Posted on 07/01/2020 3:35:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Today, the nostrum goes, it is not enough for Americans to be not racist. They must be "anti-racist." This woke terminology has infused our lexicon. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), recently declared from the well of the Senate: "Being race-conscious is not enough. It never was. We must be anti-racists." What, pray tell, is the difference between being against racism and being anti-racist? Ibram X. Kendi, author of "How to Be An Antiracist," provides an answer: Racism is no longer to be defined as the belief that someone is inferior based on race. Instead, racism is to be defined as the belief that any group differences can be attributed to anything other than racism. Thus, any system that ends with different outcomes must be racist. Indeed, Kendi contends, "Racism itself is institutional, structural, and systemic."
To be anti-racist means to tear down these systems. Any obstacle in the pursuit of equality of outcome must be torn down, assumed to be a product of discrimination. Basic decency, then, means that we must oppose even institutions that have been considered hallmarks of freedom. Those institutions, after all, have exacerbated inequalities, or at least failed to rectify those inequalities.
This means that America's culture of rights -- a culture that suggests an obligation on the part of individuals to respect the rights of others, even if they disagree -- must come under fire. That culture reinforces hierarchies and inequalities, after all. The classical liberal says that rights fall equally on the just and the unjust alike; the anti-racist suggests that rights are merely tools of power. Anti-racism, in its essence, is merely reworked neo-Marxism from the 1960s: Herbert Marcuse would have been ecstatic to see his concept of "repressive tolerance" -- "intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left" -- revived under the banner of race rather than class.
The self-proclaimed "anti-racist" left -- a left that sees all of human relations reduced to a rudimentary correlation of skin color and inequality, an analysis we used to call racist -- has decided that the culture must be cleansed of all of those who will not be drafted into its woke army. Its march through the institutions began with college campuses, where cowardly administrators quickly caved to the bizarre notion that campuses were unsafe, cruel bastions of bigotry requiring speech codes and training in microaggressions. Next, the woke army moved on to the halls of institutional media, where editors were forced to announce their own white privileges along with their resignations, turning over the instruments of informational dissemination to radical racialists.
Now the woke army has targeted corporations. Corporations are, by nature, risk-averse; they seek merely profit and lack of controversy. The hard left has targeted them as the weakest link in the chain of free speech: If corporations can be bullied into pulling their money from social media networks, those social media networks can be bullied into restricting their free-speech cultures. Remove advertising bucks from Instagram and watch as Instagram censors those the woke want censored.
Indeed, such a campaign is now front and center in the culture wars: Major corporations from Coca-Cola to Target have stopped advertising on social media networks, citing the need for more "hate speech" regulation on those platforms. Obviously, those who target corporations will not be satisfied until all non-woke speech is limited or banned; corporations will be unpleasantly surprised when those they have been seeking to appease turn on them as remnants of the evil system. But corporations have neither the principle nor the will to deny the demands of the loudest and the most militant.
The self-proclaimed "anti-racist" left -- a left that sees all of human relations reduced to a rudimentary correlation of skin color and inequality, an analysis we used to call racist -- has decided that the culture must be cleansed of all of those who will not be drafted into its woke army. Its march through the institutions began with college campuses, where cowardly administrators quickly caved to the bizarre notion that campuses were unsafe, cruel bastions of bigotry requiring speech codes and training in microaggressions. Next, the woke army moved on to the halls of institutional media, where editors were forced to announce their own white privileges along with their resignations, turning over the instruments of informational dissemination to radical racialists.
Now the woke army has targeted corporations. Corporations are, by nature, risk-averse; they seek merely profit and lack of controversy. The hard left has targeted them as the weakest link in the chain of free speech: If corporations can be bullied into pulling their money from social media networks, those social media networks can be bullied into restricting their free-speech cultures. Remove advertising bucks from Instagram and watch as Instagram censors those the woke want censored.
Indeed, such a campaign is now front and center in the culture wars: Major corporations from Coca-Cola to Target have stopped advertising on social media networks, citing the need for more "hate speech" regulation on those platforms. Obviously, those who target corporations will not be satisfied until all non-woke speech is limited or banned; corporations will be unpleasantly surprised when those they have been seeking to appease turn on them as remnants of the evil system. But corporations have neither the principle nor the will to deny the demands of the loudest and the most militant.
This is mental illness.
These leftist scumbags are AntiChristic.
Racism is the narrative to allow the real enemies to take over
Good explanation of the Marxist nature of anti-racism.
Oddly enough, the definition of sexism hasn’t changed.
There it is at long last.
This is the foundation of Marxism/communism/Maoism.
America's (true freedom's) foundation is "equality of opportunity" but the foundation of communism is "equality of outcome."
This social experiment of "equal outcomes" was tried in Jamestown in 1607 and the result was starvation to the point (some say) of cannibalism.
Racism is a pretext for ushering in collectivism where no one can get ahead...where we all must suffer poverty (except, of course, for those who cheat).
What this means in the present context is that the White Man's System, which is systemically racist because it allows the hardworking White men and hard working Black men who are acting White to excel, is replaced with one where the lazy man--the ghetto thug--isn't at a disadvantage.
People who sit on the couches and smoke weed are just as wealthy as people who work hard.
Anti racism is racist to the core
Were the last three paragraphs a test to see who read the article?
Their version of “anti-racism” seems to be that colored people can be as racist as they want and the “racist” is the one who recognizes it.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"And who is it who decides "ability" and "need"?
The government of course...or in the case of the Old South (I am a descendant of the Old South so I can say this), the plantation foreman.
So, I guess we can say that Lizzie Warren and the Democrats want us all to git back over yonder to the New (Old) Plantation.
To Lizzie Warren, Blacks slaves aren't smart enough to be given their freedom. What they really need instead of freedom is to have agitators like Lizzie to take over the plantation and make EVERYONE a slave.
Which is preferable? A lottery which holds out the possibility of millions of dollars to anyone who plays, or one which pays out one cent to everyone on every draw, regardless if they played or not?
Racist -Can't even define what this is.
A new cause to propel the same objective: totalitarian rule. It’s much more convoluted than the “workers of the world unite” because the workers aren’t suffering oppression like they once were. But the goal is still a Marxist revolution that will have the same result. Ultimately all of the pretexts become obscured by the overwhelming power of the state and the equal distribution of suffering. This election will determine the outcome.
Somebody here on FR had a tag-line which went something like:
“Coexistence with the Left is impossible. Stop pretending it can be done”.
It’s becoming more obvious every day.
The language is weaponized only when the majority bend to the weaponized usage.
The language is weaponized only when the majority bend to the weaponized usage.
Boycott the NBA - by the racial profile of its players, it’s obviously racist.
Another reason why it’s offensive and futile to begin any statement with “I’m not racist, but...”
“Anti-something” is always as bad, if not worse, than the “something”. Case in point, “Anti-Fascist”.
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