Another very weird liberal idea I am seeing lately pretty frequently is the notion that anyone who says “traditional architecture is good” or “we should build better buildings that last without all the shiny tech that breaks down” is a secret closet racist and Nazi.

It’s similar I guess to the idea that it’s racist to not want to outsource all manufacturing to China. It emerges from the same crumbling set of interlinking ideologies. Part of it is just cognitive dissonance and intellectual laziness, too. It’s easier not to think and just call everyone with a different idea “racist” and so-called woke capital supports this utterly.

Another part is the neoliberal mindset has truly infected everything, so these people deeply believe that anything from the past at all is racist, no matter what it is — meanwhile, they are content to ignore actual racism.