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 ">https://nyti.ms/2qzUY4w&q...

The first thing Reagan era conservatives understood was gutting enforcement of anti-discrimination law. The force of repetition, "it& #39;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& #39;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..