The subtitle is Gender, Race and Identity and the author is Douglas Murray (2019).
“After slaying the dragon the brave warrior finds himself
stalking the land looking for still more glorious fights. He needs his dragons. Eventually, after tiring himself out in the
pursuit of ever-smaller dragons he may eventually even be found swinging
his sword at thin air, imagining it to contain dragons.”
Regardless of your politics, I think the author does a remarkable job of making sense of where we are. The identity politics of today are not about equality, as MLK fought for in his time, but about a redistribution of power. And when you recognize that, you realize just how disingenuous the loudest voices are.
To summarize it, I relate a dictum of Daniel Patrick Moynihan – claims of human rights violations happen in exactly inverse proportion to the numbers of human rights violations in a country. If this country really is as fascist, racist, homophobic and sexist as those waiving their fingers allege, the luxury of being so foolish so often and so loud would not exist.
