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Good piece, but amazing we still have to have the argument that racial discrimination in housing and employment is still a thing. Racial steering by real estate agents has been "rediscovered" every decade or so since I was in elementary school in the 70s. https://nyti.ms/2qzUY4w
The first thing Reagan era conservatives understood was gutting enforcement of anti-discrimination law. The force of repetition, "it's just the way things are," combined with the punitive turn ("individual responsibility"), and ever more latitude for market actors did the rest...
..leaving those who make the case for on-going relevance of racial discrimination to our politics and society sounding like boring broken records, or hysterics. And it doesn't help when some on the left suggest that anti-discrimination law is basically a neoliberal plot.
That many people can get exercised about excessively "woke" anti-racism, and polarizing cancel culture, but read about this and basically go "ho-hum," is yet another indicator of how across the board decay of institutional fairness has addled all our brains..
