Today I’ve read several pieces by individuals with whom I have rarely agreed with full throat but thought were more or less sane in which the term “white supremacist” was applied pretty casually, rather as “racist” has been for a number of years now. I’m old enough to remember when there were actual living, breathing white supremacists around and white supremacy was actually a mainstream position in some states.
I think they should be more sparing in their use of the term, reserving it for, you know, actual white supremacists. When every person of primarily European descent (and a lot of people of Middle Eastern, North African, or even East Asian) descent who do anything other than sit around in glum silence are accused of being white supremacists, the time when the phrase not only has no meaning but no longer has any force is not far away.
I suspect this is just an upgrading in the cultural war. On the left you used to be called a socialist whenever there was disagreement over policy. Now it is Marxist. Soon it will be communist again.
Steve
I think it’s worse than that, steve. It’s one thing when the John Birch Society calls you a communist but another when the Chamber of Commerce does.
Three policy examples of socialism often cited are 1) a living wage 2) free higher education 3) universal health care. All three are supported by people like Bernie Sanders, Karmala Harris, BLM co-founders – all intricate players in what would be a Biden presidency. Harris has openly embraced BLM. BLM has openly called themselves Marxists. And! Marx wrote that the natural progression of socialism is communism. All three ideologies are intertwined, having similar policies which only augment and encourage each other, empowering a final result of something very different from free market capitalism.
I remember in the 1990’s while driving in rural Cecil County MD where my wife and I came across a hand-printed notice nailed to a telephone pole announcing the date, time, and place for a Klan meeting. Yeah, that Klan. Actual anti-black anti-semitic white hooded racists, the kind that used to lynch blacks and southern Republicans and burn crosses in front of intra-racial family homes. Nowadays you probably couldn’t fill a minor league baseball stadium with all the real white supremacists in the country. But according to the FBI and other ‘trustworthy’ government sources we’re up to our ears in them. I guess that’s why there are so many hate crime hoaxes out there, those cunning White Supremacists certainly know how to gull willing blacks into committing them so that the ‘real’ racist crimes go ignored. A kind of racial ‘boy cries wolf’ MO. Bulls**t.
The problem for the race hustlers is there is relatively so little actual racism in everyday life that they have to rustle up new ways of drumming up business. Disparate Impact. Micro-aggressions. Unconscious bias. And now systemic racism. Why bother trying when you can always blame Whitey for everything? And even better, convince Whitey to support you? It’s a great gig if you can get it, and BLM has been certainly raking in the cash. Over a billion all told. Never mind that it is an almost wholly white-owned and operated franchise, with scores of real ‘kills’ to its name.
Is there still racism in this country? Damn right there is. Losers gotta look down on others to pump themselves up, and skin color or funny ways of talking or dressing or acting is as easy a way to locate a target for contempt. But how can billionaire Oprah spout off about how much advantage whitey had over her, when she overcame her own setbacks and problems (and she had real ones) to become the tycoon she is? My West Virginia coal miner grandfather who died penniless of black lung at age 56 sure wasn’t able to use his ‘whiteness’ advantage for his benefit. Neither did countless other mountaineers. How did Obama get elected if this is such a horribly racist country? It’s crap. The problem is we have a bunch of power-hungry maggots, trolls, and Twitter followers who slander left and right for kicks, and no one on ‘their side’ has the guts to call them out for fear of being tarred by the ‘R’ word. Cowards, all of them. Cowards and grifters. Enough ranting, I do this enough on this site as it is, and I’m glad you’re all patient and understanding about it.
What is the real goal of those who point fingers and call people names? Harmony? No.
Equality? No. Continuing conflict? Sure it is.
It took 80 nights of riots in Portland to call out the Proud Boys. Happy now? The police are, they’re standing down. Let what happens, happen.
Actually, Tars, I don’t think you went far enough. They have run out of traditional racism examples so they have invented them. Gotta keep the cash registers rolling.
The overwhelming source of racism is on the left these days. They are obsessed with it. And just look at how whites, especially southern whites, are portrayed in so many venues.