Tom Tomorrow nails it

The most alarming thing is how accurate it is. In an article on teaching Critical Race Theory to college kids, the writer has them read a short SF story about how space aliens show up offering to solve all our problems, but only if we let them re-enslave all Black Americans. A vote is taken, and White America agrees to the deal.

As the writer points out, every year in his class the students agree with the premise, and have agreed with it more every year. They know how many racists and powermongers there among us, among their classmates, among their family members. The students believe that if America’s White population were given a second chance to confront the evil of slavery they’d instead embrace it as a beloved long-lost cousin thought dead and buried.

We already engage in a terrifying number of unneeded blood sacrifices– our love of car culture, our acceptance of opiod addiction, our willingness to look the other way as doctors maltreat the obese people , queer people, and minorities, our helplessness in the face of the “warrior cop” mentality. What’s one more?