Posted on 10/18/2009 4:20:45 AM PDT by Scanian
Okay … so the title of this blog is alarming, right? Well, yeah! Nobody in this country takes the charge of racist lightly – especially white Americans. That’s because white Americans have had the charge of racism beaten into their consciousness for more than six decades, now. [1]
But, incredible as it may seem, just as soon as one charge of racism is laid to rest with the election of the first so-called post-racial President, another charge of racism rises to take its place. This time, we are told, the racists are those who believe that the Mayan culture teaches that the year 2012 will inaugurate a cataclysmic apocalypse. Really … I’m not making this up!
This damning indictment comes from none other than Maggie Koerth-Baker, a self-described writer and editor whose areas of interest include anthropology. In a recent article , Maggie had this to say about members of the New Age community who think the year 2012 is associated with Mayan end-time prophecy:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I tend to agree that the whole end of the world idea has been attributed to the mayans by westerners but its quite a stretch to say that those who believe it are racists.
Oh, I forgot. It's not racist to undermine the beliefs of the Catholic Church, Christianity with pure fiction.
Has anyone ever noticed that people named “Maggie” are worthless idiots?
Margaret ( Maggie ) Thatcher included?
Guilt tripping white “liberals” is nothing new.
This video pegs it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeU_5YmS_9E
I am a white male, of course I am a racist, I am not aloud to be anything else.
Here is the rest, without damned pop-ups:
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This damning indictment comes from none other than Maggie Koerth-Baker, a self-described writer and editor whose areas of interest include anthropology. In a recent article , Maggie had this to say about members of the New Age community who think the year 2012 is associated with Mayan end-time prophecy:
“(T)he idea of a countdown to cataclysmic apocalypse is a Western, not Mayan idea … (and) money (is) being raked in by woo-woo charlatans … who are all capitalizing off what amounts to willful misinterpretations of Mayan legends, traditions and science.”
Apparently, Maggie once took a class in anthropology at Kansas University, and she considers her former college professor’s views to be authoritative. He would like:
“… to see more of the revenue from the hyping of 2012 mythology …go directly to the living descendants of the ancient Maya whose cultural heritage and intellectual property is being appropriated without their knowledge or consent for the financial benefit of non-Maya hucksters.”
Maggie confesses that she doesn’t quite “know the best way to handle” the wealth expropriation scheme advocated by her former professor, but there is one thing about which she is absolutely clear in her own mind:
“I personally see a lot of racism at play in this story. Not the white hood sort of racism, sure. But I don’t think I have a better word for what happens when the largely white and wealthy American New Age community co-opts and exoticises (sic) the traditions of a marginalized native people and then ignores those people when they say, ‘That’s not what our traditions mean. Please stop misrepresenting us.’”
So, for all the New Age White Racists out there who have the temerity to believe in a Mayan end-time prophecy, they had better watch out, because Maggie and her band of cultural Marxists [2] are on the prowl and looking to redistribute their ill-gotten gains!
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[1] For a little insight into some of the effects that this drumbeat of criticism has had on the last two generations of white Americans, take a look at a recent article by a Berkeley therapist.
[2] Cultural Marxism is a phenomenon that we know better by the pseudonym “political correctness.” Its influence in America, especially academia, has now reached pandemic proportions.
If we would just kill all white people then the world and in particular the US would be utopia.
You know, if I was a Mayan - I would think that end came somewhere in the late 1600’s—you know when the Spanish finished off the few that remained from the previous several hundred years of decline.
Though, I have noticed that the Climate Change argument for their decline gets more and more attention. The have yet to find any SUV’s. factories or other significant carbon footprint indicators.
re: Margaret ( Maggie ) Thatcher included?
My Mom would have said there’s always an exception that proves the rule. I didn’t always agree, or see how in the world it could be true in the particular case, but Mom had said it and that was all there was to the discussion. My only appeal would be to Dad, and I had no desire to get my case taken up in THAT venue.
Mom was veritable wealth of rules of thumb and old sayings. I must admit, after living life myself she was right on with most of them. Things like kids should be seen and not heard. Or, wait until your Dad gets home! Thank God, literally, Dad never had a cell phone. My butt was saved many a time by her having to wait to get in touch with him! He worked in the ship yard and by the time they could get someone down there to tell him to call home and for him to make his way to a phone she had usually gotten over it. I’m not sure I would have survived childhood and youth if there had been cell phones.
“If we would just kill all white people then the world and in particular the US would be utopia.”
Till the power failed, and every store and market had been looted to the bare shelves. Then the animals would eat each other in the dark.
I think it’s just an effort by a conservative writer to label some wacko liberal New Agers as racists. Maybe just because it feels so good.
Yeah—then it would be just like Zimbabwe!
Interesting conundrum, if she ran around calling herself Maggie, well yes. Although, her Title and formal name was never abused and only the idiots called her Maggie.
I have no first hand knowledge of course, but I have read that she was known as Maggie to her close friends.
No big deal here either way. She was the first person who popped into my head at the mention of the name.
I have a cousin named Margaret and she has been known as Maggie to her family her entire life. Guess that’s where I got the idea. No offense meant to Mrs. Thatcher or to you, I wouldn’t like to be thought of as an “idiot”.
“…close friends.”
Very considerate post, thank you.
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