine, has been exposed for having an SS tattoo on his chest, and making obnoxious comments on Reddit a decade ago (blacks \u201cdon\u2019t tip,\u201d rural whites are racist and stupid).<\/span><\/p>\n

We can and should take this stuff less seriously.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, the suggestion is horrifying to the olds \u2014 which includes you, Millennial readers. But we <\/span>don\u2019t<\/span><\/i> live in the Civil Rights Era, or the Jim Crow South, or even within their recent memory, whose traumas and reconstructions created the language regime most of us are used to. America has a legacy of slavery and segregation, but America\u2019s racial demographics and multi-ethnic makeup have also been explosively evolving. Zoomers and Alphas are growing up in a world that\u2019s unrecognizable from the one in which our sensibilities were formed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First, the obvious: The young Republicans are edgelording and joking. Common sense employed by anyone who has ever been in a group chat knows that this is deliberately provocative anti-woke signaling. Chats make dumb jokes; every person among us could be condemned if the contents of their phone were made public by a hostile media outlet. We\u2019ve had too many scandals and cancellations in which normal human behavior \u2014 and humor \u2014 have been taken out of context and made to look terrible to continue like this, tempting as it is to declare some things inexcusable.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s unfortunate that the repressive language policing and obsessive hammering on race of the past 15 years have given rise to this problem, but here we are. I have personally seen this play out in city schools, to distressing effect for a person raised on liberal codes of speech. The progressive Brooklyn private school that my two children attended (they now go to public school) taught anti-racism and social justice, and focused every year anew on slavery and black history. The result of its well-meaning efforts was to create a hysterical focus on naughty race talk among the school\u2019s little-boy population, and to resurrect antique slurs like \u201cmonkey\u201d and \u201cwatermelon eater\u201d for blacks and \u201crice-eater\u201d for Asians. By middle-school standards, the number of slurs found in the 2,900 pages of chat documentation turned over to <\/span>Politico<\/span><\/i> \u2014 a mere 251 \u2014 is <\/span>very<\/span><\/i> low.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the surface, this might seem less forgivable in adults, but a closer look at the dynamic complicates the picture. Our private school had little class diversity but was highly racially diverse, and my son and the children around him played basketball on city playgrounds, took fashion cues from the young black guys who worked in the deli next door, and hung out with racially diverse kids from all over the city. While they were being subjected to a relentless narrative of racial animus and remedial propriety at school, the culture all around them was giving different messages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For one thing, there wasn\u2019t actually much meaningful difference \u2014 or racism \u2014 between the white kids, on one hand, and a \u201cwaysian\u201d (mixed-race white-Asian) private-school kid, or the half-black son of scientists, on the other. All hailed from similar class backgrounds. How does a kid account for that, given that it\u2019s utterly forbidden to say so? You surely can\u2019t ask questions in the designated forum of class discussion. As for the legendary N-word: At school, the word was grounds for expulsion; yet on the street and in the culture the kids consumed and admired, it was an honorific.<\/span><\/p>\n

This confusing state of affairs led to a situation where the N-word became every day\u2019s biggest entertainment and hottest sensation for a certain type of little boy \u2014 the good kind, I\u2019d posit, who thinks for himself and whose masculinity hasn\u2019t been completely crushed by the Nurse Ratched types who lord over much of his life. They talked about who used it, who didn\u2019t, who whispered it to himself in the bathroom, if the \u201cr\u201d was hard or soft, and so on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They wrote it on their scientific calculators by using numbers and letters and turning the calculator upside down. They \u201ctricked\u201d each other into saying it. (Wondering how anyone would do that? Say \u201cMonica\u201d three times fast.) The black kids declared white friends \u201chonorary N-words,\u201d and \u201cgave passes\u201d to use the word, or in some cases <\/span>sold <\/span><\/i>the passes for things like a haul of Halloween candy. I\u2019ve heard of nearly Talmudic debate on what the protocol is for using your pass. (Only with the person who gave the pass? In the hearing of another black person?)<\/span><\/p>\n

I mentioned this state of affairs once to a school administrator, who looked utterly crestfallen and said, <\/span>Well, then nothing we\u2019re doing is working<\/span><\/i>. But he was wrong. The little boys really did take the words seriously \u2014 a mis-deployed N-word is a firebomb of transgression. In the absence of sensible adult guidance on the matter, however, they were taking a complicated, divisive, and scary topic and working it out among themselves, inter-racially and un-fragilely \u2014 with roasting and insults, passes and upside-down calculators.<\/span><\/p>\n

Much of this is the insult-and-razzing culture of boys and men. It is a traditional method of blowing off steam, navigating tension, and building mutual tolerance. And even in its current racially offensive formation, it represents a vastly more diverse and tolerant world than the polite, supposedly race-blind one I grew up in.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There were issues, however. The school prosecuted speech crimes because it had to \u2014 as we all feel we have to, even in situations where the speaker is probably or definitely joking and no one has been \u201charmed.\u201d I felt this undermined the kids\u2019 respect for authority, and confused them about what might actually be hurtful or offensive. It also created an economy for tattling on others\u2019 speech violations by way of prosecuting social grievances, which was vigorously taken up \u2014 almost universally by girls.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The analog to the current adult world is pretty sound. The woke Leftist definition of racism has far outstripped the social realities, and our silent-majority fed-up-ness with the state of affairs has played a large part in the rise of Trump. In America, racism doesn\u2019t exist structurally, as any fair reading of our distributive systems will conclude. It doesn\u2019t exist unconsciously, as we\u2019ve seen with the debunking of the great \u201cunconscious-bias\u201d studies. And though it is often defined as such, it rarely exists openly, overtly, or in a self-identified fashion. How many people are really white nationalists, versus guys who say they\u2019re not a racist but feel threatened by immigration? Bad, maybe, but dogwhistle-bad, and people are tired of having their speech decoded by others and turned against them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In many senses, generations of race-sensitive education have won. The responses to Ingrassia\u2019s offensive comments \u2014 which included the use of an Italian N-word slur \u2014 are telling: his Republican peers censured him. The story on the Republican chats bleeps out the words used (at least, it appears to be doing so; it doesn\u2019t explicitly say so, leaving open the possibility that the transgressive Republicans themselves were writing \u201cn\u2014guh\u201d) but it\u2019s worth noting that even in this bastion of edgelords, we\u2019ve got obedient soft r\u2019s. Platner, meanwhile, says he got the tattoo one evening while drunk in the Marines, had no idea of its SS affiliation, and plans to remove it. <\/span>Fellow Marines have found this credible<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet, we do have problems. Our school, for example, despite its commitment to anti-racism, told a very different racial story in its demographics than it did in its classrooms. Despite the careful, boutique diversity among students, teachers, and administrators, the service personnel were overwhelmingly black and brown, and from the lower economic classes. Such \u201cmembers of our community\u201d \u2014 the bus drivers, the bus monitors, the recess monitors, the guards, the weekend guards, the women who work for the cafeteria service, the cleaners \u2014 were mostly lower-paid contract workers employed by outside organizations, who came and went. What, really, does this teach the kids?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One year as a parent coordinator in charge of collecting money for holiday teacher-and-staff gifts, I tried to include <\/span>everyone<\/span><\/i> who worked at the school. This quickly became difficult. Our school didn\u2019t employ the lower-level workers directly; in some cases, the outside contracting agencies, when contacted, didn\u2019t seem to know or care whom they\u2019d sent to us. And then the more people were included, the smaller the slices of parent-giving pie became. Suddenly our inclusive rhetoric changed to pious suggestions that we really should be offering larger gifts \u201cfor our teachers.\u201d The next year, the initiative was dropped.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Generations of race-sensitive education have done absolutely nothing to change the second-class treatment of less-paid workers. And credible cases have been made, most notably by sociologist Musa al-Gharbi in his brilliant book, <\/span>We Have Never Been Woke<\/span><\/i>, published last year, that accusations of \u201cracism\u201d are more of a cudgel for in-group status warfare, than they are a route to equality. Woke Leftist rhetoric, in al-Gharbi\u2019s telling, is little more than the shameless scramble of elites to cloak themselves in virtue while pursuing personal wealth and power, a process that allows them to fool themselves about the economic circumstances of the mostly black and brown people whose underpaid labor they\u2019re benefiting from, one DoorDash order at at time.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it\u2019s no surprise that some conservative figures, now in power, are picking up the cudgel and using it: firing staffers for chats, rescinding jobs, and<\/span> hand-wringing in op-eds<\/span>. What better way to secure our in-group status than to declare our worth in the same old lingua franca of the elite? What better way to dispatch our enemies than to make these popular, incendiary, and high-traffic allegations? Peter Giunta, a now-disgraced figure who was formerly the chair of the New York State Young Republicans organization, claims that his chats were released as part of a \u201ccoordinated character assassination\u201d by a fellow Republican. All the dirt on Platner was dug up by opposition research. This is corrupt, and it\u2019s time to end it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many Americans of the populist, Trumpian bent identify much more with the economically disadvantaged contract worker than they do with the virtue-pushing elites. They understand that all the politically correct language in the world is meaningless when it\u2019s papering over the ugly divide between the private-school parents and the people who drive their kids\u2019 buses. In the rowdy online forums, and among ordinary people confronting street-level conflicts between blacks and whites, people are working it out for themselves, or trying to. If we don\u2019t like each other, why? If someone is to blame for our misfortune, who? If this kind of speech makes elites uncomfortable, that just might mean it\u2019s working.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To \u201callow\u201d this kind of speech, of course, raises the specter of a world where we haven\u2019t taken into account the American legacy of slavery, or where open racial hatred is encouraged. This is legitimately alarming and extremely undesirable. However, by <\/span>not<\/span><\/i> allowing it in the current heavy-handed and distorted fashion, we are draining education and the media of their moral authority, shutting off healthy avenues of negotiation, and empowering legitimately unsavory figures like Ingrassia. The only thing scarier than realizing \u2014 to put it in middle-school parlance \u2014 that much so-called forbidden speech \u201cis not that deep,\u201d is not realizing it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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