How do you become a “Good Ancestor?” Sounds to me like the Catholic Church’s selling of indulgences in the early sixteenth century, “a coin in the coffee rings, a soul from Purgatory springs” as the old saying went. Nowadays, you buy their overpriced, poorly-written books, donate to their orgs (who then give the money to the DNC, indirectly). You might even go to their “anti-racist training” which functions a lot like confession mixed with a Maoist Communist struggle session. I also think their obsession with kneeling as a symbol and an action is overtly religious as well. The work of James Lindsay, one of the authors of the bait academic papers, has studied the modern-day Left, which has eschewed Christianity, the primary religion of the West that produced them. He argues that leftists had to replace it with something, something that also was opposed to the religion and culture that they hate. This drive for religiosity, even as they detest the religion of their society, may also be why so many on the Left have a love for Islam, a religion that is far more oppressive in the present than Christianity was at its worst moments in the past. I’m just trying to understand the contractions of Leftist thought, while at the same time trying to understand their unified fervor, what might be called orthodoxy.