Posted on 08/30/2019 6:59:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In an ongoing cultural controversy in Vermont, a former House member named Kiah Morris has launched a video attacking Vermonters and their culture as racist. Ms. Morris has employed the empty trope that Vermonters who wish to preserve their traditional culture employ "political tactics [that] are historically consistent in the acceleration of increased discrimination, bias, and hate crimes against ethnic minorities and other marginalized people." It becomes necessary to expose the absurd toxicity of such rantings.
Ms. Morris's words reveal that she is not "from" Vermont. Yet this student of "gender studies" proclaims that "[u]nless you are First Nations, you have no right to claim who are real Vermonters. Nativist platforms are the basest level of discourse." Having immigrated to Vermont, Kiah has decided that she will decide who are real Vermonters. But does calling herself "African" American make her an appropriator of a foreign culture that she has likely never even visited? Is Ms. Morris asserting that those who "identify" themselves as disparate from other Americans because of a distant genetic link to Africa "employ the basest level of political discourse" to establish bias against white, "non-African" Americans?
If Louisiana tried to preserve Mardi Gras, Nevada invited people to gamble, or Missouri challenged people to "show me," would they be guilty of advancing "base nativist platforms"? In Vermont, a woman from Chicago who self-identifies as "African-American" but is not from Africa is scolding Vermonters for defending the culture into which they were born (that is, to which they are actually native) based solely on their non–American Indian DNA.
This sleight of hand is not so slight. Vermont conflates culture with race in its opioid crisis — blaming higher rates of incarceration of out-of-state (urban) blacks and Hispanics on systemic white nationalism.
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Why, at this stage in the destruction of our republic would anyone respond to the Marxist trigger word ‘racist’?
Unhappy, angry, and power-mad is a scary combo.
Can’t even count the number of liberals that fit that description.
The world is going stark, raving mad.
Because it will make the Marxists in Vermont who vote for Crazy Bernie religiously cower in fear!
At this point the term “racism” is like ketchup, you can put it on almost anything.
Most of those using the term so freely these days are Marxists who need to divide our society before taking it over. In Europe and Russia Marxists were able to do this with class struggles, but it’s still possible in the USA to work your way up the economic ladder so these a-holes have turned to fomenting racial strife instead.
Racist is a term used when the person using is A) doesn’t have a rational policy position of any substance and B) doesn’t have a real argument for anything they’re advancing.
Because what’s not to like about Vermont in terms of ... err...
“The world is going stark, raving mad.”
Future historians, assuming there are any, will look back at our times and call them “The Crazy Years”. Props to Robert Heinlein.
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It's going to get "French Revolution" or "Khmer Rouge" crazy before it's all over.
“It’s going to get “French Revolution” or “Khmer Rouge” crazy before it’s all over.”
I am afraid you’re right.
Best get ready.
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That right there is what you call an oxymoron, folks.
I guess that makes the ANC and all those Communist "nationalist" movements nativist, right?
Given Vermont smug holier than thou attitude and their voting record as uber socialist and their contribution to the destruction of America in the form of Bernie, I can’t work up a lot of sympathy for them.
And I definitely have have zero use for the race monger, whoever the hell she is, so I’m cheering for both to crash and burn.
Enbrace the insult and go on the offensive.
The martial art of politics.
Where do they get this Vermont is Racist stuff, just because there were no Black Characters on The Bob Newhart Show?
Don’t they realize that Vermont Maple Syrup is Brown just like the Pancakes you pour it over?
“Don’t they realize that Vermont Maple Syrup is Brown just like the Pancakes you pour it over?”
Yes but Mrs Butterworth and Aunt Jemima are out of a job.
I always think of lumberjack types putting a spigot in a tree and maple syrup coming out
Vermont or New Hampshire. It is hard to tell which is which.
Unless your family is seven generations in the ground here, you’re not a “Vermonter”.
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