Posted on 01/14/2019 1:26:15 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Here’s Victor Davis Hanson. This is really an excellent piece. The title of his piece, “The Game of Pseudo-Authenticity.”
One of the things his column focuses on is this whole idea of white privilege, white supremacy, white this, white that. One of the points he makes is that it is amazing — it is really amazing — how hard the Democrats have worked to lie about who they are, that they are completely fake. They all… Think Kennedys, think Pelosi, think Tom Steyer. The Democrat Party is the modern-day home of obscene wealth in this country. People don’t know this because of age-old image-making that has portrayed Republicans and CEOs as big, rich, uncaring, mean-spirited racist bigots.
But everybody thinks the Republicans are the party of the rich and the party of tax cuts for the rich. But the home of modern uber-wealth in America today is the Democrat Party. One of the points here is that every damned one of them, every damn one — from Warren Buffett to Bill Gates, all of these uber-wealthy people and how they got there. They all have gained tremendous benefits and power and advantage by virtue of them and their families’ participation in the American dream.
It is their participation in the American dream, it is their belief in the American dream, it is their immersing themselves in capitalism that has resulted in them having more wealth than anybody dreams possible. And yet, instead of celebrating it, instead of attempting to inspire others to follow in their footsteps, they lie about it. They lie about who they are. They lie about what they believe. They lie about their economic policies and philosophies. They want everybody to think that they are hardened, socialist leftists.
Whatever they are, they are not rich Republicans. Whatever they are, they are not rich conservatives. But they epitomize fraud. They epitomize fakery. Look at family of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her “family’s story is one of higher education, upward mobility, and integration into the majority population (somewhat similar to Kamala Harris’s upbringing in Berkeley and Montreal, the daughter of a cancer research scientist, and a Stanford economics professor).” That’s Kamala Harris. But no one ever lies about being more white.
They all lie about being more anything else. If whites are so privileged, why would you abandon it? If there is such a thing as white privilege, why would you do everything you can to run away from it? If all the privilege in America — if all advantages, if all opportunities — are reserved for white people, why would you want to be seen as running as far away from it as you can? Well, because the answer is, whites are not overall more privileged in America than anybody else is. It’s another lie. It’s another series of fakery.
It’s another bit of political construction to insulate these people from being criticized for their acquisition of wealth, being criticized for their acquisition of power, while they engage in that conservatism of others and accuse white people of having engaged in some sort of illegal, nefarious practices; taking avenge of the unfairness that white people have in America. When in fact they’ve done it all! Many of them are white! They run away from it. Where is this white privilege? If it is so dominant, if it’s the way to go — if white privilege is what it takes to get where you want to go, earn the money you want to earn, whatever — why abandon it?
Victor Davis Hanson: If white privilege is a real thing, why is no one trying to claim ethnic whiteness in order access those enormous privileges? Now, you might think the question answers itself, but I still think that it is a good question because white privilege is BS. It’s another hokum-pokum construction of the left that does not exist in reality. Don’t tell your average college student, however.
You know what worries me? Have you seen the latest? We talked about this, the Bird Box, the movie, and now people putting blindfolds on themselves running around. Do you realize how much stupidity there is among American youth today? Some of you people that are not yet retirement age had better be very worried that there aren’t gonna be enough young people living long enough to provide your benefits, the way they’re killing themselves engaging in the stupidity they’re engaging in.
What is that one thing we heard, tampon something or tampon fires or tampon swallowing or something or tampon juice? Remember that? Condom snorting? Yeah, there’s condom snorting and then there’s Tide Pods and what people are doing with those. These people are absolutely lunatics! Imitating walking around blindfolded. Anyway, if white privilege is a real thing, why is no one trying to claim it? Why does nobody want to be it?
It’s kind of a turnaround on Yogi Berra’s old saw: “You know what? That restaurant, it’s so crowded, nobody goes there anymore.” Yeah, white privilege. It’s such an unfair advantage that nobody wants to use it. Instead, what do we have? We have a bunch of very successful white people trying to lie and claim more degrees of blackness. Look at what was the name Rachel Dolezal and then we got Fauxcahontas, “I’m an Indian! I’m one 1/1024 Indian!”
We have all kinds of white people doing everything they can to claim they’ve got some degree of blackness, some degree of Native Americanness, some degree of Hispanicness. Or we have rich people claiming to be poor. “How odd that our establishment insists that being ‘white’ is synonymous with unearned ‘white privilege,’ while millions of whites in job and college applications for decades have been trying to con fake minority-identities and while upscale minorities have no desire—even when intermarried, assimilated, and integrated into the majority culture—of emphasizing the partial white ancestry.”
You notice that? Obama is half white. He doesn’t want any part of that whiteness. No way. White privilege? Why not? If there is so much white privilege, if there is so much white opportunity, if all of the power resides in white America, then why not emphasize a part of you that is white and claim it and be part of that club?
Instead, we’ve got these lunatics like Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Dolezal and all the rest of them trying to claim that they are one smidgen of this Hispanic or one smidgen of this African-American. I know you think the question answers itself, and it may. This is an all-out assault on the white majority because the white majority is blamed as being the lineage of the founders of this country and of course the foundation of this country is unjust and immoral and unacceptable and must be overturned.
“Minority identity has become a brand for the upper middle class in the manner of a luxury car. One strives to drive a Mercedes or Jaguar not because it is more reliable or even all that much more drivable than a Toyota or Honda, but because it signals a particular cachet.” It says something about you. “And so too wealthy suburbanites often find emphasizing non-white identities useful even if it means occasionally constructing them.”
Remember when adopting a black African child was the new accessory for Hollywood starlets? And that’s what it was. It was an ancestry for the uber-guilty left. It was the most recent way of wearing the red ribbon that said you cared about something when nobody else did. And the more ribbons you wore, the bigger your heart was, and the fewer ribbons you wore, the more hate you had. Everything is symbolism.
“In other words, in almost every case of cultural or racial appropriation, the effort is largely one of a progressive seeking to be more even authentically progressive by identifying more genuinely with perceived victims of majority biases and discrimination.”
You have all this white privilege, they say, you have all these advantages, and yet white leftists run away from it, and they join organizations to try to ridicule it. And yet they have used every ounce of that privilege to amass fortunes and power, like Elizabeth Warren, the names go on and on.
So you have a game here of pseudo-authenticity. And it just epitomizes the Democrats’ push for everybody to believe and act as though this is a country of new minorities, new demographics. That nobody wants to be part of this white privilege because it’s so evil, so inherently unfair, unjust, immoral, mean-spirited. And it’s just more unreality, more inauthenticity.
So what’s real, what’s decent, what’s good gets laughed at, ripped, criticized, and it makes people afraid, certain people afraid to be who they are. So they attempt to tell people they’re not that and they’re something else. Before you know it, nobody is real.
Look to the half breeds to see where the privilege is.
Obama.
Kaepernick.
Our more local but NAACP dude Ben Jealous (great name).
All half, all raised by whites, all choose to be black.
Applies in my personal experiences, too.
Then look at the completely fake blacks...the whites passing as black.
Who has privilege?
Way back in the Johnny Carson era, a Black comedian (Flip Wilson, if I recall) told Johnny “I am freer then you are. You use the n****r word just once and your career is gone. Your show will be taken off the air. But I can call you honky, cracker or just about anything you can imagine and nothing will happen to me.”
Here is an experiment to see if there is such thing as white privilege. Put together a resume that is qualified for a a certain job position and send it out 2 100 employers while indicating that you are white. Now do the same again while indicating you are black. Which gets more responses?
I have 99% “Chimpanzee Privilege.”
Among other benefits, I’m allowed to poop on the sidewalk in San Francisco.
This only matters if you are a democrat/liberal, who live on lies, fake news, and false science.
Richard Nixon tried to get people to call Spiro Agnew “Ted” (based on his middle name). Of course Agnew’s surname was not the original form of the name—it was a long Greek name.
White has long been an empirical, historical proxy for evangelical Christian in America. That kind of worldview tended to bring prosperity.
Be that as it may, anyone who has a good spiritual sense of Christ knows that whiteness is not joined at the hip with Christian things as though the Creator did it for all time. This is America’s situation, and Europe’s situation before it. The bible itself stubbornly keeps on telling us: “for God so loved the WORLD.”
The answer to such accusations shouldn’t be to yield to the limited terminological palette of the accuser. God can help us paint more colors.
That is monkey business
Before the Dot-Com Crash, H-1B visas, and the Great Recession of 2008, the Monkey Business used to pay a pretty good salary.
At 16 I started working for Flash Welding retubing boilers in NYC. I look back on this privilege but I am not sure if it has anything to do with being white.
Bless ‘em all.
I was wondering the other day amongst all the old white farmers at the local hay auction ... who will farm when we are gone? My 20-year-old son was about the only kid there out of about 40 people.
Who cares somebody will it's called supply and demand.
Adam Carolla filled out application then waited 6 years to take a fireman test. The women next near him waited since Tuesday.
White Privilege destroyed by Adam Carolla
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