Posted on 02/02/2023 5:09:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
“Whites”—to the extent we can determine any race in an intermarried, multiracial society—do not fit the now ossified definition of an exploitive majority.
Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions.
Both the victimizers and victim were black. The Memphis police chief is black. The assistant police chief is black.
Nearly 60 percent of the police force is black. The white population of Memphis is about 25 percent.
The now-disbanded Scorpion unit of mostly black officers was created as a response to grassroots appeals to stop spiraling crime in mostly black neighborhoods.
The death of Tyre Nichols could be attributed to many things: a basic lack of humanity on the part of the officers, poor police training, lax administrative supervision, and lowered hiring standards.
Instead, no sooner was the beating death announced than accusations of “systemic racism” surfaced.
Van Jones, the former Obama Administration green czar and recent recipient of Jeff Bezos’ $100 million “courage and civility award,” pronounced on CNN that the black police oppressors were acting out white racism.
Some claimed that charging the five black officers with murder was itself racist. Others alleged that creating the unit in the first place to reduce black-on-black crime was racist.
Yet, when everything becomes racist, then nothing in particular can be racist.
About the same time, the city of San Francisco, along with the state of California, was exploring paying out huge cash reparations to its African-American residents for the ancestral sin of slavery.
That evil institution was abolished some 158 years ago through a Civil War that killed some 700,000 Americans.
Yet California was always a free state with no history of
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
If slavery is bad then what is slavery to the state?
False premise.
They used to end debates over "Who is a Jew?" with the answer "Someone who had to get into the boxcar".
I'm sure you all can make up an appropriate way to define "Who is white?"
Good at Math and likes grape juice, not grape drink.
We’re looking at the same mindset that justified slavery of black people, but in reverse. It’s black supremacy.
People who are obsessed with “race” are properly described as “racists”. And although there are many on the Democrat/Communist/Left who think, speak and act in a manner they profess to hate (i.e., they engage in racism), America is not — and never has been — a “racist country” ... far from it.
Nearly 60 percent of the police force is black. The white population of Memphis is about 25 percent.
The now-disbanded Scorpion unit of mostly black officers was created as a response to grassroots appeals to stop spiraling crime in mostly black neighborhoods.
It sounds to this white guy like systemic black racism. Blacks dont care who they beat up or kill as long as it is somebody and the town gets to riot for the weekend so the hood is replenished with big screen TVs and Kool cigarettes.
VDH ping
And, as an aside, WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!
It’s all over local TV this morning. Thank Heaven Feb. is only 28 days.
Even better is reading VDH without having to go to National Review. LOL
I think whites should be just put into a couple of states like TX/OK (or any combination like that) to protect the black people. We should be herded in and given no federal help, money, etc.....nothing. A wall should be put up around the property....again, to protect the black people. We should just be left to our own demise....I am pretty sure we would wither away without any help from black people and within just a couple of years they will get it all back as the last few of us that remain beg for them to come in and bring technology and enlightenment back to us. I am super afraid if this ever happened in the future. I don’t know what I will do without peanut butter.
Fallacies: The claim that a single death was solely caused by systemic racism commits the fallacy of oversimplification, as it disregards the multiple factors that could have contributed to the death.
Misunderstandings: The concept of systemic racism is complex and multi-faceted, and a claim that a single death was caused by it may not fully capture its nuances and complexities.
Problems with reasoning: Correlation does not equal causation, and making the claim that the death was solely caused by systemic racism without sufficient evidence to support such a claim would be problematic.
Invalid concept: Systemic racism is a concept that describes the ways in which racial discrimination is ingrained in the systems and institutions of society, and it is not a phenomenon that can cause a specific death in isolation.
In conclusion, while systemic racism may have contributed to a broader societal context in which the death occurred, making a definitive claim that it caused the death would require further evidence and a more nuanced understanding of the complex interplay of factors that led to the event.
In sum, class, not race, remains the best litmus test of being underprivileged in America. It is no longer synonymous with race.
No wonder the identity politics industry now strains to attach prefixes such as “systemic” or “implicit” to “racism,” or “micro” to “aggression,” purportedly to ferret out bias that otherwise is not apparent.
Pause to reflect that America is the only successful multiracial constitutional republic in history.
But national cohesion is only possible through citizens subordinating their tribal interests to a common culture. Only then do they cease being automatons of warring tribes and collectives.
As the world becomes ever scarier, Americans must—as Benjamin Franklin once warned—hang together, or most certainly they will soon all hang separately.
An excellent article that should be used in the talking points for every mass media presentation today!
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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We’re like the South America of yesteryear: money divides class, not race.
However,:
Pause to reflect that America is the only successful multiracial constitutional republic in history.
I believe that would be properly presented in the past tense.
Also note the absence of the word: "Democracy".
In short, the US is doomed.
Systemic racism is a concept that describes the ways in which racial discrimination is ingrained in the systems and institutions of society, and it is not a phenomenon that can cause a specific death in isolation.
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Just curious: Which “systems and institutions” are designed to punish black, US-citizens specifically because the are black (and not simply for some other, extraneous reason)?
Yep ... as soon as I can clear away the broken limbs from the ice event of the last three days, I’ll run the Stars and Bars up my flagpole. It’s one of my traditions ...
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