Posted on 03/20/2018 3:06:05 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Intersectionality, Tribalism and Farrakhan A movement of bigotries can only divide us. March 20, 2018 Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
A funny thing happened on the way to the intersectional future. The proverbial knapsack was unpacked in the Womens March and inside wasnt just racial tribalism, but racial and religious supremacism.
Why do Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour of the Womens March like Farrakhan and his hate group?
The Nation of Islam preaches that black people are the master race. It doesnt just hate white people, Jews and a whole bunch of other folks. It hates them out of a conviction in its own superiority. According to its teachings, the Blackman is the original man and lighter skinned people were devils created by an evil mad scientist to rule over black people until they are destroyed by UFOs.
It even teaches that monkeys are descended from white people.
Progressive media essays defending Obama, Rep. Keith Ellison, Rep. Danny Davis, Mallory and other black leaders for their Farrakhan links have urged concerned liberals to look at the positive aspects of the Nation of Islam, its love for black people, not the negative, its hatred for white people.
But it is the positive that is the problem.
Intersectionality promises to package tribal identity politics into a utopia of social justice. But the essence of tribalism is the superiority of your people and the inferiority of all other groups. Tribalism doesnt have to be violent, hostile or hateful. Most peoples are tribal after all. But when you combine the most radical identity politics elements, as the left does, then bigoted supremacism is certain.
The clown car of identity politics runs smoothest when it has a common enemy: white people. Coalitions like the Womens March assemble an array of groups who are united by their hatred of Trump, white people, Israel and root beer. And it works as long as no one lifts up the hood and looks at the engine.
Black nationalism is racist, sexist, anti-Semitic and homophobic. The Nation of Islam isnt an exception. From Jeremiah Wright, Italians looked down their garlic noses, to Eldridge Cleaver, rape was an insurrectionary act to Amiri Baraka, the ugliest possible supremacist bigotry is its natural state.
"We are all beautiful (except white people, they are full of, and made of s___)," Amiri Baraka wrote. "The fag's death they gave us on a cross... they give us to worship a dead jew and not ourselves."
I got the extermination blues, jew-boys. I got the Hitler syndrome figured... So come for the rent, jewboys, the Guggenheim fellowship, PEN and American Book Award winner, and former Poet Laureate of New Jersey ranted.
Baraka was one of the countrys most celebrated black nationalist poets and he was a former member of the Nation of Islam. Barakas Black Mass circulated the NOIs racist creation myth.
It was the NOIs conviction of black superiority and white inferiority that attracted Baraka and so many other black nationalists. The NOI is one of a variety of black supremacist religious groups, from the similarly exotic Moorish and Black Hebrew churches, to NOI splinter groups such as Five-Percent Nation and black nationalist churches like the one attended by the Obamas and presided over by Jeremiah Wright. But religious black supremacism is only a component of a larger cultural movement that lies at the heart of black nationalism and mingles historical conspiracy theories with racial supremacism.
The comingling of black nationalism with intersectional politics has produced a new generation (often of second-generation radicals) that dresses up its racism not only in the lyricism of the old black nationalism of Wright and Baraka, but in the obtuse academic jargon of intersectionality.
Thats where Tamika Mallory and Ta-Nehisi Coates come from. But political word salads and poetry only conceal what you choose not to pay attention to. And thats why were talking about Louis Farrakhan.
The mass of progressive media articles, essays and explainers deployed to protect the Womens March can be summed up as, Stop paying attention. And what were not supposed to be paying attention to is the slow death of liberalism and its substitution by the intolerant tribal extremism of identity politics.
Its why the echo chamber of progressive media has turned against the New York Times editorial page where too many articles questioning identity politics and political censorship have appeared. Bari Weiss and Quinn Norton, articulate young women, are the most immediate targets, but the larger target is James Bennet, the pages gatekeeper, who is unwisely giving liberals a glimpse of where theyre headed.
The remaining liberals still wandering the open plains of a dying ecosystem dont understand that they are becoming extinct. When they endorse vocal identity politics movements, it is because they believe that addressing the grievances of their extremists is a necessary step to a tolerant colorblind society.
They havent grasped that a tolerant multiracial society is the last thing supremacists of any race want.
And the left tells them what they want to hear, that the strident tone of the activists is a momentary phenomenon triggered by their fury at injustice and oppression. Once were all intersectionalized and truthfully reconciled, the pain underlying the appeal of a Farrakhan or a Wright will dissipate.
Its a lie. And they know its a lie.
Intersectionality is a lie. Like the Nation of Islam, its not just a lie in its negative hateful aspects, but in its promise of a utopia once the white devils and their white privilege are out of the way.
Groups of identity politics extremists and their white cishet lefty allies can only be briefly united by the negative, not the positive. The call-out culture meant to spread social justice through the movement isnt just a form of political terror; it fails to reach the innate bigotry of each identity politics group.
The meltdown of the Womens March shows why intersectionality was always a Potemkin Village.
Identity politics movements cant fight bigotry, because they are naturally bigoted. Instead of actually rejecting bigotry, they project it on a convenient target like Trump, and then pretend that by destroying him, they can cleanse society. The more targets they destroy, the more they need to find to maintain an alliance whose only true unifying principle is a mutual denial of each others supremacist bigotries. And so the battle against racism becomes a war against microaggressions and structural white supremacy.
The whole thing is a ticking time bomb. And it keeps going off every few years. When it blows up, lefty activists rush out, as they are doing now, to plead, wheedle and warn that the real enemy is white supremacy and everyone needs to stop paying attention to the racist or sexist views of their own allies.
These rainbow coalitions of racist radicals dont fight bigotry; they mobilize bigots for racial wars.
Tamika Mallory praising Farrakhan isnt shocking. It would be more shocking if she didnt. Its hard to find major black figures in politics and the entertainment industry who dont hang out with him.
Both Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama, the first two serious black presidential candidates, did. The Congressional Black Caucus hosted him. London Mayor Sadiq Khan acted as his lawyer. The list of black entertainers is all but endless. Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube (both members), Michael Jackson, Eddie Murphy, Spike Lee, Arsenio Hall, Common, Kanye West, Mos Def, Young Jeezy and Erykah Badu to name a few.
Not every individual who meets up with Farrakhan necessarily shares all his bigoted views, but many find his tribal affirmation of black superiority appealing and they value that more than they do any kind of tolerant society. Thats what Tamika Mallory, in her own awkward way, was trying to tell us.
Black nationalism is a tribal cause. It will always put its people first. The same is true of the rest of the hodgepodge of political identity groups that form up the intersectional chorus. No amount of calling out will change that. Thats why the calling out is mostly directed at safe targets, preferably white.
There is no larger unity at the end of the rainbow. Only smoother versions of Farrakhan. Barack instead of Baraka. Rants about white devils and satanic Jews filtered through academic jargon.
A movement of bigotries can only divide us. And thats all identity politics has to offer America. Instead of equal rights in a united nation, we will be members of quarreling tribes. And those tribes, like Farrakhans fans, will be incapable of seeing members of other tribes as having the same worth they do.
And people who dont believe that the other has the same worth, wont grant him the same rights.
The left claims that its fighting for equality. What its actually fighting for is a tribal society where the notion of equal rights for all is as alien as it is in Iraq, Rwanda and Afghanistan, where democracy means tribal bloc votes and where the despotism of majority rule invariably ends in terror and death.
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“Why do Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour of the Womens March like Farrakhan and his hate group?”
...because he is anti White and anti Jew, just like the Women’s March.
The nightmare scenario for this tribalists, is for white men to also decide to engage in identity politics, and decide that they value the welfare of the members of THEIR tribe over the welfare of people who hate them.
Globalists promote tribalism as the simplest means of controlling the masses with elitist authority.
More examples of that dangerous ASSumption, an enemy of my enemy is my friend.
I think Mr. Greenfield has overthunked this subject.
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They don’t view it as an inherently dangerous assumption since such a person/group’s long range plan is to eliminate both the enemy and the “enemy of my enemy.” However, things don’t always work out according to plan because of the human factor.
“We are all beautiful (except white people, they are full of, and made of s___),” Amiri Baraka wrote. “The fag’s death they gave us on a cross... they give us to worship a dead jew and not ourselves.”
No wonder they suffer so...and with no end in sight. Life without white people is even more brutal than anything blacks here in America can imagine.
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