You Have To Incite Racial Hatred To Stop It?
Great thread follows on the divisiveness of the current "social justice left" -- click on Iona Italia's tweet under mine:
How the "woke" left has changed: Went from seeking common ground betw all--including the "misfits," for ex--to what I call "having unearned power over others." The cudgel to get that is intersectionality--the Victimhood Olympics.
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) June 23, 2018
Great thread from wise, goodhearted @IonaItalia https://t.co/dh7npylMQD
A link to the book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, by Andrew Solomon.
Personally, I suspect that racial quotas and the obsession we're now seeing with race (and the competition to see who can tick more victim boxes) is causing resentment in people who had previously viewed people as people, not by their color or other characteristics.
Iona talks about how some of this plays out -- who gets demonized:
segregation & division. And there is a hierarchy, now, among marginalised identities, completely absent from Solomon's more generous vision. White women are demonised; straight black man are "the white people of black people" (& therefore to be hated); gay men are 'privileged'.
— Iona Italia (@IonaItalia) June 23, 2018
Lionel Shriver writes at The Spectator about recent calls for diversity quotas in publishing:
I do not like diversity quotas, in publishing or anywhere else. They can tempt HR departments to value hitting arithmetic targets over hiring competent workers and tempt editors to value category-bulking authors over the most exceptional writers from any background.
See how they've worked in affirmative action:
Although still defended by most progressives, affirmative action policies have embittered not only America's white citizenry, but also our large East Asian community, many of whose children have been actively discriminated against in college admissions because they work too hard, excel too much, score too highly on standardised tests, and make too many sacrifices of ordinary teenage pleasures in the interest of career advancement. These applicants have not only been roundly punished, but insulted as well -- for the only way that colleges have been able to keep admission numbers down among, say, diligent Chinese and Koreans is, as Coleman Hughes points out, to give East Asians systematically low marks on 'personality'. So maybe they're smart, but they're not nice or interesting people. That racist enough for you?The suit lodged recently against Harvard University by aggrieved Asian applicants is likely to land in the US Supreme Court, and I wish them success. Mind, the last time affirmative action came under the gavel in DC, the decision hinged on whether the University of Texas was employing quotas -- exactly what I object to PRH installing, explicitly or implicitly. Across the board, elite American universities have been accepting roughly the same proportions of each racial category for decades, regardless of variations in rates of application. By stealth, these schools are pursuing quotas, which is unconstitutional, and that's why college admissions offices are more secretive than the CIA.
Discrimination against the "right" people is ugly as fuck.
"How the "woke" left has changed: Went from seeking common ground betw all--including the "misfits," for ex--to what I call "having unearned power over others.""
Naw. They've always been petty little bigots. The blatant discrimination was always there. They just fooled people with their concern trolling for a while. Just like the free speech people from the 70s only wanted free for them speech. Everyone else needed to be shouted down. The key tactic has always been asking other people to voluntarily give in to them based on politeness. But they never had any desire to reciprocate.
Ben at June 24, 2018 6:57 AM
Umm... this article suggests that the hate you describe above is disconnected from another kind, systematically grown by public policy. Social justice activists won't get anywhere near the people most heinously affected by a blight so pervasive it is accepted as a birthright.
Radwaste at June 24, 2018 7:22 AM
It's a nice narrative, but hardly accurate - only works if you believe that history began in the 1980's.
Have you ever noticed how assiduously 'the left' avoids acknowledging what had occurred in the 70's? It's like the period from 1968 to 1980 never occurred. Maybe that's why we're reliving it.
boo boo kitty at June 24, 2018 9:02 AM
Some time ago, the gay publication "Advocate" had an article on whether they got the Matthew Shepard case all wrong. The piece was based on a book which makes the case that, instead of being killed by gay-bashing, homophobic thugs, Shepard was killed by a couple of guys he knew who wanted his money and were geeked out by a week's meth bender.
The article doesn't seem to take sides on the case, as far as I could tell.
The issue is what does it mean to the gay community which of the two ideas about the motivations of the killers is generally believed.
This is a very clear indication that when an individual of a marginalized group is seem to have been victimized because of membership in that group, there is a deposit to the moral authority account. Thus, it is important that Shepard be a victim of homophobia. Had he been killed by a falling tree, he'd have been nobody and there would be no deposit. And if he was killed by some thugs for other reasons....he'd have been nobody. So he needs to have been killed by gay-bashers.
If a member of a marginalized group does something terrible to a non-marginal type, it's s withdrawal. So that's why Shepard is a secular saint and Jesse Dirkhising--aka "who?"--is a nobody.
The same issue is discussing how important it is that the Pulse nightclub shooter be seen as gay-hater and not to a jumping' jihadi. There's no deposit in the second case, and it would lead to more islamophobia, too. Can't have that.
George Zimmerman, half hispanic and blacker than Homer Plessey, was an honorary white guy for the purpose. But Roderick Scott, who arguably did considerably more wrong in terms of self-defense but got off anyway, merits crickets. He's black and the kid he killed was white. That would be a withdrawal and we can't have anybody knowing about that.
Same-same Duke lax hoax. Big deal But when a white woman--Katie Rouse--is raped by a black man at a black fraternity house...crickets. Lost the deposit by That Much. Can't afford a withdrawal.
Richard Aubrey at June 24, 2018 1:58 PM
The idea that gay men are privileged has led to gay-rights organizations to actually refuse to allow gay men or gay white men the right to hold office in their groups.
It always annoyed me, because it's this insipid line of thinking, "In straight communities, men are privileged; therefore in gay communities gay men are privileged, so they must be kept from positions of authority."
Gay men are, by far, the most frequent victims of hate crimes and tend to suffer the worst hate crimes. Know any lesbian versions of Matthew Shepard? Yeah, me neither. 61% of hate crimes based on sexual orientation are directed against gay men. 14% against lesbians.
But gay men are just so privileged.
I should also note that even among heterosexuals, men are by far the most frequent victims of assault.
It's a mystery to me as to why gays rank so low on the victim hierarchy. The LGBT community are the only soi-disant marginalized group that aren't protected by Federal anti-discrimination laws. Sexual orientation is considered protected status in less than half of all states, plus the DC area.
Gays couldn't even get married in all states until 2015.
Gays are also the only group that's stigmatized for asserting their rights for public accommodation. These same people who would pooh-pooh a gay couple for forcing a baker to bake a wedding cake would bristle with rage if that same baker said, "I have a religious objection to interracial marriage; therefore I will not bake a cake for your interracial wedding."
If a baker refused to bake a cake because of race, the entire nation would be up in arms. But gays do it?
"Ugh! Why can't you just go to another baker?"
Patrick at June 24, 2018 6:58 PM
My beloved son is gay.
That said, gays have been pushing the rope -- when tolerance is no longer acceptable, and the only way to avoid a charge of "hating" is to celebrate homosexuality, then backlash is inevitable, and justifiable.
Jay R at June 24, 2018 9:40 PM
By the way, I can't recall the last time the gay community celebrated my heterosexuality. Having all been born from that condition, one would think we'd get a little more respect ...
Jay R at June 24, 2018 9:43 PM
Really? So, there's no middle ground between tolerance and celebrating?
It is sufficient to tolerate your gay next-door neighbors. You could accomplish this simply ignoring them, allowing them to pursue their own business while you do the same with yours.
And if you manage to not pressure them into moving out or resorting to more extreme measures like burning their house down, then congratulations. You have successfully tolerated homosexuality.
And the only alternative is to fly rainbow flags, attend every Pride event in your area, and constantly tell them how wonderful their homosexuality is?
You couldn't just say, be a pleasant neighbor, exchanging cordial greetings?
Though personally, I prefer my neighbors to merely "tolerate" my existence as above. I couldn't care less what their sexuality is.
Patrick at June 25, 2018 3:38 AM
Oh how I wish your next book was Victimhood Olympics!
Anne at June 25, 2018 4:24 AM
"Really? So, there's no middle ground between tolerance and celebrating?"
Yes Patrick. The LGBT community has made that clear. While they may take less in the short term they make it abundantly clear that nothing short of veneration is the only acceptable end. Any success is only met with more demands. So many people just don't care about their demands anymore. After all they are inexhaustible.
Also, congrats on joining the white males. Your patriarchy membership card is in the mail.
Ben at June 25, 2018 6:37 AM
Is this the book, Aubrey?
The New York Post ran a review.
Conan the Grammarian at June 25, 2018 1:07 PM
"The LGBT community has made that clear. While they may take less in the short term they make it abundantly clear that nothing short of veneration is the only acceptable end. Any success is only met with more demands. So many people just don't care about their demands anymore. After all they are inexhaustible."
A while ago, Larry Correia found an article where NPR was apparently offended at the entertainment choices of Americans, in that they didn't have enough Hispanics in movie production. He was interested in this because, being mostly Portuguese, he is considered Latino(!):
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Radwaste at June 25, 2018 5:40 PM
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