Every concern I have about the successor ideology and the dysfunction it can sow in important institutions is captured in this public meeting from New York City It's too long and tedious to be a parody but it could hardly be more outlandish if it was 1/

Almost nothing that could conceivably help any school or school child gets done... because they spend almost the whole time in an absurd struggle session accusing one another of microaggressions & demanding apologies of one another & touting the DiAngelesque work they're doing 2/

Unforgivable amounts of time are spent arguing about whether it was racist for one white guy to briefly hold his friend's baby of color on his lap while on Zoom during the prior meeting. A few voices of sanity weigh in near the end but they accomplish nothing in 90 minutes 3/

If you think complaints about what @wesyang calls "the successor ideology" overblown, what do you think went wrong here and why don't you think it will spread in other civic institutions and make them less good at serving the public? /end