Why are black people so racist?
Because Whitey bought into the idea that he’s ‘racist’ because he’s white. When you think about it, that trick is an extraordinary stroke of cunning. Blacks can be as racist as they want without being called on it because Whitey’s brain freezes up.
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The lie I was taught in “university” was that since “people of color” have no power to oppress, it’s not racism.
That's what seals it shut. What makes that lie particularly galling is the "person of color" foisting it upon the kids did have power: the power to send any vigorious debunker to the Dean for "sensitivity training" on pain of expulsion. The power to punish is, of course, power.
So the poor kids who had to face that, faced a performative hypocrite - someone who had the power to enforce his/her "We have no power" lie.
It's a pity that Ayn Rand wasn't alive and churning out novels at the time. Had she been, and once she got wind of the politicaly-correct con game, there'd be a scene in one of her novels featuring a Floyd-Ferris-like creep saying:
"Of course we have power, as you are about to find out when I expel you. Your parents: they are nice bourgeois producers and consumers, are they not? The kind who looks down on mere intellectuals such as I, as mere theoreticians incapable of making their way in the practical world? Well, as you are about to find out, we mere theoreticians have a practicality that your plush bourgeois parents can only have nightmares about.
"Your punishment is rated because of your intellectual laziness. You are too lazy, too unthinking, to see that a position of statisical powerlessness says nothing in itself about an individual's power. Your progressive professor has that power, as do I. It is your own fault for assuming that a statistical collective is the same as the individuals comprising it. You are about to learn the difference, the hard way.
"As of now, you are expelled. Vacate the university at once, for I also have the power to arrest you for trespassing. As your good bourgeois parents would no doubt endorse."