Posted on 06/05/2023 4:29:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
All of a sudden, the obsession with whites as a Satanic collective has become a national fad.
One of the tenets of the early civil rights movement some 65 years ago was ending racial stereotyping.
When Martin Luther King, Jr. called for emphasizing the “content of our character” over “the color of our skin,” the subtext was “stop judging people as a faceless collective on the basis of their superficial appearance and instead look to them as individuals with unique characters.”
It is tragic that King’s plea for an integrated, assimilated society, in which race became incidental, not essential to our personas, has mostly been abandoned by the Left in favor of racial stereotyping, collective guilting, and scapegoating by race and gender.
Indeed, many of the old Confederate pathologies—fixation on racial essence, obsession with genealogy, nullification of federal laws, states’ rights, and segregated spaces and ceremonies—are now rehabilitated by woke activists.
In that larger landscape, the collective adjective and noun “white” now has also been redefined and mainstreamed as a pejorative to the point of banality.
“White” followed by a string of subsequent oppressive nouns—“rage,” “supremacy,” “privilege”—has become a twitch on campus. Diversity, equity, and inclusion deans and provosts cannot write a memo, issue a communique, or sign a directive without a reference to “white” something or other.
Like the mysterious omnipresence of transgenderism in popular culture, all of a sudden, the obsession with whites as a Satanic collective has become a national fad—a pet-rock or hula-hoop-like collective madness.
Yet such an addiction remains bizarre in a variety of ways. Millions in the present are now to be libeled as oppressors by the contemporary self-described oppressed—supposedly for what some whites who are mostly now dead once did to now mostly dead others.
Yet what does “white” really mean anymore?
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It’s not an obsession, it’s not a fad, it’s not a pandemic.
It’s the left’s agenda of trying to win over blacks and minorities and women and the LGBTQ+ crowd.
Anything they can do to win over those people, will (hopefully) win them over at election time. It’s pandering and placating for the purpose of getting their agenda incorporated into the mindset of Americans and others around the world.
Democrats and most leftist don’t believe that ‘whiteness’ is evil, but they’re willing to do anything that could further their agenda in the end. To them, the end justifies the means.
This post in memory of whites in commercials.
BTTT
The controversial City University of New York firebrand and graduation speaker Fatima Mousa Mohammed recently railed against capitalism, Zionism, Israel—and, of course, “white supremacy.” Yet she herself is whiter than white. She is now an elite with a law degree. Is she then a beneficiary of “white privilege”? Or do her radical politics trump skin color and earn her exemption?
Is a snarly, divisive Joe Biden, barking at the moon about “ultra-MAGA” and “semi-fascist” white monsters, then, not a purveyor and beneficiary of white supremacy by virtue of his woke politics?
Indeed, some of the most severe critics of “white privilege” and “white rage” are themselves ensconced in white neighborhoods, such as the Duchess of Sussex or LeBron James. When Oprah Winfrey damns white supremacy in graduation speeches, is her subtext a snarl at her fellow billionaire neighbors in Montecito?
Another excellent essay from Prof Hanson!
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“Yet what does “white” really mean anymore?”
Depending on the context, it means “not Leftist”, “insufficiently Leftist”, or “interfering with the plans of the Inner Party”.
Oh there’s still Whites in tv commercials.......it’s just all White women in relationships with black men.
America’s “elites,” no matter what their race, are destroying the country. They must be stopped before it’s too late.
If white men are so terrible, why are so many of them elected to office by Democrats?
Biden is their choice. White. Old. Man. with Racist background.
Does reading this make me a racist.??
The attack on Whites, particularly White Males, is a component of their attack on Western Civilization in general.
That includes the attack on the Judeo-Christian ethic and Chivalry.
Those are the things that historically have kept the Evil Ones in check.
Add me please? VDH?
Thx. ;-)
Dying over here.
One of the facets of Dr. Hanson’s stye is is employment of the Socratic method to foster knowledge rather than just telling us how it is.
I’ll bet if you took his lectures and broke them down by punctuation marks in his work, and compared them to other authors of like work both on the Left and the Right, I would wager that his work would have a greater percentage of question marks than any other.
Asking the question provokes the reader to answer it for themselves, and is quite a different way of discovering and disseminating the truth than is the method employed by sophists (using the non-complimentary description of the word which implies clever and/or skillful dishonesty in arguing a point) who are found everywhere from the Republican halls of Congress to the pages of Democratic Underground and even (or often!) on Free Republic.
Almost all of us are sophists in a given situation, which is why I enjoy reading Dr. Hanson’s work, as he employs that tactic less frequently.
I wonder why I have this sudden compulsion to reread the Turner Diaries..?
Actually you will find white men on commercials but they usually play the part of a doofus.
“The issue is never the issue”
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