Posted on 10/08/2012 2:55:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
..........Romney's whiteness has been hit by various super-PACs, including the organization the Obama campaign set up called "African Americans for Obama." But Obama's allies in the academic world are really stepping up to the plate. One of the loopiest attempts to attack Romney's race is from one Stephanie Li,an English professor.
Her vicious little hit piece on Romney has a truly stunning thesis. It is that Romney isn't merely white--simple observation reveals that, surely, even to the uneducated. No, it takes some kind of scholar such as Ms. Li to discern that he is "the whitest man to run for president"! Now, the fellow obviously is not an albino, so Li is compelled to explain to us what she means.
Li invokes what she regards as a well-established--what? scientific?--theory called "Critical Race Theory." She avers that "scholars" in this "field" have "demonstrated" that "whiteness" is a "social identity built upon unearned entitlements." Demonstrated! Like physicists have demonstrated quantum theory!
Li quotes another race theorist, one Peggy McIntosh, who claims that "whiteness" is "an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks." Li does not indicate the evidence McIntosh offers for this bizarre claim.
Amazing, isn't it? If you are white, you automatically have all these tools at your disposal that apparently guarantee your success -- tools that no other races have, of course. The tools are there -- but invisible! (Maybe the reason the vast majority of whites don't know about all these tools, and remain poor or middle-class, is that the tools -- like little fairies! -- are invisible). Now we know where Obama came up with his mantra, "You didn't build that!"
This is nonsense -- the sort of nonsense that, as Orwell observed, is so silly that only intellectuals can believe it........
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What these incredibly overeducated nitwits perpetually fail to grasp is that they became rich and famous in a country founded by virtually all those evil white guys. It’s hysterical...liberal academics might be the most dense people in the world. And the more degrees like phds they put behind their names, the higher it gets piled.
Should we discuss Chicom Li yellowness? She needs to go back to China with her own inferior race of slaves.
Oh yes, we have Thanksgiving, but they live up there and and I am down in Florida. They are traditional, just liberal. Former hippie types.
Interesting! And I’ll bet some of your discussions are worth listening to.
Just talking about Thanksgiving, and now my mind is making the image of turkey with gravy all over it...making me hungry!
Guess she wasn’t bright enough for medicine or the sciences, so she took a race baiter gig.
Wonder what the IQ point beatdown would be?
Now that Asian-Americans dominate admissions to the University of California system and consistently average IQ's of 104 (compared with ~110 for American Jews), perhaps we can look forward to a Li monograph on Yellowness: signifying, representing, subverting lesser races' discourse, and populating their institutions and cultural messages with the more-celestial intentions of the overseas descendants of the Middle Kingdom.
Yeah, I'll wait for that one.
I sent a note to ms Li asking if Hillary was the whitest woman to ever run for the presidency.
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