The Cobra Effect: Why Good Intentions Don't Solve Problems

If you are an anti-racist charity, for example, the gradual elimination of racism - your stated goal - is a direct threat to your existence. This is why you must find more and more evidence of the thing you are attempting to eradicate, which is where concepts like “microaggressions” come from. In the absence of clear evidence of racism, new forms must be found.

As Thomas Sowell once wrote in Is Reality Optional?, “Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good”.