Performative Anti‑Racism Entrenches Bias

Elite institutions loudly declare anti‑racism while operationally privileging a different set of cultural and political commitments, producing a stable double standard in hiring, coverage, and punishment. Over time this performative posture hardens into structural bias—hostile to certain viewpoints and skeptical of others—shaping which grievances get public oxygen and which are ignored. — If true, this explains persistent mistrust in major institutions and predicts durable polarization because procedural gestures replace substantive reforms, changing how policy and accountability should be pursued.