Racism Is Racism, Even With A Coat Of "Woke" Paint
I suspect the "anti-racism" industry of late has been vastly more successful than hate groups at fomenting hatred between people of different colors--though in the name of "progress" and "justice."
Now racism is put forth as sociology* (*"sociology" aggressively ignorant of science, like the research that finds children from "intact families" tend to fare the best).
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) July 15, 2020
Truly insulting to deem objective thinking & a work ethic "white" values. (Have they met no black people?) https://t.co/PUjBI8x0fN
Here's more of this racist tripe -- disgustingly, from the National Museum of African American History & Culture, apparently a giant celebration of the racism Martin Luther King stood up against:
Confronting WhitenessIf you identify as white, acknowledging your white racial identity and its privileges is a crucial step to help end racism. Facing your whiteness is hard and can result in feelings of guilt, sadness, confusion, defensiveness, or fear. Dr. Robin DiAngelo coined the term white fragility to describe these feelings as "a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves." Since white people "live in a social environment that insulates them from race-based stress," whites are rarely challenged and have less of a tolerance to race-based stress.
If you judge people by the character of their content, there's only one judgment you can come to out of these ugly generalizations about people with white skin: Those making them and putting them up in a museum are rabid racists...which I guess is now the fashion.








If you've got a better culture than what's on that list, let's hear it. The world has seen a few centuries of successful civilization with those cultural underpinnings.
Why are these people trying to separate Americans into this culture and that culture? Instead of emphasizing our commonalities, they highlight artificial differences and insist we divide along those lines, even if violently.
With what would they have the Judeo-Christian tradition replaced? What method of inquiry would beat the scientific method?
By the way, The Lady Tasting Tea is an interesting book about the introduction of statistics and statistical methodology to scientific inquiry. Bear in mind that it's probably racist or white-supremacist, too, since its origins are in an English tea ceremony at Cambridge.
Conan the Grammarian at July 16, 2020 6:59 AM
We're gonna see more Rachel Dolezals. "If you identify as white..." We're gonna see a helluva lot more people deciding not to identify as white.
NicoleK at July 16, 2020 7:48 AM
According to reliable sources, we should blame the Juice.
I R A Darth Aggie at July 16, 2020 8:01 AM
If I identify as black, lesbian female can I claim that any woman who won't have sex with me is a homophobic racist? Asking for a friend.
Jay at July 16, 2020 8:43 AM
Transphobic racist.
NicoleK at July 16, 2020 8:48 AM
On Althouse.com there is a recent post about the science behind whether diversity training helps combat racism. Turns out there is not much scientific rigor behind these programs. The real smart grifters have an answer to this problem. Scientific rigor is now associated with being white and if you try to quantify whether the grift is nothing but a grift, you are the racist. Grifters going to grift.
Shtetl G at July 16, 2020 8:50 AM
On Althouse.com there is a recent post about the science behind whether diversity training helps combat racism. Turns out there is not much scientific rigor behind these programs. The real smart grifters have an answer to this problem. Scientific rigor is now associated with being white and if you try to quantify whether the grift is nothing but a grift, you are the racist. Grifters going to grift.
Shtetl G at July 16, 2020 8:50 AM
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/387329/
I R A Darth Aggie at July 16, 2020 10:10 AM
Interesting that the "white" culture they define also fits the asians, Persians, Indians and successful blacks that I know and are my neighbors. If it is "white" to work hard, then what is it to be non-white: not working hard? Guys I know have worked hard, like 2 jobs or lots of travel or long hours. This is how white people get ahead. They didn't have time to hang on the corner or go clubbing every night. The traits listed are why the US is the envy of the world, why people risk their lives to cross the border illegally, why all over the world people emulate our culture (not due to imperialism by the way).
Of course I can see why "individualism" is bad in their eyes--they are all about the collective. You will be assimilated.
cc at July 16, 2020 12:24 PM
Saying hard work is "white culture" reminds me of the Hedleys, from the "Hey Mon" sketches on the old In Living Color sketch comedy show.
Talk to some West Indian immigrants and you'll find that hard work and striving is endemic to their culture as well - "Do what you can, until you can do what you want."
I remember talking at a party years ago with an immigrant from Africa who owned several convenience stores at that time. He told me he wouldn't hire American black people; he felt they were lazy. Immigrant black people, he'd hire in an instant, he said, because they were hard workers.
I was the only white guy at that party, so he wasn't currying favor or trying to fit in. Every person at that party was well-educated or an entrepreneur; some both. Hard work as a "white" cultural indicator would have amused them greatly.
Conan the Grammarian at July 16, 2020 1:01 PM
Saw that one too, eh. I think it was on the second or third pic they labeled private property as 'white' while at the same time putting all their trademark, copyright, etc on the bottom of the poster. Fits right up there with the one of a bunch of masked (white) BLM protesters trying to drag a black man out of a car while calling him a white supremacist.
Ben at July 16, 2020 4:44 PM
Gotta wonder what the backlash to this is going to look like.
NicoleK at July 17, 2020 9:39 PM
I think the backlash happened at least five years ago. The ideas in the poster aren't new. They just made them into a handy infographic.
Ben at July 18, 2020 1:37 PM
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