Woke Racism

American Greatness ^ | 28 July 2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Rummyfan]

Well before Sigmund Freud formalized the idea of “projectionism”—the defense of one’s own shortcomings and sins by attributing them to others—it was a common theme in classical literature and the New Testament: the ridiculing of the mole on someone else’s nose to hide one’s own boil.

The term projection more or less sums up much of the woke identity politics movement, in which obsessions with racial privilege and tribal exceptionalism are justified by accusing others of just such bias.

While such racist projectionism can often be a psychological tic that assuages the guilt of one’s own rank prejudice, just as often accusing others of racism is a peremptory careerist move to win media attention, lucre, or job advancement.

Racists—those who assume those of different races always act collectively in predictable ways, usually far worse than does their own tribe—who charge racism assume that unlike the proverbial wolf crier, there is currently no downside to their hysterias and fantasies.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Trump ought to order the IRS to collect the $4.2 million that Sharpton owes in back taxes.

[NonValueAdded]

“Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?”

[Liz]

H/T gov_bean_ counter------"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."
<><>Booker T. Washington<><>

[wjcsux]

Booker T. Washington would be branded as a racist in today’s world.