Posted on 08/27/2016 5:48:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
Tim Wise is a white “antiracist” and crusader for “social justice.”
Recently, in an interview that he gave to Salon, Wise brought his “expertise” on race to bear upon the Trump phenomenon.
Donald Trump, he claims, exploited the “market for white resentment [.]”
Trump’s supporters, Wise assures us, are “crazy, bigoted, misogynistic” and “racist.” Moreover, they suffer from a “fragile masculinity” that’s threatened by the prospect of “pluralism,” of having to “share space” with those who aren’t white, Christian, heterosexual men.
To these folks, Wise bluntly states, “there’s a part of me that wants to say, ‘Fuck you.’” He admits to wanting to tell them: “I want your America to die, and I want you to be sad tomorrow, and I want you to deal with the fact painfully that your country is gone. And I don’t care because your country, as you conceived it, deserved to die.”
First of all, the only arguments that Wise makes here are the argument ad hominem and begging the question, arguments that are as psychologically, emotionally, and politically satisfying as they are logically fallacious. Wise blasts Trump’s white male supporters with the most radioactive of insults—“racist,” “bigoted,” etc.—while assuming that the resentment, the “white resentment,” that he attributes to them is unjustified. Yet this is exactly what needs to be shown.
Second, words like “racist,” “misogynistic,” are associative and affective, not logical or rational. Take “racism.” For something that functions as the political-moral equivalent of a nuclear bomb, the deadliest of all weapons of mass destruction, “racism” is used in wildly disparate contexts. It has been used to describe both Hitler’s policy of mass extermination of Jews and, most recently, Ellen DeGeneres’ posting of a Usain Bolt meme. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Simon Legree and Paula Deen, the Ku Klux Klan and “capitalism,” are all “racist.”
Precisely because murder is universally recognized as the egregious offense that it is, very specific criteria must be met before a person can be found guilty of it. Moreover, it is the accuser upon whom the burden of proof rests. If “murder” was employed as variously as is “racism,” we would all be murderers. But if “murder” could mean all things to all people, it ultimately would wind up meaning nothing.
This, though, is the fate that “antiracists” like Wise have visited upon their bread and butter, the word “racism.” All that people know is that to be accused of “racism” is to be accused of something awful. As to what, exactly, this thing is, no one knows.
Third, if, as Wise contends,there really are millions of resentful whites, it remains an open question as to whether their resentment is justified. When we are not engaging in politics, everyone understands that resentment is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, upon hearing that a person has resentment toward, say, her husband or her parents, the average person, far from dismissing it or writing it off as a function of wickedness on the part of the resentful individual, will suppose that there is probably some warrant for the resentment.
Yet when it comes to talking about the resentment, or anger, of white men, the kind of sensible thinking that pervades non-political, everyday life yields to the hyper-emotionality—and bad faith—reflected in Wise’s remarks.
Fourth, if whites generally, and white men in particular, are resentful, could it be that they are resentful toward people like Tim Wise? Perhaps white men resent the campaign of demonization that the merchants of the Racism-Industrial-Complex (RIC) have been waging against them for decades? Maybe, just maybe, they’re resentful toward those who would reduce their concerns for the well-being of their families, their concerns over crime, dangerous schools, terrorism, and illegal immigration to expressions of raw hatred? Maybe they’re resentful over the fact that the agents of Big Racism, ideologues like Wise, tirelessly objectify them as non-persons by meeting their objections to “affirmative action” and other racial double-standards with, not just insults, but aspersions—like “racist”—that have the potential to spell the professional and social ruination for those at whom they’re aimed?
Fifth, his self-description notwithstanding, Wise and his ilk are not “antiracists.” They are anti-white. More specifically, they are anti-white male. If Wise and company truly were “antiracists,” then they would speak out against the phenomenon of black racial animus, for blacks are exponentially more likely than are those of any other racial group to engage in interracial violence.
In 2013, 85% of the 660,000 instances of interracial violence between blacks and whites involved black perpetrators and white victims.
While it’s standard operating procedure for “antiracists” like Wise to dismiss this inconvenient fact by noting that blacks, who comprise a significantly smaller percentage of the population than whites, are much more likely to have “chance” encounters with whites than vice versa, this line falls flat once it is realized that blacks attack Hispanics only slightly less often than they attack whites: Of the 256,074 acts of interracial violence between these two groups, blacks were the perpetrators 82.5% of the time.
From Wise, however, we hear not a peep.
Finally, more evidence—proof, really—that Wise is more anti-white than anything else is that he admits to indulging in genocidal fantasies regarding “white America” (or what, until recently, was known simply as “America”). For some of us, this confirms what we’ve long suspected, that invocations of “Equality” and “pluralism” and the like—moral notions that originated in Western (white) civilization—constitute a smokescreen behind which “antiracists” and others seek to wage a kind of cold war against whites and white men. It’s not that Wise (I have to believe) wishes to see anyone literally killed. This war, rather, is a war to dismantle a culture, to demoralize, to shame. Politics is war by other means, and this is the war that “antiracists” and “social justice” crusaders have been in the process of waging for at least a half-of-a-century.
Ultimately, Wise’s remarks regarding supporters of Donald Trump have nothing to do with either Trump or his supporters. They are revealing for his views on straight white Christian men, for these are the views that Wise has been pedaling well before Trump entered the political arena.
Make no mistakes, leftists like Wise oppose Trump not primarily because of his policy prescriptions, and not even because of the callousness with which Trump has spoken. Wise and his fellow travelers don’t even necessarily oppose Trump as a person or candidate.
Rather, they oppose what they think Trump symbolizes: The America that Tim Wise believes has long “deserved to die.”
Any culture that aspires to intellectual greatness through justice and logic will become victim to psychopaths who embrace deception and emotion.
America does NOT deserve to die—and be replaced with MexArabia!!!!
PHOOEY to Tim Wise!!!! PHOOEY to Hillary clinton!!!! GO TRUMP/PENCE!!!!
Social Justice warriors—and the “human rights” movement—are less than sh!t!!!!
This is pure unadulterated Alinsky. Throw out mud. Make your opponent duck it. Hope some will stick even if its not the truth. Its basically the only thing they have. Its worked in the past because the Pubbies were too scared to fight back. The Donald is NOT! Vote Trump!
A simple solution would be for Wise to kill himself.
I’ve been warning people about Wise for months. That guy should have been the 2016 Democratic nominee, not Hillary. He is the true face of Left. He’s from Tennessee.
I’m really done caring what people think of me because of my skin color and what’s between my legs.
Both of those things I have no control of, just like them.
Other than that, the rest of me is based on choices I made—my religious beliefs (or lack of them), the type of sex partners I like (women, and I’m a guy), what I do for a living, how hard I work, my politics.
Still, those things are also no one else’s business, and I do not care a flying fig what anybody thinks about them.
The anti-racialists fired every arrow in their quiver, and it’s always the same arrow. It just doesn’t work on me.
Calling someone racist, as the writer said, USED to be the nuclear bomb of politics, but it doesn’t phase me one iota.
Call me a racist, and I’ll smile and say “Thanks! If you can be proud of something you have no control over, like your darker than mine skin, then so can I.”
I went to this guy’s web site. He has lots of articles, but there are no comments on them. Hmmmmmm, wonder why? I would bet that he didn’t like the logic and facts that his opponents were using against him and turned them off.
The more all whites get accused of racism, the more they simply dislike the people hurling these accusations. Eventually many will indeed be racist, and it will be the accusations and psychological warfare that made it so. As we learn in cases of abuse, the more you insult and degrade someone, the more they become what you say they are. Eventually, even well-meaning whites will be badgered and bullied into either hating themselves... or hating The Other. When that happens, we may finally have that Race War they are practically begging for.
>>Trump’s supporters, Wise assures us, are “crazy, bigoted, misogynistic” and “racist.” Moreover, they suffer from a “fragile masculinity” that’s threatened by the prospect of “pluralism,” of having to “share space” with those who aren’t white, Christian, heterosexual men. <<
I tell you what, (Un)Wise, I’m a 75 year old white male. Meet me anytime, anywhere, weapons of my choosing and I’ll show you my fragile masculinity.
another self hating slob
First, the confession.
Next, the sentence.
Yes. That’s what leftists do. Shut down debate. I want to see him run for president. Let him lose in a landslide.
Interesting point..Many years ago Orson Welled was doing an interview and talked about his marriage to Rita Hayworth.He said I was accused of sleeping with so many women,I got tired of the accusations and went out and did it.Eventually,whites will become racist and that’s what dems want..It will be the Pontius Pilate card.You want them dead.Okay,but I wash my hands of it,this is what YOU want.You will be ‘reesponsible for all the dead blacks.I`m killing them for you.
The efforts to marginalize the majority will not go well. Discrimination against and demonification of white people is also a civil rights injustice.
And he is a traitor to America for his wish for the death of this nation. Time was the FBI and State Department and Congress and media recognized these people as a threat to the continued existence of this country that has defended liberty around the globe.
Homosexuals are 2% of the population, over 25% of the media, and a sizeable number of the CEOs of corporate America. Homos need to check their privilege (or is it blackmail and a casting couch that affords them such advancement in industry and media?).
Good to see you’re still around!
It’s already happened. Before I knew what the term was, I was already Alt Right, we were just looking for socially acceptable people to advance the cause. Alt Right is basically acknowledging that much of American contemporary politics (and policy) is ONLY coherent if it’s understood to be anti-white as captured by Wise’s sentiments. Another thing we have been noticing is how almost EVERY.DAMN.TIME the most anti-white article or sentiment on twitter, is attributable to people from a certain background, which may or may not be white, depending on one’s view.
We also reject the market worship of contemporary libertarian-inspired conservative. It often serves as the philosophical rationalization of elites who would have you train your own replacement at your job, so they can either pay him less, no benefits or control him entirely. Certain left (as in old traditional, not SJW type) critiques of society and capitalism, as exemplified by Christopher Lasch, have traction, as well as Chesterton and Belloc.
The point is, we’re the future because we see that the GOP never intended to do anything other than cooperate with the demographic replacement of White Americans and the high-trust, high-functioning society they created with a lot of death and suffering to shape it. So we’ve latched onto Trump because he represents the last chance for civic nationalists to begin a process of restoration.
otherwise, the emerging ethnic nationalisms of Black and Latino groups is going to be me with that from Whites. We see what is happening in Europe and it disgusts us. But Europe demographically still has a chance to turn it around much more easily than the US.
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