Posted on 07/31/2019 3:46:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Years ago, it was hard to be a racist. You had to be fitted for and spend money on a white gown and don a pointy hat. You celebrated racism by getting some burlap, wrapping it around a cross, setting it ablaze and dancing around it carrying torches. Sometimes, as did Lester Maddox, you had to buy axe handles for yourself and your supporters to wield to forcibly turn away black customers from your restaurant. Or, as in the case of Theophilus "Bull" Connor, you had to learn to direct fire hoses and vicious police attack dogs against civil rights demonstrators.
Younger racists, along with their parents, had to memorize poems for whenever a black student showed up for admission to their high school or college. For example, "Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate!" Of course, there were a host of racial slurs and epithets that could be hurled, with impunity, at any black person in your presence. In earlier times, you didn't have to be sophisticated, but it took a bit of work, to be a racist.
Today, all that has changed. To be a racist today takes little effort. For example, one can sit back in his easy chair and declare that he's for across-the-board tax cuts. That makes you a racist. If you don't believe me, think back to 1994 when the Republican-led Congress pushed for a tax-cut measure. Former U.S. House of Representatives member Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., denouncing the Republicans' plan before a Manhattan audience as a form of modern-day racism said: "It's not 'spic' or 'n-----' anymore. (Instead,) they say, 'Let's cut taxes.'" A few months later, he compared the GOP's "Contract with America" to measures in Nazi Germany saying, "Hitler wasn't even talking about doing these things."
One can be labeled a racist through a set of "microaggressions" listed in "Diversity in the Classroom, UCLA Diversity & Faculty Development" from 2014.
Here are a few statements one should avoid: "You are a credit to your race." "Wow! How did you become so good in math?" "There is only one race, the human race." "I'm not racist. I have several Black friends." "As a woman, I know what you go through as a racial minority."
But most instances of microaggressions are less overt. There are college microaggressions such as a male student rolling his eyes when a female student speaks, or people not wanting to be in study groups with those of different races.
Perhaps the easiest way to be labeled a racist is to suggest that a wall be built on our border with Mexico in order to keep people from Mexico and points south from entering our nation illegally. Also, a slam-dunk charge of racism is to say that the standard practice of separating children from parents is Nazi-like. But imagine you are stopped with your child in the car and charged with a DUI in any of our 50 states. You're going to be arrested and your child taken to protective child services. The identical practice on our southern border becomes racism.
One can be labeled a racist through a set of "microaggressions" listed in "Diversity in the Classroom, UCLA Diversity & Faculty Development" from 2014.
Here are a few statements one should avoid: "You are a credit to your race." "Wow! How did you become so good in math?" "There is only one race, the human race ." "I'm not racist. I have several Black friends." "As a woman, I know what you go through as a racial minority."
But most instances of microaggressions are less overt. There are college microaggressions such as a male student rolling his eyes when a female student speaks, or people not wanting to be in study groups with those of different races.
Perhaps the easiest way to be labeled a racist is to suggest that a wall be built on our border with Mexico in order to keep people from Mexico and points south from entering our nation illegally. Also, a slam-dunk charge of racism is to say that the standard practice of separating children from parents is Nazi-like. But imagine you are stopped with your child in the car and charged with a DUI in any of our 50 states. You're going to be arrested and your child taken to protective child services. The identical practice on our southern border becomes racism.
Unfortunately being human these days is being a liberal politically correct racist, so I avoid calling myself human nowadays. My lack of thyroid helps me avoid the nasty human habit pitfalls such as the obsession on framing insult on sex organs or lack thereof. It is ridiculous when one thinks about it to the point that people are not particularly racist. People’s problem is general judgmentalism around a need to oversex the other. Race is only a print of the result of that overseeing the other.
My dog is calling me a racist and threatening legal action because I called him a chocolate lab.
What Mr. Williams fails to state, or perhaps even realize, is the coming reaction to all these “racism” accusations. So long as these spurious accusations of “racism” continue without any loud, public condemnation from within the black “community”, it won’t be long before everything that blacks have to say will be viewed with ambivalence.
You can only cry “Wolf!” so often.
I like your sense of humor.
The simplest way of being a racist is to disagree with an idea from any living democrat.
I called mine a brown bitch and now she’s sending complaint email to AOC.
Yeah, I’m thanking the lord mine is a male or I really would be screwed.
Thinking I really should have got that male white German Shepard after all because nobody cares what happens to them
I’ve begun starting every opinion statement with the phrase, As a woman of color..... I’m now bulletproof
Chocolate? Well, as long as you didn't try eating him I suppose ....
Sounds like a popular dessert in Seoul.
I just want to know what kind of ancient alien is holding the sign in that picture.
I just want to know what kind of ancient alien is holding the sign in that picture.
bump
There are far worse things in the world than “racism”.
Be a man. Be Caucasian = Racist.
Nasty!
He needs to shave his chest hair, and put a colorful tattoo on his thorax.
The hairy, pasty, naked look is not working for him.
That’s an awful shirt
You can only cry “Wolf!” so often.
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Very good point. A great addition to a splendid column by Williams.
Not quite. Add lesbian and you will be as indestructible as a cockroach.
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