Posted on 09/22/2017 6:18:09 AM PDT by pgkdan
Does the political left — which dominates the mainstream media, Hollywood, academia and the Democratic Party — really believe its ubiquitous charges of racism against conservatives, or are they a sick ploy to discredit, ruin and defeat its political opponents?
During President Obama’s tenure, a conservative could hardly oppose Obama on policy grounds without being accused of racism. It didn’t matter that conservatives had fought Hillary Clinton’s health care plan in the ‘90s because they opposed socialized medicine. It didn’t matter that they had opposed Bill Clinton’s tax hikes. Their opposition to Obamacare and Obama’s proposed tax increases had to be motivated by race.
If you repeat an absurd claim often enough, it becomes believable to some people. And the left has been hammering away so long against the supposed racism of political conservatives that many people, hordes of whom know better and multitudes of millennial political neophytes who apparently don’t, have bought into this toxicity.
I have always assumed that one of the main reasons racism is sinful is that it involves judging people and discriminating against them not on the basis of their individual character or behavior but on their group identity. Among other things, this robs people of their human dignity and equal worth as being created in God’s image.
It is noteworthy that the left — in its categorical condemnation of conservatives as racists — engages in the very type of discriminatory judgment it decries, i.e., says conservatives are racist because the policies they support allegedly hurt minorities.
But conservatives reject that their policies hurt minorities. We think history has shown that they help all people and that liberal policies are consistently destructive. Moreover, our policies, by definition, aspire to colorblindness. We believe in equality of opportunity for all and oppose policies tailored to race in application or result.
Conversely, policies driven by identity politics perpetuate tensions among different races. The damage done to race relations by an entire political wing bearing false witness against the other on race is incalculable. Can you imagine, for example, the harm that would befall my children and others if I poisoned them daily with the lie that certain people hate them?
It would be easier to understand this insanity if it could be explained simply by the left’s cynical desire to exploit race for political gain. After all, liberals’ constant agitation of minorities, with their 24/7 crusade against conservatives as racist, has to be primarily responsible for blacks’ disproportionate support for the Democratic Party when the latter’s policies have demonstrably harmed the plight of blacks.
But there seems to be something even more disturbing at play in this nonstop leftist slander. Look at the kind of poison emanating from universities throughout the United States.
Witness the recent brouhaha over a jointly penned op-ed by two law professors (Amy Wax of the University of Pennsylvania and Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego) who suggested, essentially, that America’s decline can be traced to a rejection of traditional values (or, in the authors’ words, “the breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture”) and advocated a return to those values.
The professors argued that America did better when we had traditional values and therefore should return to this “cultural script”: “Get married before you have children and strive to stay married for their sake. Get the education you need for gainful employment, work hard, and avoid idleness. Go the extra mile for your employer or client. Be a patriot, ready to serve the country. Be neighborly, civic-minded, and charitable. Avoid coarse language in public. Be respectful of authority. Eschew substance abuse and crime.”
Significantly, the authors were careful to note that these “basic cultural precepts … could be followed by people of all backgrounds and abilities.” That is, the benefits of these values and practices transcend race.
Precisely on cue, however, leftist robot — aka University of Pennsylvania Law School dean — Ted Ruger charged to the student newspaper with an op-ed denouncing Wax’s piece as divisive and noxious and rejecting “emphatically … that a single cultural tradition is better than all others.” Charges subsequently poured in from faculty members, students and alumni accusing Wax of white supremacy, misogyny and homophobia. Some demanded that she be barred from teaching first-year law courses.
Alexander experienced a similar backlash when University of San Diego School of Law Dean Stephen Ferruolo disseminated a schoolwide memo denouncing the piece, as well.
Regrettably, the left, in academia and elsewhere, increasingly equates traditional values (and political conservatism) with white supremacy. The norms that were formerly accepted almost universally are not just under systematic assault but also being indicted as racist.
Let me ask you sincerely: Do people really believe that these innocuous notions of hard work, virtue, marriage, respect, friendship, civic-mindedness, charity and patriotism are unique to certain races or groups of people? That they are not constructive goals for individuals, groups and the nation? That they are somehow rooted in bigotry of any kind?
The answer has to be “yes.” Some really believe this nonsense, which means the left’s propagation of these ideas is more than just a calculated ploy for power. And that’s probably more alarming, because it means it is more deep-seated.
These corrosive ideas must be fought in the most aggressive terms. We simply won’t be able to return this nation and its people to greatness, much less make strides in racial harmony, if we can’t even try to improve ourselves without being accused of racism.
If we think we can ignore these cockeyed ideas as fringe and insignificant, then we are in denial. They are everywhere; they’re no longer the stuff of radical anecdotes.
We’d better wake up — and stand up for the things we believe in, lest their very advocacy convict us soon of hate crimes warranting societal censure. At the risk of being falsely accused of white supremacy, may I suggest that we all become more civic-minded and charitable and promote the time-tested traditions that have made this nation great and that are designed to improve the lot of all people, irrespective of race, creed, ethnicity or gender?
We’d better wake up — and stand up for the things we believe in, lest their very advocacy convict us soon of hate crimes warranting societal censure. At the risk of being falsely accused of white supremacy, may I suggest that we all become more civic-minded and charitable and promote the time-tested traditions that have made this nation great and that are designed to improve the lot of all people, irrespective of race, creed, ethnicity or gender?
He's right...we'd better wake up. Too many people laugh off these attacks on our culture as just more evidence of how looney the left is. They are looney but they're also determined, aggressive and now violent.
Unfortunately, it is well nigh impossible to retrieve the values and behaviors that provided America’s past stability and greatness. The horse got of the barn when American courts decided for the abolition of single-sex marriage, inconsistent immigration policy, suppression of religion belief and rights etc. Once lost, those things cannot be retrieved and honored with the universality they once were.
If you’ve had University schooling this isn’t anything new, they have been pretty forthright about the worldview. It goes back to what was called the Frankfurt School, a communist thinktank in Germany. They were kicked out and set up shop in America, at Columbia and elsewhere. They’ve been wildly successful. This was the “Thank You” that Americans received - a blueprint for American deconstruction. Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer et al were the architects of “Critical Theory” and deconstruction of western civilization.
Study this, and you’ll understand exactly what has been going on for many decades in this country. When the Soviets were still around they funded a lot of subversion as well. Then the weed seeds of our destruction as it were, were planted as the education system was subverted, the “long march” through the institutions, and now the inmates have embedded themselves like tics in the organizations that ostensibly should be rooting them out. For example, it appears the FBI was in the business of covering up Clintons numerous crimes and felonies, while they and the intelligence apparatus have been spying on Americans and political candidates.
The older I get, the more I like ‘white supremacy,’ ‘white privilege’ and ‘patriarchy.’
Because everything else seems to be a pile of perverse, diseased BS.
If you repeat an absurd claim often enough, it becomes believable.
Sounds almost like somthing out of the boys from Pinocchio that turned into donkeys
Overuse of the term “racism” is devaluing its influence. It’s being applied to more subjects in increasingly non-sequitur ways, showing that those using it don’t know what it means. (Consider the recent flap about Hobby Lobby selling tufts of dried cotton plants as decoration: everyone wears cotton, the plant is naturally prolific in the South - calling decorative display of the plant “racist” is preposterous; worse examples abound but are so deranged I can’t remember them.) Overuse is culminating in the increased ironic accusation “you’re a white male - therefore you are irredeemably racist & sexist”. A term overused into meaninglessness becomes impotent and ignored.
I’m listening to a history of the Haitian Revolution. Racism was a _huge_ issue there. Interestingly, when France (controlling the territory) absolutely declared total racial equality of all, forbidding any distinction based on color, and completely emancipated all slaves, the response of the recently-freed “coloreds” was to ... rebel and re-impose abject distinctions & classification of blacks, coloreds, and whites. why? to preserve their own relative power vs those who had been enslaved and were now equals, and to empower the slave owners to keep things that way.
I think we’re seeing something similar today: having achieved total legal equality (even advantage, per “affirmative action” laws), and practical social equality (so little of the population is “racist” that SJWs have to actively seek out “microaggressions”), those who enjoyed their socioeconomic status based on racial stratification are desperate to preserve it and do so by telling one group how horribly oppressed they are, and another how horribly oppressive they are, in ways that encourage them to in fact act that way as a matter of self-preservation.
(BTW: we see where Haiti ended up after all that inter-racial struggle ended. Not good.)
So, to the left’s way of thinking, if you believe black people can be virtuous, you are racist?
The Monkey’s Uncle
Annette Funicello and The Beach Boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFhO9FIrAA
Conservatives all the way up to Rush Limbaugh have set their own trap by substituting the term “Christian Values” with the worthless term “Conservative Values”.
Then why is it done in the bible? There are countless instances of division by demographic (and doctrine) in the bible.
Flip side: the new values are ‘whites are the devil’
Most definitely and certainly YES. These are now whitestream values. Remember not too long ago the "Marriage is for white people" comment by that inner city black kid?
These people believe the American Dream is only available for white people. And so they foul their own nests as they distance themselves from any success or personal acheivements.
In the mind of the leftist, yes. White = Christian = hated.
“There are only two races: the decent and the indecent.” —Viktor Frankl
Yes. Antifa is but one group.
Yup.
I'm almost 74 and I've watched as ghetto culture has invaded more and more of our civilized society.
These are communists. Disgusting.
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