Is wokeness dead? It’s dead under that name, but nah, there’s a whole generation of completely useless people who have been indoctrinated into it, the way a generation of Soviet bureaucrats were indoctrinated into Marxism-Leninism. They know their ‘anti-racist’ training and since they’re useless anyway, they can justify their uselessness by explaining that being useful is actually ‘white supremacy.’
Meet Grace Hagen: the new executive director of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association.
You would think the first question in an interview would have something to do with keeping independent booksellers alive in the Midwest. But since that’s a lost cause anyway, they just cut to well… read.
Q: How does your work as an anti-racism trainer with social justice organizations inform your current position at MIBA?
A: Decision making sometimes has a sense of urgency that is a part of white supremacy culture. That urgency has us making decisions that aren’t always inclusive
Decision making is white supremacy. So is urgency. So is doing your job.
As a white woman (she/her) who is also a DEI trainer, engages in radical empathy building with an equity lens, Grace knows that everything is white supremacy. Like probably books. And trying to sell them. The only truly anti-racist thing to do is pay her a lot of money to not make decisions and talk about inclusiveness, inclusivity and incluselousness.
Just don’t make any decisions. Especially not urgent ones.
