The late-1970s rise in racist ideas actively suppressed antiracist activism.

Evidence

Nor was Davis happy with the decline of antiracist activism, which was slowing in the midst of—or rather, because of—the growing production and consumption of racist ideas in the late 1970s. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1075

Categorization

• QUESTION: Kendi’s core inversion says policy produces ideas. Here the causal direction runs ideas-slow-activism — worth testing how this fits the inversion model.