Argument, Democrats, Propaganda, Pseudo-intellectualism, Race, Racism
Critical Race Theory is what Americans will be hearing day in and day out from a Kamala Harris administration. You might as well familiarize yourselves with its fundamental, farcical pitfalls.
Watch these two explanatory videos via WND.Com or the Unz Review.
Or here:
“Racism Is A Thought ‘Crime.’ Thought Crimes Are The Prerogative Of A Free People”:
Argument, Crime, Ilana Mercer, Justice, Law, Political Philosophy, Racism
This is the 2nd in the YouTube version of my series deconstructing the political construct that is “racism.”
In it, I ask and answer the question, “Was the cop’s knee on George Floyd’s neck ‘racism’? ”
READ the column.
Watch the 1st in the YouTube series: https://youtu.be/kJR0HCpDSpM
Or, read it: “Systemic Racism Or Systemic Rubbish?”
And forgive the hair tics. Talking to a camera is not my favorite thing to do.
Argument, Capitalism, Communism, Race, Racism, Republicans, South-Africa, The West
A NEW COLUMN IS AT THE COURAGEOUS TOWNHALL.COM:
“Wake-Up. Systemic Anti-Whiteness Is Deadly. Witness South Africa.”
The column is made all the more urgent given the race riots stateside, ongoing with impunity, and those in Senekal, South Africa, over the lynching of farmer Brendan Horner, one among many thousands.
Excerpt:
How is it possible to debate Critical Race Theory yet fail to mention its salient characteristic—that it is exclusively and ethnocidally anti-white?
One Federalist piece, “Critical Race Theory Is A Classic Communist Divide-And-Conquer Tactic,” brings it back to communism. Quite how this adds up is unclear, but the author decries a way of thinking that exploits the amorphous “tragedy of racial divisions in America.” In essence, some bad people with a communistic manual and mindset aren’t interested in healing us.
Really? Did communism, an equal-opportunity oppressor, revolve around the exclusive blackening of whites?
Western democracies are third way political and economic systems. They are already heavily socialized. Once Western societies go from third way to third world, debate over communism will cease, for communism will have arrived.
In other words, dissecting and decrying Communism is an ideological luxury, the province of relatively wealthy, stable, developed democracies.
America is indeed racially divided. Blacks, for the most, hate whites for a variety of unjust reasons, not least the incessant, institutionalized, propagandizing by other progressive whites. Deal with this truth! Communism is but an intellectual crutch.
By deferring to communism and ducking anti-white animus, the ever-quaking commentariat cloaks itself in the raiment of respectable argument.
Then there is that Uriah Heep like obsequiousness. Going by the aforementioned Federalist writer, Beltway conservatives refuse to even take credit for the “oppressive” culture for which Europeans are being berated. Ludicrously, they universalize the creed, the Protestant Ethic.
Recall the “Smithsonian display on whiteness” that condemned as “white” all elements of a civilized society, including politeness, hard work, self-reliance, logic, planning, delayed gratification, and family cohesion?
“None of those are ‘white’ values,” says the author cited , as she criticizes Critical Race Theory for framing them as white.
Imagine being so apologetic as to wash your hands of a really cool thing you invented, evolved or were born into: Western civilization.
Almost all these values are most pronounced in the European culture. One might even pin them down to Western Europe, because the sanctity of a man’s word, the handshake, culminating in the legally binding contract—these are some of the cultural and religious values that allowed capitalism to take off particularly well in the Anglosphere. Arguably, these are not part of the East European ethos.
Podcaster Dave Rubin also won’t say “anti-white.” Critical Race Theory is … wait for it, “racist.” Racist? Is Critical Race Theory anti-black, anti-Hispanic, anti-Asian, anti-Amerindian?
Even City Journal writer Christopher Rufo, a formidable warrior against institutionalized Critical Race Theory, still can’t bring himself to say it. …
… READ the complete column, “Wake-Up. Systemic Anti-Whiteness Is Deadly. Witness South Africa,” at Townhall.com.
UPDATE: Killer lines from the American Renaissance version of the column:
Argument, Constitution, Democracy, Federalism, Intelligence, Law, Reason, The Courts
After hysterical preludes, Amy Klobuchar, the senator from Minnesota, questioned Amy Coney Barrett. I feared Barret’s tart tones—the American woman’s gravelly, vocal fry of a voice—would drive one to distraction, but she’s brilliant. Barrett looks disarmingly sweet and girly, but her replies are gloriously pointed and cerebral.
Advisory opinions are prohibited on the Court, Judge Coney Barrett teaches, as she explains a “concrete” as opposed to a “procedural” or “abstract” injury to the plaintiff. Her duty, as she sees it, is to address “concrete” wrongs, only, and in accordance with democratically-enacted law.
To the question of, “Why fight the Affordable Care Act, Amy Coney Barrett answered: “Ask the litigants. I don’t know.” Genius, because her replies are meta: They nail down the role of the SCOTUS in the federal scheme.
No doubt, Amy Coney Barrett will be the best mind on the SCOTUS! Her analytical reasoning—construction of an argument, the way she seals it logically, her preference for higher-order, principle- and process-oriented thinking, makes Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, Alito and Breyer pale by comparison. (Roberts is oriented toward administrative thinking; he has the mind of a functionary of the managerial State. As I pointed out in 2005, “Roberts is flummoxed by first-principle quandaries,” whereas first principles is Coney Barrett’s thing.)
For obvious reasons, Sonia Sotomayor was left off my just-cited list of SCOTUS justices whom Amy Coney Barrett easily usurps. An affirmative action baby (her term for herself), Sotomayor was advised to read children’s classics and basic grammar books during her summers, to get up to speed on her English skills at Princeton University. READ.
Most conservatives are like liberals on this topic. Nobody but myself has written extensively in the traditionally Szaszian mode. https://t.co/WGoYWcF3Dg https://t.co/ZhnMu3ZT2M
— ILANA Mercer (@IlanaMercer) October 13, 2020
SUMMARY OF SEN. BLUMENTHAL'S QUESTIONING OF ACB: Dems think violent felons should be allowed to vote, but that a man convicted of selling fraudulent foot inserts should not be allowed to own a gun.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) October 13, 2020
UPDATE (10/14):
Lots of cringe-worthy cliches and schmaltz came with the “quizzing” by Joni Ernst of Amy Coney Barrett. On being a mom, advice to young girls, exercise, role models. There is not daylight between Republican and liberal women, when it comes to this mushy drivel.