The Blue State Conservative If you’ve ever seen The Princess Bride, there is a scene where a desperate Prince Humperdinck rushes down to Westley in the pit of despair and maxes out the life-sucking machine. It is an ostensible act of murderous outrage rooted in frustration and failure to control a false narrative.
Just as Humperdinck wanted to ignore reality and have Buttercup fall in love with him (and out of love with Westley), so too have acolytes of Critical Race Theory escalated their religious zealotry surrounding America’s alleged systemic racism in the midst of futile efforts of coerced real-time revisionism. They suppress the reality of unparalleled black freedom, black opportunity, and black success in the United States in favor of promulgating hatred, division, and lies. Each new effort is more unhinged than before.
This past weekend, one of the most notable names in “anti-racist” race hustling, Ibram X. Kendi (nee Henry Rogers), unironically tweeted out the since-deleted statement…
