Meanwhile, in academia:

After all, as this Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge notices, South Asians like her win just as many Olympic running medals as people of sub-Saharan descent. https://t.co/UaINXN7Psd

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) August 23, 2026

To say nothing of differing susceptibility to various diseases, blood and organ donation, and numerous medical treatments.

And that’s before we get to anything too swoon-inducing.

Dr Gopal is currently restricting replies to those who already agree with her, while calling – well, pretty much everyone – “dumb” and “racist.”

Sharp-eyed readers will note that Dr Gopal didn’t check her own very public assertion for basic grammatical errors, possibly on account of being far too busy deleting her own earlier pronouncements. Among which, “White lives don’t matter,” and, inevitably, this:

Abolish whiteness

— Priyamvada Gopal © (@PriyamvadaGopal) June 23, 2020

She’s an educator, you know.

Dr Gopal and her strange mental adventures have entertained us before, with her somewhat ambitious redefinition of violence so as to include anything with which she disagrees, and her belief that being referred to as “madam” by a college porter is racist, proof of “racial profiling,” and a basis for a lengthy and very public persecution drama.

Further to recent rumblings in the comments, I bring scenes of an immensely radical gardening project conjured into being in June 2020 by Seattle’s progressive-activist community:

https://t.co/ifrtXG4r0V pic.twitter.com/SVoqRie115

— President Dr RollerGator MVIP PhD (@drrollergator) August 13, 2026

More scenes of radical signage can be had here.

Footage of said radicalism, this wokeness that didn’t happen, is also available:

Don’t forget when the main character of the CHAZ entered pic.twitter.com/4Og0gCBGAg

— Skipbeat (@Skipxbeat) August 14, 2026

I know. You may want a moment to steady yourselves. What with all that deep political heft.

And because it bears repeating:

“As an Academic, I can pretend not to understand things at a level you cannot even imagine…” https://t.co/kQvZZeN3E4 pic.twitter.com/hnX7uUdqJW

— Conan, Summer Aesthete (@conan_esq) August 13, 2026

Readers who browse the comments of this blog – and by God, you should – will recall that Martha Lincoln, our associate professor, our fearless anthropologist – the one shutting down replies and retreating from any risk of correction – frames The Atlantic as right-wing.

For readers unfamiliar with this supposedly right-wing publication, allow me to share with you a few samples of its contents:

I could of course go on, but we’d be here all day.

And hey, in academia, all things are possible.

Being educated, a graduate, she didn’t understand the question:

Woke reporter SHUTS DOWN my Interview when I expose her as a racist.

She says it is not possible to be racist toward white people. When I show her that simple logic disproves everything she is saying, she is forced to get up & end the conversation. pic.twitter.com/MC3CaCRhzf

— Warren Smith (@WTSmith17) August 10, 2026

“You can’t be racist against white people,” says she, confidently, having just demonstrated precisely the opposite, and then doing it again.

The facial dynamics may also be of interest.

Note madam’s insistence that racism only exists if it’s backed by “power,” the particulars of which remain somewhat unclear – a claim designed to give license to racial minorities and especially black people – pre-emptively and on an indefinite basis – when indulging in racist sentiment or behaviour.

When asked how she came to this perverse and non-reciprocal redefinition, she looks surprised, indeed incredulous. “I went to school,” says she. “I went to university.”

And so, we have an enthusiast of “equity,” a credentialled being, who’s “making sure the standards are the same” by making those standards wildly different, depending on the colour of your skin and therefore how oppressed you must be. Or conversely, how inclined you must be to crush others underfoot, on account of your pallor.

She’s a reporter, you know. Bodes well.

My own definition of “equity,” illustrated many, many times, would be something like equality of outcome regardless of inputs. Inputs including diligence, effort and ability. Which doesn’t sound fair at all.

But as we’ve seen, the church of “equity” requires elaborate mental contortion, via which, “granting access” entails denying access – say, by shutting down advanced courses for gifted pupils – and among devotees, “whiteness” is the go-to pejorative, a thing to be corrected, and for which the sinfully pale are expected to atone.

There’s a through-the-looking-glass quality.

A fun-house mirror malevolence that’s illustrated here.

Should further, real-world illustrations of “equity” be required, a compendium can be found here, including the outlawing of even basic tests of teacher competence, on grounds of “disparate impact,” and firefighters who cannot read the instructions on their own safety equipment.

Update:

Oh, and should any readers have assumed that the exchange above is some one-off aberration, there are other wonders to behold:

I challenge another student on DEI. He says“racism towards white people is not really a problem.” pic.twitter.com/fFDnu8rydT

— Warren Smith (@WTSmith17) August 20, 2026

Needless to say, a pattern emerges.

I paraphrase, of course. Though not, I think, wildly:

The alleged harms of debate and the citing of statistics are not mere rudeness or a failure to flatter, but “lasting psychological damage.” Because statistics can do that, apparently.

What might constitute controversy in the minds of such implausibly delicate creatures is not made clear, though we are told that the terms “blind review,” “handicap parking” and “immigrant” were considered “harmful language” by Stanford University’s IT department. Which does rather suggest a kind of neurotic contrivance.

Humble, you say. We’ll get to that in a second.

You can guess where this one’s going.

And,

And what better gift to the world than imposing your own hang-ups and inadequacies on everyone else, quite emphatically, at every opportunity?

And then we arrive at this glorious conundrum:

The study, found here, informs us that those most keen to pre-emptively shut down discussion, including by vigorous means, also “rated themselves as higher in… empathy.”

The inversions of progressive “empathy” – and its routine departure from reality – have of course been poked at here before.

And regarding those claims of humility, nothing says, ‘I entertain the possibility that my assumptions may be wrong’ like forbidding any and all attempts at contradiction.

Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

Lifted from the comments, some beverage-related economics news:

This is like the entire left versus right debate on markets pic.twitter.com/5PlEn1uWS5

— wanye (@xwanyex) April 29, 2026

What things actually cost is “incredibly rightwing,” apparently.

As Rafi says in reply,

The inability to grasp how things work is quite remarkable. There’s an air of imperviousness. And it does, I think, capture something of broader attitudes. Certainly, I’ve had several not dissimilar conversations.

I’m now poking at the implication that the All Powerful State should have an army of po-faced minions patrolling the nation’s coffee shops, correcting the price of oat milk and other disgusting boutique substances. Regardless of the actual cost to the owner of the coffee shop.

And so, not comprehending fairly obvious things, despite being adults, Our Betters invoke conspiracies and call for a kind of ludicrous tyranny.

By the way, Mr Cohen – the chap upset at having to pay a few extra cents for oat milk in his coffee – is an assistant professor of sociology at Berkeley. He has pronouns in his bio.

He teaches those less knowledgeable and worldly than himself.

Oh, and being an assistant professor of sociology, a statusful intellectual, Mr Cohen has, at the time of writing, not seen fit to respond to any of the numerous comments pointing out his error.

Including polite and informative replies from owners of coffee shops.