tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post8830389951767914733..comments2024-03-27T23:13:46.033-07:00Comments on Up Close, with Peter Sage: Not all Trump supporters are racist.Up Close: Road to the White Househttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03590477200706751934noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post-84447843819815141662018-06-09T20:03:08.302-07:002018-06-09T20:03:08.302-07:00“Liberalism is white supremacy!”: Our Sophomoric ...“Liberalism is white supremacy!”: Our Sophomoric Understanding of “Racism” <br /><br />Peter’s post “Not all Trump supporters are racists” shows how clueless we white liberals are about the radical evolution in application of the term “racism” in America. <br /><br />In all likelihood, almost every reader of this blog meets the new definitions of “white racist”. Why? Because we cling to the vestiges and tools of “white supremacy”, to wit, “white liberalism”, First Amendment “free speech”, and even the concepts of “intellectual objectivity” and “proper grammar”. <br /><br />How do I know this? I read articles in liberal media, and listen to liberal podcasts that describe avante garde teachings at American and European universities. See, The Economist, “Free speech at American universities is under threat”, https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/10/12/free-speech-at-american-universities-is-under-threat (“liberalism is white supremacy”); The Claremont Independent (university paper), “Students Demand Administrators Take Action Against Conservative Journalists”, https://claremontindependent.com/students-demand-administrators-take-action-against-conservative-journalists (“white supremacy has venerated the idea of objectivity, and wielded a dichotomy of ‘subjectivity vs. objectivity’ as a means of silencing oppressed peoples”); Challenging White Supremacy (CWS workshop), “White Supremacy Culture-Dismantling Racism”, http://www.cwsworkshop.org/PARC_site_B/dr-culture.html (cultural supremacy in literature and grammar); and The Hill, “Liberals Abandon Logic to Weaponize White Supremacy”, http://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/351159-liberals-abandon-logic-to-weaponize-white-supremacy. <br /> <br />Does this avante garde dogma mean that you are a racist? I’m sorry to say it, but yes it does. You just don’t know it yet, in the same way that our parents did not know their patriotism for the Vietnam war in 1965 meant they were ethnic cleansers. University campuses, probably you included, passed that judgment on your friends’ parents from 1968-72, but exempted your own mom and dad from that verdict. Your parents’ patriotism annihilated over a million Vietnamese justified by little more than an intellectual construct of “anti-communism”, and an ideology of “the domino theory”. That construct and ideology were the exclusive creation of white Americans, and given bloody effect exclusively by white patriots like your parents. Your parents, in other words, were white supremacists, and hence, they were racists. <br /><br />Now, according to the university avante garde, it is our turn—your turn-- to wear the label of “white supremacist” and hence “racist”. The evidence is likely overwhelming against you: You hold free speech so dear that you contribute money to the ACLU that defends hate speech and the KKK—that is, you view the historically white privilege of free speech to be more important than the crippling effect it has on black children hearing the ACLU supported messages that belittle them. You sent your children to the “best” colleges they could get into, white bastions of liberal thought that extoll “intellectual objectivity”, an illusion that allows white thought to divorce itself from real world consequences and rejects minority thinking extolling subjectivity. Of course, you also overwhelmingly read white authors and make only the most anemic efforts to be influenced by people of color, other than Oprah, “The Color Purple”, and maybe you regaled your peers with how much you liked “Black Panther”.<br /><br />Why are white liberals so comfy or smug in labeling Trump supporters as racists or racist sympathizers? Because it’s easy, intellectually undemanding, and self-reverential. That self-righteousness is likely to be short lived, as a younger generation of university thought passes judgment on us, on you, as we did on our friends’ parents.<br />Thad Guyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12145098704410773166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1437688200491675121.post-36809276627482292812018-06-09T12:01:10.848-07:002018-06-09T12:01:10.848-07:00If you define racism as tolerance for racism, you ...If you define racism as tolerance for racism, you get a different conclusion. There's racism, xenophobia, suspicion of the poor (especially people of color), and anti-intellectualism. Even if a follower exhibits none of those qualities overtly, his/her avid support of one who blatantly does qualifies as racism in my book.<br /><br />I agree that people do not see themselves as racists and hate being called that. So what do we do? Pretend we don't see it either?Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05772836480745923519noreply@blogger.com