One of the depressing features of modern life – sigh, so many to choose from – is the Race Relations Industry.

Depressing not because there are no problems with ‘racial’ discrimination. But because the policy area has been hijacked by progressives who define the ishoos so that their view of what must be done (and only their view of what must be done) prevails – and merits state intervention via heavy taxpayers money paid to them and their friends.

A vital sub-plot in all this is the idea that it is not the weight of reasoned argument which counts, but rather the intensity of one’s emotions. The more angry and passionate, the more authentic and legitimate.

This excellent Power Line post quoting Dafydd ab Hugh sums it up:

To me, one of the greatest crimes of liberalism is that it has "normalized" Rage Syndrome: black rage, lower-class (income) rage, feminist rage, road rage. The chimera of authenticity is invoked to justify any rage-response that benefits liberal fascism. From Ginsberg’s "Howl," to Spike Lee’s Joint, to Michael Moore’s rage of the overfed, pampered, and perpetually aggrieved, mindless fury is dubbed the most authentic of all emotions, thus unassailable and uncritiqueable. Rage is beyond good and evil… it simply IS, and is its own justification and excuse.

But what if things started to change?

What if public authorities invested instead in people who take a more balanced, ‘conservative’ view of the best way forward? People who believe in discipline, hard work and (lordy) the value of a classical education?

Does it start here?