“Ah, no, I don’t think that racism is a strong and powerful force in our society,” Christopher Rufo, an appointee of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis to the board of New College of Florida, says on some podcast. “I think it certainly has been in the past. But, um, as I, y’know, live my life and, and deal with people from all different backgrounds, I-I do not think that this society is racist. I do not think that racism is a determinative force in the lives of most people and um, um, um of all backgrounds, and I think I dispute also–” [cut]
I’m shocked–SHOCKED, I say!–that that straight, cis-gendered Christian white male Christopher Rufo, who grew up in suburban Sacramento as the son of two lawyers who then went to Georgetown, has not experienced racism in his everyday life as he interacts with “people from all different backgrounds” like, maybe, those people from all different backgrounds do. Why, it’s like he’s been privileged to avoid experiencing racism unless he wants to.