Posted on 07/09/2021 10:39:00 AM PDT by Heartlander
Wokeness may be the most absurd, harebrained concept foisted on the American public in our lifetimes. Consider just a few of the actions taken and claims made by proponents of this inane philosophy. Graduate students at Oxford University recently voted to remove a photograph of Queen Elizabeth from a campus common area. The movement was led by an American exchange student, the privileged son of a wealthy Washington, D.C., attorney. This should surprise no one since many proponents of wokeness are white, pampered, mansion-dwelling dilettantes.
These thoroughly indoctrinated students claimed they were protesting Britain’s colonial history. One wonders if they even know their country’s history. After all, were it not for stalwarts like Queen Elizabeth and her predecessors, the British people — including these woke graduate students — would be shouting “Sieg Heil” instead of “God Save the Queen.”
In the United States, woke advocates propose, among other things, the government confiscate all wealth and property and redistribute it according to race. Another claim of the woke crowd is America suffers from systemic racism. Their critical race theory posits white people in America have used and continue to use laws, policies, regulations and societal mores to oppress people of color while ensuring a superior position in society for white people.
Of course, those who make these assertions have trouble explaining a few inconvenient facts, including that America:
Those of us who thought the woke crowd reached the zenith of absurdity with its claims of systemic racism were wrong. We should have known better. An even more off-the-wall claim was recently made in an article published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The article claims “whiteness” is a “malignant, parasitic-like condition” causing those afflicted with it to have “voracious, insatiable, and perverse appetites.” This supposed malady causes those who have it to target nonwhite people for nefarious purposes. In other words, whiteness is a mental illness.
While it is tempting to simply ignore this article as just another example of the senseless drivel passing for scholarship these days, we should note the Journal of the APA supposedly accepts only peer-reviewed articles. This means the article in question had to be reviewed and approved by a panel of the author’s professional peers. Therefore, the author is not some lone voice crying in the wilderness; others in his profession apparently agree with him. If so, this raises some interesting questions. Is the article the result of actual research or biased supposition? Does the article represent true science, or is it pseudo-science masquerading as scholarship? Did the author’s peers really agree with him, or has the APA been so afflicted with wokeness they were afraid to disagree?
Interestingly but not surprisingly, the article claims whiteness can be treated but not cured. In other words, being white makes you the perfect patient for psychoanalysis professionals. They can treat and bill you forever without any expectation of curing you. A convenient diagnosis, is it not? If whiteness is indeed a treatable but incurable malady, business is looking up for the psychoanalysis industry. But this article makes one wonder if it’s the psychoanalyst rather than the patient who should be on the couch.
I miss Bernie on O’reily show. Actually, I miss O’reily too.
***is the only nation in the world to have an Emancipation Proclamation***
Mexico freed it’s slaves in 1829. Yet forty five years later you could still buy an Indian to be a slave, and slave catchers were slipping into the US to capture Indians for sale in Mexico.
How do you “protest history”? History is in the past and “protesting” won’t change a thing.
I don’t. :)
Although, compared to the rest fox Newz commentators, in hindsight, he wasn’t the worst.
As a good and loyal democrat if Obama was a Jr senior iduring the 60s would he have voted againt Civil Rights bill?
Bkmk
I don’t. Two O’Gasbags.
What is happening in today’s post-Chinese cooties America is the direct result of too many people having too little to do and finding no real purpose to their empty lives ... so they fabricate a crisis and — voila! — their lives suddenly have meaning ... they have a purpose in life, and it doesn’t matter that that purpose is harmful, destructive, counterproductive ... whatever ... it’s a “purpose” which is all that matters to them.
BLM, CRT, Wokeism, etc. are indicative not of inequities in society, but of the reduction in those inequities.
It’s called the “Tocqueville Paradox” — the greater the inequity, the less the disadvantaged party can complain or act upon that inequity. However, as inequities decline, the formerly disadvantaged party not only resents any lingering inequities but has the power to act upon them.
There has never been less gender, sexuality, or racial discrimination in this country, but the remaining, albeit lessening, distinct outcomes of these various groups leads them to believe those distinctions are greater than ever.
As ever, Tocqueville got it.
One very strange thing I keep seeing is the liberals say that the parties switched. The Democrats the party of Jim Crow is actually the Republican Party. One version of this is while Lincoln was a Republican by 1880 the people in the South that voted for Jim Crow laws were not real Democrats. The other scenario is that Blacks switched parties in the Hoover era and then FDR brought hope and change.
They have to lie to hide the Democrats racist past.
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