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Permanent Racism
The American Mind ^ | 04/05/21 | David Azerrad

Posted on 04/05/2021 3:01:15 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort

So long as the Left controls the discourse, it’s going to be racism from here until the eye can see—and beyond. So long as the purported eradication of racism is the priority, the Right will never beat the Left at their own game. The more racist America is, the more urgent the fight against racism, the more exalted are those who fight this scourge (the Left), the more tarnished are those who defend America and its past (the Right). By any objective assessment, systemic racism has long since been eliminated in America. There are no racist laws or policies anywhere on the books, as was the case for much of our history. No one but the most marginal of internet trolls openly calls for white rule. Racism in any historically recognizable form has not existed in America for decades.

In fact, every national institution of any significance is devoted to “diversity,” i.e., helping blacks. Under the guise of “affirmative action,” standards are lowered to admit and promote them. Most importantly, our fellow black citizens have been granted the greatest of privileges: they are absolved of collective moral responsibility for their actions. As the new Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ibram Kendi, likes to say: “there is nothing wrong with black people.” By contrast, entire academic disciplines are devoted to studying everything that is wrong with white people and whiteness. And yet, for the Left, it’s always 1857 and the highest court of the land has just declared that the black man has “no rights which the white man [is] bound to respect.” Racial progress is either emphatically denied, said to be dwarfed by racist progress, or begrudgingly conceded in passing. “We have not ended racial caste in America,” Michelle Alexander writes in her best-selling The New Jim Crow, “we have merely redesigned it.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: left; racism; speech

1 posted on 04/05/2021 3:01:15 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
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To: PoliticallyShort

And Permanent Global Warming


2 posted on 04/05/2021 3:08:51 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: PoliticallyShort

And it’s not simply affirmative action.
The BLM/diversity shakedown industry will end up rerouting BILLIONS of corporate and taxpayer dollars into their own pockets if this continues apace. I.e, reparations without calling it that.


3 posted on 04/05/2021 3:09:56 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: PoliticallyShort

All the more reason to stop it dead in its tracks and don’t play along.


4 posted on 04/05/2021 3:15:27 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SaveFerris

And——😷 don’t forget those. If the democommies keep it up.


5 posted on 04/05/2021 3:17:54 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: PoliticallyShort
The only correct response to the accusation "You're a racist" is "Go to hell. I don't give a damn about your opinions".

If you take the bait, then there is no avoiding being painted as a racist, and being compelled to offer atonement.

6 posted on 04/05/2021 3:22:45 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Can you (or anyone) define “racism”?


7 posted on 04/05/2021 3:25:27 PM PDT by Jim Noble (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: PapaBear3625

The reply to “you’re a racist” should be a field expedient eye test.

“How many fingers am I holding up?”


8 posted on 04/05/2021 3:26:55 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: PoliticallyShort

The Left has gone full Apartheid, and as a result we can start nuking their positions with slam-dunk 14th Amendment lawsuits.

We’ll be filing one soon to get this party started.


9 posted on 04/05/2021 3:34:21 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: PoliticallyShort

The way the Left frames racism is racist.

“It’snot racism when ‘we’ do it!”


10 posted on 04/05/2021 3:41:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: PoliticallyShort

The people allegedly fighting racism are racists. Every last oen of them.

Antiracism is racist. Antiracists are racist. Every last one of them.

All racism in our history has to do with Democrats and progressives. All of it.

From slavery to the Trail of Tears to to lynchings to the KKK to segregation ot lynchings to interning Germans and Japanese to ghettoes and barrios to “white privilege”, every bit of it was conceived and carried out by progressive Democrats. ALL of it.

Robin DiAngelo is a racist. Ibram X. Kendi is a racist. Joe Biden is a racist. They’re ALL racists. If they deny it, they’re racist liars.


11 posted on 04/05/2021 3:49:06 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters. )
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"Racial justice also demands a proportional distribution of wealth." "How else will we close the black-white wealth gap? BLM calls for a “progressive restructuring of tax codes at the local, state, and federal level to ensure a radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth.” "Racially-conscious expropriation would be another way to describe it."

Tax credits.? Give them tax credits??? (snort)

12 posted on 04/05/2021 4:02:14 PM PDT by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Every night on the evening news no matter
which one you watch there’s usually story
featuring race in one way or another.

By the same token a segment with someone
in tears. Real tears to be sure, but sobbing
just the same.

And maybe a corrupt politician usually a
Republican and if not party affiliation
is not named.

Did you see someone sobbing on the news
this evening? Was there a story involving
race?


13 posted on 04/05/2021 5:31:29 PM PDT by StACase (CO2 is NOT a Problem)
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To: SaveFerris

All of these causes are just tools to destroy the US and implement communism.


14 posted on 04/05/2021 5:48:28 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Psalm 8:9)
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To: PoliticallyShort
“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, 1911

There's money to be made in perpetuating racism.

15 posted on 04/05/2021 5:58:43 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (It seems the soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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To: PapaBear3625; All

We just ignore all this crap and mind our own business.


16 posted on 04/05/2021 6:02:03 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: SaveFerris; All
".... Permanent Racism...."

".... And Permanent Global Warming...."

And most currently, continuing Permanent Covid-19.

All three of these are classic examples of the democRATS methods of keeping a "crisis they can't let go to waste" going on forever so they play them and milk them for all they're worth.

The democRATS will keep stretching out the mask mandates and lockdowns into the future so they can maintain their control and manipulation over the population.

Currently, they are playing the "vaccine" card to keep their fear mongering going as long as possible. Don't expect the covid restrictions and vaccine requirements to ease up any time soon.

Now they are talking about booster shots every year for the vaccine. The democRATS will play this long con as long as they can. It is their modus operandi.

Take it to the bank.

17 posted on 04/05/2021 7:49:53 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Jim Noble
Can you (or anyone) define "racism"?

I was never good enough but I admire all the great racists. Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon, the Busch brothers and the late great Earnhardt. Why are people on their case when they're just driving around in circles at their own risk?

NASCAR

18 posted on 04/07/2021 7:59:50 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Fortunately despite aging I've been spared the ravages of maturity.)
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