Leftists, in their long march through America’s institutions, have used the concept of “Race” and honed it into the fine-art of Balkinizing America in ways to make the KKK green with envy. While Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders rightfully pushed for their seat at the table of America’s Constitutional rights, the Left seized the opportunity to push an agenda of aggrieved identity politics. Are you in the Lefts group-du-jour to be fetishized, romanced, promised all sorts of goodies? Human nature being what it is, most people will jump on that train for the freebies.
And here we are, with Leftists pushing such absurdities as microaggression, white privilege, unconscious racism. Anything to keep the rage (and political benefits) going.
A couple of years ago, I wrote an article about Rachel Dolezal. Well, the piece doesn’t actually mention Dolezal, but it does explain her. As Christian Adams points out, Dolezal’s case is far from isolated. Other activist leftists have tried to pose as racial minorities. But as I argued in 2013 in “The Wannabe Oppressed,” today’s campus climate activists, if only half-realizeing it, are actually trying to turn themselves into oppressed southern blacks from the 1950s. As I show in that piece, Bill McKibben, leader of the climate movement, even went through a brief Dolezal-like episode during his college years. Hans Fiene’s argument that “Selma envy” is driving the attacks on Christian religious freedom is a variation on the “wannabe oppressed” idea. We’ve raised a generation that thirsts for the sainthood conferred by racial oppression. Being well-off and free mustn’t be allowed to stand in the way. Ultimately, this is a question of religion, of needing a crusade to substitute for all that our increasingly secular millennials have lost.
“Race” is a myth, a true social construct that turns modern civilization on its head with its elevation of tribal groups over individual humans.
Enough.
We need one of those cult deprogrammers to go nationwide. Maybe even get one of them reality shows.
if everyone worried as much about their checking account balance as their fucking race, people would be much more mindful of their checking account balance than they are at present
proggtardia is a “social construct” fer shizzle
Almost a new record. Not only utterly nonsensical, reaching as total a lack of actual content-per-word as anything published by an ad writer, but also a tautology: “If things were different, they wouldn’t be the same”.
Go away.
Well, if sainthood is conferred only by group membership and not by the individual cultivation of virtue, everyone’s going to beat a hasty path to the group.
#CheapGrace
Just don’t miss #AskRachel, wherein black folks present a black authenticity quiz with hilarious results.
What does it say about ‘racial inequalities’ when people will do ANYTHING to ‘be part of’ what they and other complain is ‘the oppressed’. I don’t recall in my somewhat limited reading of the Civil War period about people ‘appearing to be slaves to show support’. But as Elizabeth Warren proves, not only is it accepted, it’s lauded. Can Rachel’s Courage Award be far behind?
>a black authenticity quiz<
insert idi amin or mugabe or " neck lacing " or drive by shooting or detroit joke here
>a black dysfunction
authenticityquiz<i was wondering the other day how it would be if things were different
Jahda and Marvin Bakari – The Activism Behind The McKinney Pool Party Narrative…
this is my chapel in the woods
Oh, a comment on NAACP’s facebook: “if people are going to demand we accept Jenner’s assertion of womanhood, who are we to oppose Dolezal’s assertion of being black.”
Oppps.
#blackliesmatter
>this is my chapel in the woods<
watch out for the wood chink
err chuck. i subject myself to the collective or maybe eff u
I don’t recall in my somewhat limited reading of the Civil War period about people ‘appearing to be slaves to show support’.
there usually comes a point in my conversation (and I use the term loosely) with a “I have more Moral Authority Cuz Oppressed” Leftist when I pull the ‘slave card’ ..
My family being brought to the Americas against their will and sold to work on a Virginia plantation in 1697.
The hurrumphs and profanity leveled against me because I’m “not black” therefore it is IMPOSSIBLE are particularly delicious.
So it may be like those people who do self flagellation to feel the suffering of Christ except with out any actual pain or suffering.
That every single person alive today is almost certainly “descended from slaves” is a fact that doesn’t get mentioned often enough.
Slavery being a common human failing, not something Whitey invented.
If only someone had taught us all how this works and why in the world people would be drawn toward the power dynamics it creates!
I’m re-thinking my online presence entirely. I think, re: politics and culture, it will be “none.” It’s the only way I can remain sane, as I watch a bunch of frauds parroting back everything I’ve ever written without any acknowledgment that they were fucking warned — and for the crime of warning them, I was to be DESTROYED.
Pretend to your epiphanies, you fucking party lackey poseurs. You’ll get kudos. But what you won’t ever have is integrity.
I see you caught that WeirdDave “seriously, it’s all about control of the language” piece on Ace’s site yesterday…
Socrates had a similar problem in re politics. On the one hand (in a peculiar sense) his sole work was to attempt to understand it, and on the other hand to stay out of it as far as was in him possible. I’d suggest we look to his example.
You mean like Kenneth Minogue?
(I keed, I keed)
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