the last refuge of the scoundrel is whatever can be repackaged and sold for a dollar
(currently drunk)
Which is, largely, in this case, anti-racism, no? Businesses tossing up a few words about BLM. Shrink that down to the individual size, and we have people merely trying to survive socially - nothing to hold against anyone.
Not trying to work against you - I don't seem to oppose your spirit. In fact, while I am still in the process of understanding your "spirit", I think I can identify with you in very important ways.
@vimothy, do you mean, the last refuge,
today? or the last refuge,
period?
If you mean the former: Then it seems we are playing along with meta-narratives, and something about our current state of woke capitalism marks an ultimate stage, an ultimate ideological playing field for neoliberal players to appeal to and capitalize from. Please, feel free to engage in pedantry with me. This would mean that if you could master the language/sensibility/aesthetics of wokeness, you've more or less won.
If you mean the latter: then it seems we are at one stage in an infinite series of stages, every revolution shifting the compost bin such that different things carry different values upon every shift. If anti-racism is the current last refuge for the scoundrel, what might the next be? What was the previous? I don't mean these as purely rhetorical questions, but I'm also not trying to press an answer out of you.
edit: that is, in as far as normative morality develops, there is at all times a trend to be ascertained. At this time, it is anti-racism. That is not to say that all anti-racism is trend-appealing, but that the
key trend-appealing is anti-racism. I think everything I am arguing can be argued from a position of anti-bigotry, most generally, because that is a position I readily take.