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Liberals' progressive ideals are nothing more than the return to de-civilization. After six decades of affirmative action, DEI mandates, and racial essentialism, America is suffering from a profound tribal fatigue.

What began as an effort to address historical wrongs has hardened into a system that treats race as the defining feature of human identity rather than a superficial trait.

Unlike America’s strategic rivals in China and Russia, which reject racial essentialism as a threat to social order, the United States and much of the West have embraced it. The results mirror patterns seen in Rwanda, parts of Nigeria, and the Balkans—places where elevating group identity over shared citizenship produced conflict. Human nature favors affinity; people tend to cluster with those who share language, culture, and background. Healthy societies channel this instinct through acculturation and integration. Current policies do the opposite, celebrating separatism and grievance.

• Belfast, a Somali immigrant attempted a beheading.
• United States, the subway murder of Arania Zarutska was followed by bystanders walking past her body while the assailant reportedly muttered a racial remark about killing “the white” victim.
• Henry Norwok, who bled to death as police hesitated after his assailant falsely claimed racism. T

These events are not isolated anomalies; they reflect a broader pattern in which identity politics distorts judgment and erodes trust.

“Whiteness” as an inherent problem: public rhetoric has accelerated the damage. Some politicians cannot discuss policy without framing their words in white hatred.  

Online spaces amplify the toxicity, with AI-generated content glorifying perpetrators in certain cases while vilifying victims.

The shift from affirmative action’s narrower focus to expansive DEI has widened the victim class to include virtually anyone deemed non-white—wealthy immigrants from India or Brazil included. This framework assumes perpetual grievance against a monolithic “white establishment,” regardless of individual achievement or immigrant status.

Data contradicts the narrative. Interracial crime statistics show marked asymmetries: in categories such as murder, assault, and rape, non-white perpetrators offend against white victims at rates many times higher than the reverse, sometimes by factors of six to fifty depending on the offense.

The raw numbers of potential victims and offenders make systemic white racism an implausible explanation. America is now three generations removed from Jim Crow in the South and never had it in the North. Yet the language of perpetual victimhood persists because it delivers tangible advantages in admissions, hiring, promotions, and legal leniency.

High-profile hoaxes illustrate the incentive structure.

Jussie Smollett’s staged attack, the fabricated “hands up, don’t shoot” account in the Michael Brown case, the Duke Lacrosse scandal, and earlier episodes involving Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley all followed the same script: claim racial victimization, rally sympathy, and extract concessions.

When consequences are softened by identity considerations, accountability erodes. Human nature predicts the outcome—contempt for those offering unearned preferences, and increased misconduct among those who sense diminished scrutiny.

Mass immigration has compounded the strain.  Policymakers on both sides assumed this influx would supply labor and eventually integrate. Instead, it has imported tribal loyalties without the strong melting-pot pressures of earlier eras. Economically, the premise that whites occupy the top of a racial hierarchy also collapses: several Asian, Indian, Arab, and other non-white groups have higher median incomes.

The largest number of Americans receiving poverty assistance are white, as seen in the neglect of communities like East Palestine, Ohio, forgotten by the Biden administration because they were a poor white community.

America still has time to reject this de-civilizational path. Restoring color-blind merit, genuine assimilation, and equal accountability under the law offers the only proven alternative to the rising tensions now visible on streets and campuses, and in public discourse.

The real question is, who is gaining by the de-civilization of America through tribalism?

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