Posted on 05/12/2019 4:49:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
There was a time when people aspired to a world where race was an afterthought. It was always a tough slog, but we’d moved closer and closer over time. Then something funny happened – a political party realized they could benefit from division and that unity was bad for business. Unity would require a debate on issues and their merits, which was one they had been losing, so they opted for backsliding; divide to conquer.
If you divide people into groups it is much easier to win. Groups of people are easier to manipulate than millions of individuals. It is easier to win especially when you’ve been inundating them with the idea that there are “others” actively working against them as well as a system completely rigged to crush them. These ideas coupled with the elevation and fetishization of victimhood in the culture and you’ve created the perfect petri dish for the progressive agenda.
The left needs to foster division, and the anger a fear that accompanies it, because a fearful and angry people don’t think rationally. A fearful and angry people can have that fear and anger pointed toward those they’re told to be fearful of and angry at.
We’ve all seen and hear the “us vs. them” politics of the left, especially the last few years. Rich vs. poor, straight vs. gay, urban vs. rural, etc. But their favorite, and most effective, tool is race – the hyphen has been fully weaponized.
Skipping the larger, more obvious declarations about putting “y’all back in chains” and the like, this mentality has permeated every level of thinking on the left. And since it is metastasizing throughout the left, it has infected the culture.
TV shows and movies about how awful and racist the country is rack up awards, if not audience members.
But the latest example is the most absurd, at least so far.
This week a baby was born. A “royal baby,” if you’re into that sort of thing. Prince Harry and his wife Meghan welcomed a baby boy whose name is irrelevant and not worth Googling (it’s something very British). Whatever the name, surely most people wish him well and, unless you’re British, never really think about him again. Let the kid be as much of a kid as anyone cursed with the luck of being born into the royal family in the modern era can be.
But in the “woke world,” everything is an opportunity, everything is available for exploitation, if hit helps the cause – from family tragedies to school shootings before a motive is known or there’s an accurate body count – so why should a baby’s birth be any different?
Before his umbilical cord has even fallen off, leftists were projecting their agenda onto him because his mother happens to have a black mother. “Will Meghan Markle and Prince Harry raise their baby to be black?” the Los Angeles Times wondered.
CNN’s “analysis” of the birth was titled, “Don’t use the royal birth to trot out a dangerous myth.” What “dangerous myth” were they warning the world about? “Let's not turn this child into another ‘Great Mixed-Race Hope,’” the piece declared. I’ll take a moment to remind you that this child was just born and still in the hospital when these “news” organizations decided the world needed to know these deep thoughts.
“We've seen this story before. A mixed-race person is elevated to a position of prominence. They're touted as proof of racial progress,” CNN’s column continued, “part of a Brown New World in which racism will inevitably collapse in the future because there will be so many interracial relationships. This anointing is part of what some call the ongoing "fetishization" of interracial children and adults.” Again, it is a baby.
The CNN article went on to ask, “How black will the royal baby be?” Not kidding.
That’s just a taste of the obsessive/compulsive (Pavlovian really) reaction to an opportunity to exploit anything remotely tied to race. It’s a sickness, but what’s worse there is a large swath of the country who think this is good, that it’s important.
The most quoted like from Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech is, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” It’s a beautiful dream we’ve not only stopped moving towards, Democrats have slammed the car in reverse. To win elections they’re willing to damage the country by engaging in exactly what they tell people they’re fighting. That saddest part is it works.
Divide and conquer is an old tactic.
Whatever her mom is, that woman looks as white as me.
Skin-color politics is soooooo stupid. No human passes the ‘white tissue test’. There is no pure black in nature. We do not have white and black humans. We are all one shade or another of brown...except for albinos, who are pink.
When I have to fill out forms that asks what race I am I always write human.
Self hating whites hate whites and if you talk about it, to them, you’re a racist. We are screwing out kids and g’kids.
Some Africans come awfully dang close. I’ve never seen an American black who was anything more than dark brown, but I once saw a Senegalese who was truly black everywhere except on his dark brown palms. It was hard not to stare.
This obsession with race is psychotic, and is just another sign of the mental illness that affects the American left.
Race is the greatest collective in the socialists coalition of collectives.
Once again, I have come to the inevitable conclusion (now forgone) that there are far worse things in the world than racism, but try telling that to a liberal democrat racist.
The left is obsessed with hate and death.
Throw in white guilt and you have the perfect combination for the "history for profit" scam. Divide the people into the oppressor class and the victim class, then steal from the oppressors and give to the victims.
This is completely backwards. Atomized pure individuals are utterly powerless against the collective and the narrative.
Which is why to change anything you have to organize into groups. Look at any political campaign, Trump's for instance. It was all about forming a strong group identity. Thus: MAHA hats, stadium rallies, meme broadcasts, etc.
The race-blind ideology was always intended for only one race to internalize around. Whites. Many of the same people who want you to hold the "we are all just the human race" ideology don't believe it themselves. But they like a deracinated majority, it makes us easier to push around. "Can't we just all get along?" Is issuance followed by someone explaining why we all have to do as they say. Trannies in the ladies room, no prayer in school, bilingual education.
Race matters because it is a fundamental and unalterable foundation of identity. Failing to embrace your own team, while everyone else in the world is supporting their own will bring only weakness and failure.
Race denialism is a foundation of the failed cuckservative movement of the last 50 years. Maybe it's defining apex. It's why Glenn Beck derailed the tea party into a Martin Luther King worship movement, which was a great practical example of denuding and nuetering an implicitly white movement with this Boomer clap-trap that we are all one race.
We did not gain power in that transformation, the Tea Party movement was effectively dissolved by it.
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