The Joy of Intersectionality

American Thinker ^ | 27 Oct, 2024 | Judy Wallen

[MtnClimber]

How did we get to our current state of racial madness in America?

In 1958, the Rodgers and Hammerstein movie musical South Pacific was released, seasoned with what were at that time bold reflections on race. The musical included the song “Carefully Taught,” with the lyrics “you’ve got to be taught before it’s too late ... to hate all the people your relatives hate.” Implicit was the idea that racism, not anti-racism, was the artificial social construct that would struggle to survive human nature, common sense, and decency.

As the next half-century would confirm, related ideas such as colorblindness, content of character, the emphasis on the individual over the group would successfully minimize racial prejudice. What appeared to many to be the triumphant culmination of racial progress with the 2008 election of Obama, which even Obama’s political adversaries found consolation in, would instead be the high watermark for racial relations, an inflection point at which a new racialism, utterly inconceivable at the time, would arise to divide, distract, and divert the country into a fundamental transformation of America.

The cathartic victory over historical demons was a unifying opportunity in an already divided country to celebrate racial harmony and remain attentive to its upkeep. Yet Obama and the left decided to use this consensus over the inhumanity of racism as the basis for a new racialism. There were the many supporters who would benefit or all the fawning liberals terrified at being called a racist while rejoicing in calling someone else racist. There were the arrogance and intolerance from a thin-skinned theoretician who had little experience in the tradeoffs and complexities when attempting to solve real-world problems. There was the discovery of a largely uniform unaccountable media establishment and shadowy government eager to protect with lies powers far exceeding levels...

[MtnClimber]

Yep, 0bama used Saul Alinsky community organizing tactics to throw gasoline on race relations and then lit the match.

[linMcHlp]

The Joy of Setting the World Temperature

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[MtnClimber]

There was the rapidly fading dream that economic inequality could foment enough hatred necessary for an American Marxism to be restored, with a manufactured inequality and grievance problem that would beckon for that authoritarian solution leftists have always audaciously hoped for. So Obama snatched that race card just in time, before it fell into history’s dustbin.

[Secret Agent Man]

For the left, what fun is it to have the race card, but never play it? Where is the divide and conquer dividend?