The end of the Social Justice Détente

After the wrenching fights over social justice from the ’60s through the early ’70s, American society made an implicit bargain I like to call The Social Justice Détente: no big new government policy moves to correct injustices no public expressions of overt bigotry Advocates for social justice today tend to think of the emergence of The Détente as simply the bigots winning, but it did not seem…