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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Writing at the Los Angeles Times, Gustavo Arellano considers the fear expressed by Elon Muxk, Donald Trump, and their dupes, symps, and fellow travelers that (my words, not his) DEI is somehow reverse discrimination against white men and hears a rhyme from the past:

White men have fretted about their place in a changing America ever since Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1784 that a divine “revolution of the wheel of fortune” was “probable” against white people for their embrace of slavery. Fear of the sunset of white men has fueled lynchings, legal segregation, laws against immigration legal and not, lawsuits against affirmative action and so much more.

In this time in which bigots and racists seem emboldened, I commend his entire piece to your attention.

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*Mark Twain.

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