After the War on Statues | Belmont Club:
"January 2005 may be remembered as the Day It All Began. At a Conference on Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce, Larry Summers lost his job as president of Harvard by suggesting there might be small differences in aptitude between men and women in STEM fields. That was enough to finish him. Although the penalty may have struck some as disproportionate no one attached any wider significance to the incident at the time.
In retrospect Summers' fall was the start of a sequence of events that is even now racing to a climax. After Summers the vortex which pulled him down eddied on claiming further victims. By 2012 it had become unacceptable to think of illegal immigration as a crime. A CNN article marked the moment when "the words 'illegal immigrants' and 'illegal aliens," became verboten:"
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