Selling Social Justice: Why the Ruling Class Loves Antiracism

The national racial reckoning that began in 2020 promised to radically restructure American society from the bottom up. But five years on, it has mainly served to strengthen the ruling class and deliver the rich an opportunity to rehabilitate a profoundly unequal economic order at a moment when the stability of the system and the public's trust in it are deteriorating.



Corporations have used antiracism to consolidate their political power and evade government regulation. Employers have surve...