Desire and Fate
For capitalism, the politics of atonement, which when all is said and done is what identitarian progressivism is all about, has turned out to be a little more than a post-modern version of the indulgences sold by the Medieval Church. That is why those who call DEI bureaucrats grifters have got it wrong. For to call someone a grifter implies that they are committing some form of fraud, and there is no fraud going on in this context. To the contrary, the DEI ideology performs the essential service of conferring moral legitimacy on a Western capitalist system that, with the decline of Christianity and the hollowing out of the nation state, was sorely in need of it.