VDH: Crack-ups at the Crossroads of Intersectionality

American Greatness ^ | 6-23-2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Sir Napsalot]

P rogressives do not see the United States as an exceptional uniter of factions and tribes into a cohesive whole—each citizen subordinating his tribal, ethnic, and religious affinities to a shared Americanism, emblemized by our national motto e pluribus Unum. Instead, they prefer e uno plures: out of one nation arise many innately different and separate peoples.

Progressivism’s signature brand is now tribalism: all of us in different ways are victims of a white male Christian heterosexual patriarchy—or a current 20 percent hierarchy that past and present has supposedly oppressed anyone not like themselves. In contrast, our differences define who we are, and are not incidental to the content of our characters. The salad bowl, not the melting pot, is the new national creed. America is to be a conglomeration of competing tribal parties in the fashion of the Balkans, Rwanda, or contemporary Iraq.

[Sir Napsalot]

And it only gets better from there. You know you want to read it all, it is from Victor Davis Hanson.

[PGalt]

Great article by VDH. The coalition of collectives will be after him soon enough.

[FreedomPoster]

Based on modern Leftist actions and dogma, E Pluribus Unum is dead, garbage from old white men.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

VDH is almost as funny as Mark Steyn in a droll sort of way. Just the title of this essay makes you want to read more. His "intersection" metaphor, playing off the ridiculous "intersectionalism," cracks me up:

Good-ole gaffe-prone Uncle Joe Biden, 76 and time-tested liberal, can’t make it through the roundabout of intersectionality without a major crack-up. He flipped upside down to assure primary progressive media and primary kingmakers that he was once wrong about cutting off Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings three decades ago...

"Can't make it through the roundabout of intersectionality" - LOL.
"He flipped upside down" - LOLOL.
He "cut her off" - LOLOLOL.

[posterchild]

I see this on another blog as well, one which does not attribute it to VDH. Did he write this for amgreatness.com or was it lifted from another source?

[ClearCase_guy]

The postmodern Left doesn’t really care about Truth.
They care about Feelings.

I’m all done with the racism, sexism crap.
I feel the way I feel. I’m sure the Left respects that.

I no longer make any apology or excuses for anything in that arena. Racism is a boring topic and I don’t discuss it. I don’t care how anyone feels on that topic — I guess they are entitled to their feelings, but I just don’t care.

[I want the USA back]

Did “e pluribus unum” ever work? We now have e pluribus excrementum.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Well, at least no one ever needs to wonder how Germany of the 1930’s happened. The one common denominator is the ostracization of straight white males.

When the socialists come into power in America, it would happen as quickly here as it happened in Germany...except that white males are armed here and Jews weren’t there. That’ll slow it down some.

[bitt]

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[Sir Napsalot]

I don’t know about that. Can you remember the other source?

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> Did “e pluribus unum” ever work?

When the country faces great outside threat, yes, it did work. Multiple times.

However, the current crisis is that barbarians are inside the gate amongst our midst.

[TADSLOS]

Did “e pluribus unum” ever work?

It did in Blazing Saddles. Even with the Irish...

[dead]

Great, fun read.

[Billthedrill]

And yet despite the authenticity of Harris, she, like Joe Biden, is reckless: she was a loud megaphone for reparations until her obviously embarrassed father, who is apparently proud of past parental efforts to ensure that Harris successfully assimilated and integrated into the dominant culture, reminded his daughter that their shared ancestry included Jamaican slave-owners: in effect, schooling Kamala that the Harrises would have to seek reparations for the descendent Harrises from the descendants of the Harrises.

I missed that one. It's hilarious.

I've yet to meet an intersectionalist social justice warrior who has thought the thing through. If, in fact, one's political rights depend on how many oppressed classes in which one can claim membership, the logical conclusion is what we've known all along: that the only proper repository of political rights is within the individual citizen, not any class. Intersectional calculus of oppression falls instantly like the stack of cards that it is. If you split that hair fine enough what you always end up with is a class whose membership comprises precisely one.

[dead]

I'm not sure who first pointed out that the move away from the American "melting pot" was initially popularized by NYC Mayor David Dinkins, who always spoke instead of the "gorgeous mosiac" - the analogy where each individual piece is cobbled together but stubbornly retains its sharp edges and characteristics.

Of course, what works with tiles doesn't work as well when building civilizations - where "balkanization", and it's inevitable breakdown into tribal violence, is the norm.

[posterchild]

Nevermind.

https://ussanews.com/News1/2019/06/23/crack-ups-at-the-crossroads-of-intersectionality/

I just noticed the credit at the bottom along with a link to amgreatness.com

[Mariner]

“Did “e pluribus unum” ever work? We now have e pluribus excrementum.”

Generally and historically speaking, no. Not really.

There have been cases in large empires where MANY races and religions co-existed (Rome, Astro-Hungarian, British, Soviet, American etc.), but never in true harmony.

And never has it facilitated a transition of the entire power structure from one race to another.

The norm is for one race to kill and/or subjugate another. That’s the way humans are wired.

It’s essentially a situation of being top dog, or being dead.

What do you want to be?

[YogicCowboy]

e uno plures = divided we fall.

Which is exactly what they want.