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Woke Racism


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2021 Nov 22, 6:14am   16,726 views  205 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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44   Patrick   2023 Apr 14, 6:32pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/this-florida-state-university-professor-suddenly-left-his-190k-salary-job-after-he-was-accused-of-faking-data-in-racism-studies


Florida State University professor Eric Stewart suddenly left his job after he had six studies retracted after it was alleged he faked data and altered sample sizes in order to make the country seem more racist than it actually is.


There's no money in showing that people actually get along mostly.

The money is in screaming RACISM RACISM RACISM as loud and long as possible. That pays pretty well, even if you are lying about it.
45   Patrick   2023 Apr 20, 6:50pm  

https://www.amren.com/commentary/2017/12/the-privilege-no-one-wants-white-privilege-racial-identity/


The power of “white privilege,” we are told, is all but unlimited. It underlies all our institutions. It is responsible for all non-white shortcomings. Its evil infects every white person and brings them wealth and power. To be white is to be one of the lords of creation, filled with what certified MacArthur Genius Ta-Nehisi Coates calls the “eldritch energies” dwelling within the “glowing amulet” of whiteness.

Yet even those non-white Americans who could claim the sacred status of whiteness — for example, Arabs classified as “white” by the Census Bureau — resist its power, not out of principle, but because they know the truth: In modern America, “whiteness” is a mark of Cain, not a key to status. And political power comes from shedding the imagined privileges of whiteness, and securing the actual privileges of non-whiteness.

For that reason, what are now called “Americans of Middle Eastern and North Africa descent (MENA)” are clamoring for a new category on the 2020 census so they will no longer be called white. ...

The emergence of a homosexual “identity” may even be partially explained as a tactic for whites to avoid the negative consequences of being labeled “white.” Today, homosexuals, bisexuals, transgenders and other more exotic labels are used not just to describe those who practice certain sexual behaviors, but to designate people entitled to benefits, set-asides, privileges, and official protections. There has already been affirmative action for homosexuals at at least one school. Does such a policy require official verification? If so, how?

It’s tempting to say such an irrational system will eventually crumble under its sheer absurdity, or as the number of the “oppressed” swells far beyond the number of “oppressor” whites. Yet anti-white racial preferences continue in South Africa even to this day, and there are continuous calls for more to be done to remedy inequality. When South Africa runs out of whites it may start discriminating against “privileged” South Africans of Indian origin.
47   Patrick   2023 Jun 11, 10:26am  

https://twitter.com/American_Mully/status/1667693012049346561


@American_Mully

Indigenous American woman here, and the only people who discriminate against me are liberals. White and black liberals primarily. In my experience, most African Americans who vote Democrat are racist, more racist than any white conservative I’ve encountered.

5:39 PM · Jun 10, 2023
49   AD   2023 Jun 23, 10:40pm  

This comedian Bill Hicks was ahead of his time. Too bad he left so early when he died of cancer in 1994.

Below is from his Wikipedia page.

I know the Rich Wicks types would love a comedian like this.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hicks was strongly against political correctness, and jokingly stated that the politically correct should be "hunted down and killed."

Hicks often discussed popular conspiracy theories in his performances, most notably the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He mocked the Warren Report and the official version of Lee Harvey Oswald as a "lone nut assassin." He also questioned the guilt of David Koresh and the Branch Davidian compound during the Waco Siege. Hicks ended some of his shows, especially those being recorded in front of larger audiences as albums, with a mock "assassination" of himself on stage, making gunshot sound effects into the microphone while falling to the ground.
54   GNL   2023 Jul 5, 6:30pm  

AmericanKulak says





I can't help but believe that the democrat party is for grifters and the low IQ crowd. It's really that simple.
62   HeadSet   2023 Aug 3, 11:35am  

Trollhole says





Ok, then how about "I want to live on a plantation."
63   Patrick   2023 Aug 4, 5:33pm  

Given that black men are about 20x more likely to violently assault you than white men are, it seems reasonable to want to get away from them.

The majority of black men are not likely to bother you, but enough are that the statistics matter for your safety.
65   Patrick   2023 Aug 8, 3:35pm  

https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/black-supremacist-teacher-with-history?publication_id=824253&post_id=135846451&isFreemail=true


"Black supremacist" teacher with history of racist tweets is fired after bragging that she wouldn't get fired

Yesterday I came across some disturbing posts on social media. A woman who claimed to be a teacher in Texas went on an insane anti-white racist tirade after finding out her sister was sleeping with a white man. To add to that, she had the words “black supremacist” in her X (Twitter) bio. The content was horrific but the fact that she was a teacher made it 1,000x worse. In her messages, she had called upon her boyfriend to come kill this white man for her.

I posted a video compiling her tweets and videos to X. It quickly went viral because the content was just so shocking. ...

Users immediately went to work trying to identify where this woman teaches.

The teacher, “Claire Kyle” was not worried in the slightest of losing her job and spent her first day back at school taunting users on social media.




It was eventually discovered that she worked as a first grade teacher in Thompson Elementary School in Mesquite, Texas. Then, a 6-year-old Google review came to light where a former student claimed she was bullied for being white. This was not looking good for Thompson Elementary School! ...

So a bunch of 8-year-old white kids were being educated by a “black supremacist” who proudly wrote on social media that “I love being racist!” Young, innocent, impressionable kids should not be in that environment!




“Claire Kyle” eventually deleted her account but not before reminding us that she will for sure not be fired because she’s a good teacher and the school board has her back.




Then, this afternoon, the school district put out a statement saying she has been fired and was not eligible for rehire. So much for never being unemployed!




And so, the school year is off to a great start… Racists who conspire to murder people because they don’t like the color of their skin should not be teaching kids.

Another one bites the dust.

So long, “Claire!”
67   stereotomy   2023 Aug 9, 9:49am  

Al the libtards need to familiarize themselves with the aphorism "No good deed goes unpunished." To which I might add that idiotic deeds are punished even more severely.
71   richwicks   2023 Aug 20, 9:40am  

stereotomy says

Patrick says






Fuck Yeah!


Every notice that all the "Persons of Color" that were mascots for various brands (Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben's, the Land-o-Lakes squaw) were all removed but all the white ones remained?



I wonder how long it will take for them to claim that removing all the "POC" mascots was racist?
72   HeadSet   2023 Aug 20, 2:00pm  

Nothing really racist about Blacks on product labels, it was an indication of quality food by a good cook. They were trying to sell, after all.


73   stereotomy   2023 Aug 21, 12:09pm  

richwicks says

Every notice that all the "Persons of Color" that were mascots for various brands (Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben's, the Land-o-Lakes squaw) were all removed but all the white ones remained?

I wonder how long it will take for them to claim that removing all the "POC" mascots was racist?

That's step 2.
74   Patrick   2023 Aug 28, 1:30pm  

https://www.amren.com/news/2023/08/corporate-americas-campaign-of-white-displacement/


The United States government makes no secret of its racial preferences. It prefers to give its business to companies run by non-whites, and that increases the value of those companies. Financial markets in this country (of the “free minds and free markets” that had long been the battle-cry of the old Chicago Board of Trade) are quiveringly alert to the weight of the government’s thumb in assessing valuations. ...

He even saw an abstract connection between patents and minority preferences: A government-enforced monopoly makes patents valuable; government preferences for minority companies make them more valuable. ...

My mission was to find a way to make money from racial preferences.

In laying the groundwork for our “diversity” business silo, I learned that corporate America has undertaken white displacement seriously and efficiently, and even more so than is generally realized. However, there are hard limits to the nonsense our commercial overlords will tolerate, even in the sacred name of diversity. ...

It’s my impression, however, that white female-owned businesses can be competitive without preferences, and thus tended to under-use the preferences available to them. This may not reflect intrinsic nobility as much as it does the fact that preferences are, paradoxically, not without cost. Time must be spent on forms and propaganda and interaction with more than ordinarily useless bureaucrats. Competent white women might have thought the return was not worth the cost. For the incompetent, of course, preferences represented the best potential investment of time. ...

Corporate America’s campaign of white displacement faces a serious obstacle: There are many roles minority vendors cannot fill, especially in technology. However, white vendors who cannot easily be replaced can be forced to replace their white vendors. ...

In other words, when it is impossible to discriminate against whites, it is possible to require those whites to discriminate against other whites. This discrimination is monitored closely. White vendors are expected to implement ambitious minority supplier recruitment programs (from templates created by the Fortune 500 customer) and are required to report progress in excruciating detail. Excuses are not accepted. (This has the collateral effect of imposing burdensome compliance costs on productive whites.)

Racial preferences thus permeate the supply chains of virtually all Fortune 500 corporations. The policies are intentional, calculated, and effective. Diversity policy is no longer formed in a corporate backwater but by the best and the brightest.

GM’s Chief Diversity Officer is a white man and a retired Navy Captain, Kenneth J. Barrett. Mr. Barrett was the Navy’s Chief Diversity Officer, and if there are medals for discriminating against whites he presumably wears them proudly.

I should note that my experience with corporate diversity took place during George W. Bush’s second term, not during the Obama presidency. ...

I was in an environment in which the only permissible criticism of any diversity initiative was that it was insufficiently radical. Fatemeh had a stock speech for every meeting. She would hold up a pen and say: “If you buy this pen from a white guy, what have you got? You’ve got a pen. If you buy this pen from a minority, you’ve got a pen plus diversity.” Sometimes she would say “diversity points.” Her minority audience would beam with delight. They deserved the business because they offered more to the buyer than a white man could offer. ...

Having done a bit of actuarial work in an earlier life, I tried to model the cost/benefit calculation. Assume a company like GM has the option of buying a special insurance policy to cover the payout on a catastrophically large racial shakedown. If what GM pays for diversity in the form of higher prices and lower performance is less than the reasonable premium for a racial incident insurance policy, preferences are arguably rational. ...

Despite the fun of running numbers and spinning rationales there was something fundamentally humiliating about calling for discrimination against whites. I also began to feel acute discomfort on another front. Our czarina was beguilingly charming, but as I spent more time with her I learned that she was very much a mainstream Muslim. For example, she insisted that literal impalement was the proper sanction for ridicule of the Prophet. At the time, my religious views made Christopher Hitchens look Amish, but not only was I obliged to demand more and more radical racial preferences, I was forced into professions of reverence for Islam. I felt like a broken-spirited POW, broadcasting an endless stream of lies scripted by a totalitarian enemy. ...

Of course, my boss Jim was not primarily interested in uplifting blacks. Uncle Tom’s Cabin did not have the same life-changing effect on him. His liberalism was cheerfully exploitative. He wanted a way to turn mass psychosis into profit and, for a time, we both thought we had found one. ...

We kept running into the same wall: Corporations loved minorities; the marketplace hated them. I suspect the dichotomy was due to differences in who gets compensated. Corporate actors could expect bonuses for increasing minority participation; financial gatekeepers anticipated losses on investments in minorities. ...

Moral of the story: There will be limits imposed on diversity mania whenever the vital interests of our commercial overlords are threatened.
75   AD   2023 Aug 28, 1:54pm  

Patrick says


Corporate actors could expect bonuses for increasing minority participation; financial gatekeepers anticipated losses on investments in minorities. ...


This is why DEI will triumph over innovation and productivity. And its just a shift downward as far as quality of life, etc.

Just look at how they have attacked the ACT and SAT for college admissions in order to give an advantage to unqualified demographic groups.

And its getting to point that it is enough comfortably entrenched that they don't have to promote propaganda that diversity leads to greater service and products and ultimately more profit.

DEI is all about "normalizing lower achievement and standards".

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76   UkraineIsTotallyFucked   2023 Aug 28, 2:26pm  

Patrick says

Claire Kyle” eventually deleted her account but not before reminding us that she will for sure not be fired because she’s a good teacher and the school board has her back.


It's not that they can't be fired. It is just that it is bureaucratically (and often legally) a royal bitch to do so. Therefore, someone has to do something that equates to an even bigger headache in the eyes of Administration than all the shit they will get from firing her.

And clearly, she did just that. I suspect her union rep or legal counsel told her to nuke the social media account because they at least know all that I just wrote on the above.

But by then it was too late.

Nice to know that the Administration at that school/district had enough brains to not shirk at throwing her under the bus ASAP. Smart move on their part.
77   AD   2023 Aug 28, 2:46pm  

Trollhole says


Patrick says

Claire Kyle” eventually deleted her account but not before reminding us that she will for sure not be fired because she’s a good teacher and the school board has her back.


Too much opposition to her as she got fired; there was not enough white liberal and militant Woke support for her Claire Kyle.

My question is this becoming more the norm ? Or are we at the worst point as far as this type of behavior or culture ? I pray we are past the worst point.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/black-supremacist-elementary-school-teacher-removed-by-district-over-racist-social-media-posts-mesquite-isd-claire-kyle-x-account-thompson-elementary-school

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79   Patrick   2023 Sep 14, 7:42am  

https://www.frontpagemag.com/racist-mayor-dallas-eric-johnson/


Equity requires measuring the “ratio between the number of black and Asian individuals per 1,000 arrested by the Dallas Police Department.“

Dallas cops had better arrest the same ratio of black and Asian criminals. And that may be a problem as black people are being arrested 11 times more often than Asians. Either the Dallas PD needs to find reasons to arrest a lot more Asians or arrest fewer black criminals. And what equity really translates into is much less law enforcement because fighting crime is racist.

While the Dallas Equity Plan proposed going easy on criminals if they were the right race, Johnson was conducting a victory tour claiming that he had defeated crime. That would come as news to the city’s crime victims. By the end of July, 150 people had been murdered.

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