Social justice for those with privileges

In the article The Woke Meritocracy, Blake Smith (Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago) reflects on the paradoxes of those privilege college students who victimize themselves to meet the expectations of the new "radicals" on campus, including some of their professors. Smith writes in The Tablet: "What is new about education’s turn to woke identity politics is not the fact that administrators and faculty are influencing students’ sense of self, but rather the sort of values that the new ideal personality is supposed to uphold. The contemporary ideal, increasingly, is no longer someone so charmingly personable that others forget he is in fact a ruthless competitor, but a person who so convincingly narrates her having overcome some kind of social injustice that others forget she is in fact a beneficiary of systems of privilege." Read the full article by clicking here.