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Woke Racism


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2021 Nov 22, 6:14am   26,335 views  272 comments

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https://spectatorworld.com/topic/john-mcwhorter-versus-progressive-elect/?source=patrick.net


In his timely new book Woke Racism, Columbia linguistics professor John McWhorter examines the force of an ascendant political religion that to his mind “has betrayed black America.”

“White privilege becomes the original sin that requires perpetual atonement,” McWhorter observes. Woke rebukes white America for its passive, unpardonable complicity within a fundamentally racist system. One is cleansed only through self-mortification.

According to McWhorter, a multi-racial Elect thinks of itself as a bearer of exclusive wisdom and empathy.

Woke positions itself against the white race, men, Christianity, capitalism and private property, heterosexuality — in other words, against people, institutions, belief systems, and worldly activities at the nation’s core. Convinced of its superior moral vision and divine duty, the Elect displays humorless fanaticism and demands total allegiance.

Providing a ministry of racial auguries, authors Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ibram Kendi, and Robin DiAngelo have catapulted to fame and fortune. With forensic skill, McWhorter analyzes their thin premises in what he has called “go-to books of the moment for whites seeking a way to help America heal racially.”

McWhorter does not think racial prejudice is the main obstacle to black advancement, and this sets him apart from many other prominent commenters on race. As he states in his preface, being black enables him to write a critique that would get a white observer accused of hate speech and racism. Concise and blunt, hastily written, sometimes choppy but deeply sincere, the book compares and coincides with a 624-page “new origin story” from the New York Times’ 1619 Project, “created” by Nikole Hannah-Jones and published by a Random House imprint.

The proposition that white racism is baked into American life has been around since the 1970s. As it goes, U.S. institutions advance Anglo-European ideas and symbols that ensure control over people of color and other oppressed groups. The time-tested idiom is “systemic racism,” which McWhorter considers a “clumsy term.” Woke goes a step further. It rejects time-honored standards of talent and virtue as colonizing, invasive, genocidal, and soul-destroying.

The Elect can be slippery and underhanded, McWhorter has noticed. One minute, as before the Virginia gubernatorial elections, it declares that nothing is going on in schools that we need to talk about. Critical race theory is not even being taught, media and progressives exclaim. The rubes don’t even know what it is. The next minute, this same Elect declares anti-racism lessons to be imperatives — but to thwart backlash from the rubes, we shouldn’t talk about the new developments.

The 1619 Project — perhaps the Elect’s proudest conceptual showpiece — seeks to reframe U.S. history by “placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.” Its editors claim, “out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system.” The nation’s leading historians agree the 1619 opus flagrantly ignores established political and economic truths. Insinuating the U.S. is a criminal enterprise not worthy of survival, the Project’s ambitions border on sedition.

Yet this testament has received acclaim from the nation’s highest offices. Its architect, Hannah-Jones, has received a Pulitzer imprimatur for her commentary. “The #1619Project is a powerful and necessary reckoning of our history,” California’s then-senator Kamala Harris commented upon its release two years ago. “We cannot understand and address the problems of today without speaking truth about how we got here.”

Woke is increasingly official policy. California’s newly mandated ethnic studies curriculum contains lessons to make students “agents for change,” and maintains that “one of the main focuses of ethnic studies is translating historical lessons and critical race theory into direct action for social justice.”

Not just in California but nationwide curriculum supervisors and school librarians won’t consider text or trade books that do not make race and far-left fixations the center of the narrative. Health and sex education frameworks often de-center mom-and-dad families, pushing free-form sexuality and more.

Most functional Americans of all ethnicities try to act what is lazily labeled “white.” As University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax and Judith H. Katz have indicated in radically different ways, much of the anti-white critique is merely anti-bourgeois. Making a case for “bourgeois culture” four years ago, Wax drew intense censure for “assertions of white cultural superiority.” Katz’s 1978 anti-racism training manual, White Awareness, introduced the now familiar theme of white privilege. Assumptions of white culture, Katz professed, included two-parent families, hard work and politeness, objective “linear” thinking, respect for authority and law, investment and saving, punctuality, and emotionally blandness.

Woke is unable to understand why black juvenile violence is a problem, or why white parents who harbor no inherent ill feeling about blacks are protective of their children’s minds, innocence, and safety.

If Woke is accelerating, what is to be done? Modernity’s spiritual hole gives it mass psychological entrée. Legalizing drugs, advancing literacy, and rethinking vocational education is a beginning, McWhorter advises. What to do about black social pathologies and demands of impunity? He hedges, too clever to touch the third-rail. Should you question Woke in many quarters, McWhorter said recently on National Public Radio, “You are to be dismissed from polite society. You are to be sanctioned. You can’t be among us. You’re dirty.”

McWhorter closes his book with advice to Woke’s adversaries to stand up, civil but firm, not roll over: I don’t care what you call me…I will not retract…no, we will not refocus our entire curriculum…and so on. It’s a firmly principled approach but not always easy to execute when a marriage, friendship, or career is at stake.

Woke might be a religion, a quasi-religion, a political death cult — maybe it’s just a passing intellectual fad — but comparisons of Woke to Christian sanctions against pagans in the late Roman empire seem apt. Yet Woke offers no salvation or forgiveness, no solace. It seeks never-ending apologies and humiliation. Whatever the restitution, the debt can never be repaid.

The last decade’s experience suggests Woke does not plan to rest until bourgeois America folds its tent. Whether the Democratic Party has the capacity or will or desire to contain lawlessness and social disorder remains an open question. Woke radicals demand temporal power to redeem virtue, mindful of their responsibility to crush heresies.

The priests will be hard to dislodge. The diversity project has captured vast endowments and offices in the nation’s core institutions. As abbots and bishops of old discovered, there’s good money and prestige — even pleasure — in dispensing faith, touched by a singular state of grace and the power to excommunicate.




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241   Patrick   2024 Sep 5, 4:58pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/2019-video-shows-kamala-harris-nodding-along-to-the-proposal-that-the-government-needs-to-write-special-laws-specifically-for-black-people


2019 video shows Kamala Harris agreeing with the idea that we need separate laws for people with different skin colors

Call me a conspiracist, but something about this does NOT sound like equal justice under the law.



... This was shortly before she dropped out of the 2020 race for being the worst candidate in the history of the world.
251   ElYorsh   2024 Sep 27, 4:50pm  




Media keeps pushing that's its OK for decent white men to date skanky women after some thug left her for another one.
252   HeadSet   2024 Sep 27, 8:05pm  

ElYorsh says

Media keeps pushing that's its OK for decent white men to date skanky women after some thug left her for another one.

Those articles are written by those skanky women.
267   Patrick   2024 Dec 1, 11:02am  

https://nitter.poast.org/ScottAdamsSays/status/1862864391936569835#m


Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
Nov 30
I'm glad I lived long enough to see this happen.

For over 30 fucking years I've been discriminated against (in employment) for my race and my gender, while being labeled the problem.

And I didn't have enough "free speech" to even talk about it until a few years ago.

My first employer, Crocker Bank, told me directly they would never promote me because of my race and gender.

So I quit, and went to work at Pacific Bell.

Then Pacific Bell told me the same.

So I "quiet quit" and started Dilbert on the side. That only succeeded because the syndication company couldn't find diverse artists fast enough.

The Dilbert TV show on UPN died because its Monday night slot, where it was succeeding, was replaced by an all-African-American comedy block.

And obviously Dilbert would not have been "canceled" worldwide if I were Black.

Watch the anti-white racist comments to this post.
268   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2024 Dec 1, 12:26pm  

Patrick says

Scott Adams
ScottAdamsSays
Nov 30
I'm glad I lived long enough to see this happen.


Great comments!
269   Ceffer   2024 Dec 1, 12:47pm  

Well, in the wayback machine, I was also discriminated against. The Great Decortication and Frontal Lobotomy project want technology replaced for the general population with witch doctor ooga booga subversive down tilting fuckery. The REAL technologies remain in the hands of the few and their subservient hireling class.

They want to go back to the good ole days of illiterate or semiliterate populations with the private occult majiks restricted to the bloodlines and certain literate priest castes.

All the strobing ads on regular network TV show candy colored suburban splendor living the 20 million dollar plus lifestyle with minorities where suburban whites used to be.

This is indicative of the mass deceptions the elites crave to market and foist. They want to be elite again with lower, controllable population of limited intelligence and foresight and don't want the harbor at Monaco crowded with upstart wealthy nouveau riche yachts any more. Beguiled and ignorant slave labor will mostly do, because analysis from the Nazi era showed that their projects require mostly obedient, disposable slave labor.

Of course, the current scheme is for the bloodlines to fake self immolate, move the Southern Hemisphere while the Northern Hemisphere is eradicated through nuclear holocaust, then rise again Phoenix-like in a new venue with the depopulation handled.

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