"Your ancestors weren't villains," the meme declares. "Don't apologize for them to people who hate you."
Conor Friedersdorf points out that your ancestors probably were neither villains nor heroes, and that it doesn't matter. "You get credit or blame for what you do, not what others did before you were born."
Identity politics lost the election: The Orange Man motivated a multi-ethnic coalition to defeat the Woman of Color.
Businesses have been moving away from DEI (Diversity Equity Inclusion) initiatives for awhile now. The federal government will be dumping DEI. What about schools?
There will be lots of resistance -- or Resistance -- to abandoning wokeish ideas, such as "white supremacy" as the explanation for the achievement gap, and the importance of tallying and employing victimhood points ("intersectionalism"). On the flip side, I think nearly everyone hates land acknowledgements and thinks "settler colonialism" is stupid.
In very blue California, where I live, schools must offer ethnic studies classes by next fall. It will be a graduation requirement for the Class of 2030. But districts can choose what "ethnic studies" means, and some have chosen a very left-wing curriculum that was vetoed by the governor. Others will go with the approved curriculum, which isn't quite as anti-capitalist or anti-semitic. And some will find alternatives that are more focused on history, less on politics.
The Independent Institute's Center on Educational Excellence is offering a free Comparative Cultures curriculum to teachers who want to a less ideological approach that explores different perspectives.
The curriculum recognizes America's "sordid past" and America's ideals, said Walter Myers III of the Discovery Institute.