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The Racist Sound of 'Whiteness Is a Pandemic'
Townhall.com ^ | March 19, 2021 | Tim Graham

Posted on 03/19/2021 4:23:33 AM PDT by Kaslin

The Root is obviously a hyperbolically racial magazine, since its slogan is "The Blacker the Content the Sweeter the Truth." It's not surprising that it frequently publishes writer Damon Young, author of the memoir "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker." We're told he asked important and dramatic questions like "Will this white person's potato salad kill me?"

Young's memoir was honored as "required reading" by NPR and celebrated by Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post, among others. He became a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.

The paranoia overflowed from this self-described "professional Black person" on St. Patrick's Day. Young posted a piece titled "Whiteness Is a Pandemic." This was not a joke. It began: "Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people -- white people and people who are not white, my mom included. There will be people who die, in 2050, because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850."

We can all imagine what might happen professionally to a writer if he were to pen this kind of foam-flecked copy but instead talk about "Blackness." It'd be denounced as virulently racist. But to hate everything about the infestation of Caucasians is not defined as "hate speech." It's somehow "anti-racist."

This article ended the same way: "White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we've had 400 years to develop one, so I won't hold my breath."

We could develop our own paranoia that this sounds like a call to isolate and kill the whites like we would a virus.

Young's news hook was the terrible mass shooting in Georgia, where a white man killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent. He blamed former President Trump and the Republicans, no matter what the unfolding evidence shows.

"A line can and should be drawn from the actions of the white supremacist ... to the relentless anti-Asian rhetoric pollinating national discourse over the past year," he wrote. "The former president, and the party of the former president, can and should be blamed for this and the sudden increase of racist violence against Asian Americans."

This kind of writing cannot be "fact-checked," since it's more performance art than journalism, like a one-man show at a radical-left coffeehouse. These are fighting words meant to inflame and draw attention to the writer. It's no dialogue about "healing." He's not interested in that, anyway.

Last year, he wrote a New York Times piece headlined "Yeah, Let's Not Talk About Race." Young overflowed with contempt for white people who try to tell him they loved his book and want to have a "Serious Conversation About Racism (SCAR)," as in getting "SCAR-bombed at Jiffy Lube."

He wrote that these conversations are a waste of his precious time for a "professional Black person" such as himself. Raging against racism is his full-time job, so white sympathizers should not attempt to talk with him. "You're asking me to work for you for free," he said.

He also employed a "Looney Tunes" analogy, writing, "I doubt the Road Runner, after a day of outrunning, outscheming and outlasting Wile E. Coyote, wishes to come home and explain coyote supremacy to the liberal coyotes who live in his neighborhood."

Anyone who encourages this manic monologue is encouraging never-ending hatred and division.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: damonyoung; joebiden; theroot

1 posted on 03/19/2021 4:23:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Nutjob hysteria.


2 posted on 03/19/2021 4:27:43 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Kaslin

The root of racism is ENVY.


3 posted on 03/19/2021 4:28:09 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: FES0844

It is indeed, if you think about it.


4 posted on 03/19/2021 4:29:25 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will Especial never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Kaslin

He’s making money as an anti-white racist, he’s not doing ANYTHING for free.


5 posted on 03/19/2021 4:32:31 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Kaslin

Caucasians (including Jews) are this century’s Jews. But thanks to lessons learned from the horrors inflicted by hitler, stalin, mao, and pol pot, we won’t give up our guns and willingly board the big busses with the built in shackles.


6 posted on 03/19/2021 4:34:46 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Kaslin

“Will this white person’s potato salad kill me?”

“Jesse Jackson found work at a local restaurant where, as he later boasted, he would secretly spit in the food of white customers.”

Any questions?


7 posted on 03/19/2021 4:56:14 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: pookie18; Kaslin
I just made this one.


8 posted on 03/19/2021 5:00:00 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

I’ll bet this guy is fun at parties.


9 posted on 03/19/2021 5:02:53 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Kaslin
The Root is obviously a hyperbolically racial magazine,

Yes it is. Why do we allow such? Yet whites are kowtowed and like deer in the headlights with all this racial hypocrisy, aggression and dehumanization. Do we think it will end well? Will whites walk up the plank to the cattle cars inanely & loudly proclaiming that they don't care about race or better yet 'I am not a racist'?

10 posted on 03/19/2021 5:18:48 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Travis McGee

This morning they are really rolling out the Asian victim memes. They desperately want this shooting to be all about blaming Asians in general for covid.


11 posted on 03/19/2021 5:22:31 AM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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To: Kaslin; Fred Nerks
we have to get rid of these Male White Supremacists, maybe a few concentration camps like Krakow II, and Dachau II.

The liberal fascists will breed the White out of their women.We'll keep them.

Its clear that this violent White Male Racial Supremacists have to go.

This guy is a prime example, pick him up and take him to the ovens!


12 posted on 03/19/2021 5:49:45 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Kaslin

Africanization has destroyed American cities


13 posted on 03/19/2021 5:51:48 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: Kaslin

“Whiteness Is a Pandemic.”

Let’s see what this wonder persons culture has created then.


14 posted on 03/19/2021 5:55:54 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: Kaslin

“White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we’ve had 400 years to develop one, so I won’t hold my breath.”

The sentiment sounds eerily familiar to those of other mass murderers.


15 posted on 03/19/2021 6:23:21 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: Travis McGee

Thanks, TM!


16 posted on 03/19/2021 7:09:01 AM PDT by pookie18
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To: FES0844

Indeed otherwise they wouldn’t use words like whiteness it’s like saying riots are caused by blackness their racism is showing.


17 posted on 03/19/2021 9:21:50 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Kaslin

every other sentence is literally dripping with racist sentiment.

MLKJr is spinning in his grave


18 posted on 03/19/2021 2:06:02 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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19 posted on 03/20/2021 5:41:27 PM PDT by bitt (America is the Home of the Brave, not the regime of the silenced.)
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To: Kaslin
This article ended the same way: "White supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we've had 400 years to develop one, so I won't hold my breath."

It would be scarier if white liberal 'elites' hadn't told BLM and Antifa to stand down or else... White liberal 'elites' didn't want the chaos while they're puppet-ing Biden.

20 posted on 03/20/2021 9:25:52 PM PDT by GOPJ (Rasmussen:75% of Americans support voter ID laws.(60% Democrat support - 89% Republican support.)
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