Sunday, August 13, 2017

If you want to end racism, then you end it, for everyone, and everywhere.

Vox explains that white protesters in Charlottesville were examples of "white fragility."

Because, obviously, it can have nothing to do with college students being told to get off campus because they are white or professors calling for the death of white people or white working class people in economically decaying communities being told that they should be ashamed of their "white privilege."

Or elite, urban leftists using the term "white fragility" when they disagree with the premise of "white privilege." White fragility is an incredibly racist term that lumps all white people into a single group and then ascribes a weakness to them when they object to leftism.

Amazingly, it seems that when you treat white men as a repugnant political group, sometimes some of them say "OK, if that's the way you want it." And sometimes they decide that their political interests align closer than that of the urban elites, and - voila! - you have Trump.

If you want to end racism, then you end it.

You don't just shift the target of racism.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Even better, disparage anyone you don't like by calling them a "leftist." Wonderful how hate knows no tribal boundaries. And I remember just the other day when I called for the death of white people and the death of the white working class and how I shamed some white people living in a decaying community. I can't wait to do it all again tomorrow.

Anonymous said...

Telling Quote: "One of the nastiest trends in Western politics in recent years has been the relentless radicalization of public life and political debate. Everyone has been forced, often against their will, into a racial box."

Its so obvious that if one goes back beyond "recent years" no one (i.e. no white man) was forced into a racial box. As a former Southern Democrat President once said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” Now that was when America was great. But I get that it sucks to be competing to stay off of the bottom like everyone else. However, I'm an "urban elite" so I wouldn't have any more than an intellectual understanding of this competition. Maybe more pick and shovel coal mines would do the trick, or perhaps a significant decrease in the highest incremental federal income tax rates? Or voter registration requirements designed to limit the number of black voters? After all, "what have you got to lose?"

Anonymous said...

“The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans.”
- Nixon’s political strategist Kevin Phillips

 
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