Brooks has long been the pet “conservative”, or at least pet Right-winger at the NYT, at least before super-cuck, David French (former writer for National Review) joined the kennel.

These creatures are fed, watered and groomed at fabulous New York parties by the delighted Democrats and assorted leftists at the paper, who still think they can gaslight GOP voters about their fairness and balance by employing these folks, both of whom are pining anxiously for the GOP to return to the “normalcy” of electing yet another Bush as Presidential nominee, or some other member of that class.

But there are occasions when reality breaks through, and Brooks appears to be having a “moment” (which I’m sure will be brief):

Over the last decades we’ve taken over whole professions and locked everybody else out. When I began my journalism career in Chicago in the 1980s, there were still some old crusty working-class guys around the newsroom. Now we’re not only a college-dominated profession, we’re an elite-college-dominated profession. Only 0.8 percent of all college students graduate from the super elite 12 schools (the Ivy League colleges, plus Stanford, M.I.T., Duke and the University of Chicago). A 2018 study found that more than 50 percent of the staff writers at the beloved New York Times and The Wall Street Journal attended one of the 29 most elite universities in the nation.
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Like all elites, we use language and mores as tools to recognize one another and exclude others. Using words like problematic, cisgender, Latinx and intersectional is a sure sign that you’ve got cultural capital coming out of your ears. Meanwhile, members of the less-educated classes have to walk on eggshells, because they never know when we’ve changed the usage rules, so that something that was sayable five years ago now gets you fired.

Ah! So that’s the reason for this self-examination; Brooks has begun to realise that he and others could be next against the wall in this revolution, rather like the progressive Canadian educator who took his own life recently after pushing back against the racism directed at Whites in his DEI training session:

Bilkszto, who had a 24-year career as a principal and previously taught at an inner-city Buffalo school — and witnessed serious differences in how Black and white students were treated there — didn’t think it was fair to call Canada the greater harbourer of racism, according to his court filing. Citing public health care and a more equal funding system for education, he spoke up.

“To sit here and talk about facts and figures and then walk into the classroom tomorrow and say ‘Canada is just as bad as the United States,’ I think we are doing an incredible disservice to our learners,” he told the class.

Ojo-Thompson is described to have reacted with vitriol: “We are here to talk about anti-Black racism, but you in your whiteness think that you can tell me what’s really going on for Black people.” Bilkszto replied that racism is very real, and that there’s plenty of room for improvement — but that the facts still show Canada is a fairer place. Another KOJO training facilitator jumped in, telling Bilkszto that “if you want to be an apologist for the U.S. or Canada, this is really not the forum for that.” Ojo-Thompson concluded the exchange by telling the class that “your job in this work as white people is to believe” — not to question claims of racism.

In short he was labeled a “White Supremacist” and sadly because he was a Leftist himself he took this all to heart and spiraled downhill until he took his own life. Had he been a right-winger he might have just told that evil, racist POS to go fuck herself.

I haven’t linked to the original NYT Brook’s article because I don’t want keep them alive with clicks, so instead have linked to the article by one Lincoln Brown who comments on Brook’s navel gazing (and do read the whole article)

What you have failed to understand, Mr. Brooks, is that we less-educated members of the proletariat (and by less educated, we’re talking anyone without an Ivy League education) have pretty much been putting up with you all this time. We have swallowed more words than can be found in Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.
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The American elites have showered disdain and outright hatred on those of us not lucky enough to be numbered among their ranks. And yet, without this despised class, life in America would be impossible. You elites have no idea how to manage livestock or crops. You cannot frame houses, install plumbing, or run electrical wires. If your cars die, you have no idea what to do next. And often those things are not particularly easy to address. They all require a great deal of intelligence and an education that cannot be found in the Ivy League. These people who you have hated so much don’t just do the jobs the elites won’t do. They do the jobs the elites can’t do.
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The only ones who benefit from white privilege are you. Oh, and from now on, you can change your own damn oil.

From a different topic:

The cognoscenti never figured out or accepted that the support for protest candidates like Trump or Bernie Sanders even is rooted in wide generalized rage directed their way. To this day they don’t accept it. They keep thinking they can wish it away, describe it away (see Bump’s description of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as “not at this point serious competition”), indict it away. If you drop 76 charges on a candidate and he goes up in polls, you might want to consider that you might be part of the problem. But they can’t take even that heavy a hint.

But not just American elites: Western elites.

Shorter Brooks: If only Stalin knew!. I doubt that Brooks is aware of this now-famous piece of British comedy but he should be:

Oh you are, David Brooks. You and the rest of your shitty class are the baddies.