There's an elephant in the room here in this discussion of racism. The greatest manifestation of racism in the modern Western world is white self-loathing-by-proxy......a kind of white-on-white racism in other words. The racism of a frighteningly large proportion of our university sheep-dipped graduate middle class. This has dwarfed all other forms of 'racism' over the last 50 years and is in fact one of the great central pillars of the Western 'social justice' religion which I discussed recently in this essay: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/the-madness-of-intelligentsias
Racism or masochism or modern Flagellants showing the way to a holier world (while letting everyone else know how much more pure and righteous they are)? lol
In the Social Justice heresy everyone gets to be Jesus for a day, climb the cross, take some selfies, give a speech, "raise awareness" (of themselves).
Western liberals have to be better people than their political opponents, they hate themselves more!
White liberals may be less likely to SAY that they don't want to live around blacks, but they are more likely to ACT on such a dictum.
By itself, I don't think there's anything wrong with the behavior -- at all. Call it racism or not, this is simply normal in-group preference.
What's troubling, however, is their insistence on acting this way while refusing to acknowledge that they're doing it, and in fact using their attitudes as a cudgel against anyone who can't afford to make their race-segregated choices, but is candid in preferring to do so.
As Dickens noted two centuries ago, "telescopic philanthropy" is a privilege of the wealthy.
I think at this point "racism" is another of the words that's been chewed so long it's lost all flavor and meaning—similar words being "fascist" or "trauma" or "harm".
But regardless of -ism, white liberals have been blatantly obviously warped by their racial obsession, which is rooted in Civil Rights morality and makes race, racism, xenophobia/xenophilia the most important factor and moral hinge of every person, place, event or thing, living or dead.
My corner of the world is books and book publishing and here it's obvious every day how upscale white liberals have fetishized and commodified black pain, they speak about black/brown people in hushed reverential tones like they were sacred totems or unseen gods weighing every word and thought for their sins against historical pain. No wonder why these people are so neurotic!
The way white liberals treat black people reminds me a lot of the old Jerry Lewis telethons—Jerry and some celebs bring some poor souls onstage, applaud them for their bravery, write a big check and shed a few tears, then head back to their limos with polished halos.
Treating black people as sacred cows packed with symbolic meaning about everything from America to yourself etc has done them no favors and is degrading to everyone involved. The best thing white liberals could do for black people is to treat them like normal people w normal concerns, with respect instead of anxious condescension.
"So what’s the definition I have in mind? It’s this. Racism is “treating people differently because of their race” (rather than because race happens to correlated with other variables, like criminality or worker productivity)."
That is a pretty good definition, but the term has been so bastardized that it is meaningless. The word has been thrown around with abandon in an effort to end any study or conversation about race reality.
He slanders White Southerns and pushes the exact same Open Borders immigration to the West , supports our people s replacement here and in the UK , Europe . He s as bad as the worst Neo Con Je&s
The actions of the democrat party result in negative long term effects on minority populations in the United States but they are not racist, just incompetent and malicious. Calling them racist is fun and we should all do it very often until the world loses all meaning with whatever justification feels appropriate at the time
I think it is important to clearly state what the "racism" means now for the academic left. Racism is "whites seek to maintain the racial status quo, they are fighting to maintain a racial hierarchy, one that privileges their group, often at the expense of other racial and ethnic groups" (ashley jardina)
It is not about treating one race differently than another. It is about "maintaining the status quo racial hierarchy"
They are, of course, smuggling in the existence of a racial hierarchy and that hiding that "keeping Japan Japanese" might be a "racial hierarchy" but it also be a fine thing for Japan to do
There's an elephant in the room here in this discussion of racism. The greatest manifestation of racism in the modern Western world is white self-loathing-by-proxy......a kind of white-on-white racism in other words. The racism of a frighteningly large proportion of our university sheep-dipped graduate middle class. This has dwarfed all other forms of 'racism' over the last 50 years and is in fact one of the great central pillars of the Western 'social justice' religion which I discussed recently in this essay: https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/the-madness-of-intelligentsias
Racism or masochism or modern Flagellants showing the way to a holier world (while letting everyone else know how much more pure and righteous they are)? lol
In the Social Justice heresy everyone gets to be Jesus for a day, climb the cross, take some selfies, give a speech, "raise awareness" (of themselves).
Western liberals have to be better people than their political opponents, they hate themselves more!
White liberals may be less likely to SAY that they don't want to live around blacks, but they are more likely to ACT on such a dictum.
By itself, I don't think there's anything wrong with the behavior -- at all. Call it racism or not, this is simply normal in-group preference.
What's troubling, however, is their insistence on acting this way while refusing to acknowledge that they're doing it, and in fact using their attitudes as a cudgel against anyone who can't afford to make their race-segregated choices, but is candid in preferring to do so.
As Dickens noted two centuries ago, "telescopic philanthropy" is a privilege of the wealthy.
I think at this point "racism" is another of the words that's been chewed so long it's lost all flavor and meaning—similar words being "fascist" or "trauma" or "harm".
But regardless of -ism, white liberals have been blatantly obviously warped by their racial obsession, which is rooted in Civil Rights morality and makes race, racism, xenophobia/xenophilia the most important factor and moral hinge of every person, place, event or thing, living or dead.
My corner of the world is books and book publishing and here it's obvious every day how upscale white liberals have fetishized and commodified black pain, they speak about black/brown people in hushed reverential tones like they were sacred totems or unseen gods weighing every word and thought for their sins against historical pain. No wonder why these people are so neurotic!
The way white liberals treat black people reminds me a lot of the old Jerry Lewis telethons—Jerry and some celebs bring some poor souls onstage, applaud them for their bravery, write a big check and shed a few tears, then head back to their limos with polished halos.
Treating black people as sacred cows packed with symbolic meaning about everything from America to yourself etc has done them no favors and is degrading to everyone involved. The best thing white liberals could do for black people is to treat them like normal people w normal concerns, with respect instead of anxious condescension.
"So what’s the definition I have in mind? It’s this. Racism is “treating people differently because of their race” (rather than because race happens to correlated with other variables, like criminality or worker productivity)."
That is a pretty good definition, but the term has been so bastardized that it is meaningless. The word has been thrown around with abandon in an effort to end any study or conversation about race reality.
Maybe I'd even refine this just a bit...
"treating people differently because of their race [BY POLICY]”
I detest that Brown turf Pakistani D Nesh D Suza
He slanders White Southerns and pushes the exact same Open Borders immigration to the West , supports our people s replacement here and in the UK , Europe . He s as bad as the worst Neo Con Je&s
The actions of the democrat party result in negative long term effects on minority populations in the United States but they are not racist, just incompetent and malicious. Calling them racist is fun and we should all do it very often until the world loses all meaning with whatever justification feels appropriate at the time
I think it is important to clearly state what the "racism" means now for the academic left. Racism is "whites seek to maintain the racial status quo, they are fighting to maintain a racial hierarchy, one that privileges their group, often at the expense of other racial and ethnic groups" (ashley jardina)
It is not about treating one race differently than another. It is about "maintaining the status quo racial hierarchy"
They are, of course, smuggling in the existence of a racial hierarchy and that hiding that "keeping Japan Japanese" might be a "racial hierarchy" but it also be a fine thing for Japan to do
Uh, yes.