The mainstream media began waging World War T in the first half of 2013 as their triumph in World War G was wrapping up. But you can’t just demobilize the Volunteer Auxiliary Thought Police and send them home. They’ve developed a taste for power, for the thrill of informing. But what next?

In one corner are, of course, blacks, a vast group with real problems. They offer the straight mainline dose of racial rage. That many of the problems of blacks over the last 50 years are transparently of their own making makes World War B sound more attractive, since it offers more traps for crimethinking whites who believe their lying eyes.

On the other hand, as Ferguson showed once again, whenever the prestige press picks out an incident to rouse the furies of right-thinkers everywhere, the details of the encounter usually turn out to be a travesty. Granted, that provides fun opportunities for, say, deftly shifting the subject, but, over time, the sheer low-brow violent tawdriness of so many examples of black troubles gets depressing.

If World War B is the crack cocaine of social justice social climbing, providing an instant rush of self-righteousness but too underclass for prolonged engagement, World War T offers countless opportunities of more light and sophisticated ways to wrongfoot the wrong kind of whites. Pronoun genders alone provide an endless field of combat at which people who were good at English and French in high school can demonstrate their superiority, once again, over those who weren’t so adept at pronouns in high school.

Thus, the New York Times Magazine addresses at length the burning issue of the moment, World War T:

Can Jill Soloway Do Justice to the Trans Movement?

By TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER AUG. 29, 2014

This is actually a promo piece for some new TV show, Transparent, whose pitch is: Let’s puts Jeffrey Tambor (The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development) in a dress!

Granted, TV comics have been wearing dresses since at least Milton Berle, but this latest show about a funnyman in drag comes equipped apparently with a large apparatus of grad school Gender Theory so its fans can not only feel not unfashionable about laughing at the oldest gag on comedy TV, but can feel socially triumphant while doing it over people who never even went to grad school.

* As a commenter notes, actual transsexuals, as opposed to brilliant character actors such as Jeffrey Tambor, tend to have a lot of tawdry, sometimes violent problems that they cause for themselves.

But that’s just the genius of choosing to invest your social climbing efforts into championing a microscopic minority. It’s all so abstract and easy to imagine whatever you wish based on media accounts since few people have ever had, say, their car break down in a transgender neighborhood. There is much less opportunity to believe your lying eyes.