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Woke Racism


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2021 Nov 22, 6:14am   26,353 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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196   Patrick   2024 Apr 29, 7:25pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/farmers-have-to-sue-the-us-government-for-blatant-racism-and-sexism--again


Farmers have to sue the U.S. government for blatant racism and sexism ... again

Remember that time the federal courts shut down the Biden Administration's blatant disregard of the Civil Rights Act by trying to hand out $4 billion to farmers based on skin color?

Well, they did it again.

This time when they issued money from the Emergency Relief Programs to farmers who suffered damages during natural disasters, they allocated that funding based on both sex and race.

They even have a special form to certify that you're not a white male, which applicants have to have on file: Form CCC-860, Socially Disadvantaged, Limited Resource, Beginning and Veteran Farmer or Rancher Certification.
202   HeadSet   2024 May 3, 7:03am  

Patrick says





That is the perfect description of what happened.
203   stereotomy   2024 May 3, 8:17am  

I guess you can't have your Kike cake and eat it too.

Seriously, it was all this side dealing throughout the last 1000 years that causes this. Case in point, Christian churches forbid usury - > Jews have no problem lending to goys - > Jews dominate international finance - > People hate Jews.
205   AmericanKulak   2024 May 3, 5:12pm  

stereotomy says

Seriously, it was all this side dealing throughout the last 1000 years that causes this. Case in point, Christian churches forbid usury - > Jews have no problem lending to goys - > Jews dominate international finance - > People hate Jews.

Yep, the Fuggeri and Medici - or before them, Knights Templars/Hospitaler never existed
206   Patrick   2024 May 8, 11:22am  

https://notthebee.com/article/new-york-governor-kathy-hochul-doesnt-think-black-kids-know-what-a-computer-is


Gov. Kathy Hochul: "We have, you know, young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is"

People in the Bronx aren't real happy with New York Governor Kathy Hochul after suggesting that black children there don't even know what a computer is.

She made the ridiculous and oh so very racist statement at the Milken Institute's Global Conference.

'Right now we have, you know, young black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word ‘computer' is,' she can be heard saying. 'They don't know, they don't know these things. And I want the world opened up to all of them,' she continued.
209   stereotomy   2024 May 8, 2:55pm  

That cunt Hochul is trying to ban gas heaters, stoves, and grills. I guess the sorry ass shits in NY will have to eat ze bugs like Uncle Klaus sez
218   AmericanKulak   2024 May 12, 2:01am  

They didn't learn enough from the Female crap one.


219   richwicks   2024 May 12, 3:53am  

AmericanKulak says

They didn't learn enough from the Female crap one.


Like any of us watched it.

It is a children's show for children, in my youth it taught ethics of the extremely powerful. People in power recognize that, so they think they can change ethics. We'll see if they can.
220   AmericanKulak   2024 May 12, 9:32am  

Holy shit, the push back from the Paki Putz's article caused the Metro UK to delete it's X account:

https://twitter.com/MetroUK

It's gone!
222   GNL   2024 May 21, 9:31pm  

UkraineIsTotallyFucked says

This guy took on The View...and cleaned their clock.

He even got Whoopi to shut up and listen.

Reminds me a lot of Thomas Sowell, only younger.

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1773343158895538201

Never heard of him before now.

You know these conversations add up to ZERO don’t you? The worst people on earth are able to dictate the topics and are able to skew the judgement of the topics for maximum chaos. They are masters of psychological manipulation.
233   Patrick   2024 Jun 17, 4:52pm  

https://indianbronson.substack.com/p/when-will-scale-be-sued-for-discrimination


The United States Government requires you to never discriminate in hiring, unless… it looks like you’re not hiring ‘enough’ blacks, Latinos, women, gays, foreigners, disabled people, etc. Then it requires you to super-discriminate to ‘even things out’ and steals your money.
235   AmericanKulak   2024 Jun 20, 12:04am  

UkraineIsTotallyFucked says





Finally a new show I vaguely know is among the lamest and gheyist other than Bridgerton, which is pure femprolefeed.

BTW this episode aired years ago, according to a commenter.

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