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Group Writing: Dehumanization in America
In December 2016, a Drexel professor wanted a white genocide for Christmas. He went on to clarify his remark by saying “when the whites were massacred during the Haitian Revolution, that was a good thing indeed.” A teaching assistant at the University of Georgia proclaimed “we had to kill some white people to get out of slavery. Maybe if we’d killed more during the 20th century we still wouldn’t talk about racialized voter disenfranchisement and housing, education and employment discrimination.” Another professor, this one from Fairfield, claimed “to be white in the U.S. is to be a perpetuator of the power apparatus unless one actively and consistently resists.” In an interview, a University of Kansas professor said that white people need to “re regulate” themselves so as not to commit further violence. A New York Times writer wondered if his children can be friends with white people. “I will teach them to be cautious, I will teach them suspicion, and I will teach them distrust. Much sooner than I thought I would, I will have to discuss with my boys whether they can truly be friends with white people.” Another from the Times compared white people to dogs.
Politicians are no better. The Democratic Party is full of racist demagogues. They are quick to call anyone who opposes them politically a Klansman or a Nazi. And we have a bigot in the White House right now. Up north in Canada, the Prime Minister has compared ordinary truckers and bakers (who brought them baked goods) to terrorists. And racist fanatics are running our K-12 schools across the nation. They are teaching students to hate white people. They teach kids that America is a hideous nation full of white bigots. Children as young as six have been told they are racist because they are white.
During his latest appearance on the Ricochet podcast, Charles Murray commented that his relationships with black, brown and Asian people, on a personal level, are fine. There’re others who have said the same thing, that on a micro level, race relations remain good. It’s on the macro level where the problem is. But with the way the media, public institutions, big corporations and Democrat politicians exacerbate and inflame racial tensions day in and day out, how much longer will it take before the problem reaches every single one of us? Some Americans, unfortunately, have already been hurt by race riots these past two years. Properties damaged, lives lost.
We are in very dangerous territory here. This dehumanization of a group of people in our society can’t go on like this. As we’ve seen throughout history, reducing subsets of people to less than human led to all kinds of atrocity. Black people in slavery and Germany in the 1930s. The Nazis’ dehumanization of their fellow men led to six million dead Jews. The Tutsis in Rwanda were reduced to cockroaches and snakes to be killed. The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia were very adept at reducing various subsets of the population to sub-humans. Nurses and school teachers were parasites and vermin that needed to be eliminated. Town people were irredeemable, no loss in killing them.
You might think I’m an alarmist or am talking crazy. You say Americans aren’t capable of viewing their neighbors as less than human, people to be rid of. If you were to tell my grandmother as she was being forced out of Phnom Penh, that her fellow villagers, those who shopped at the same market as she did, those who worshiped in the monastery alongside her, were capable of killing her, she would think you were crazy. But they were and they did.
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I think this is spot on.
It is also nuts for them to be doing. The problem is demonizing the majority race is insane. What do you do when it comes time to kill them?
Oh, and since many so called “Hispanics” identify as “white” then what?
A race war seems insane to me. White people grow the darn food. And they have most of the guns. How is this going to work, exactly.
It is all very odd, but you are right, Demonization proceeds Genocide.
Our public education system is the last component of this despotism needed to cement enslavement of the people by the ruling elite. They truly do not want to see the people united but they will fail.
From the link:
I call bullsh*t: Drexel knew what they were hiring, and they hired him precisely because of his extremist, even genocidal, views.
Has Drexel fired that racist? And if not, why not? Low expectations again? Low expectations are a defining characteristic of Leftists.
Being woke means you can only hire minorities, you can never fire them.
He is rather pale-looking, though.
It would be more accurate to say that leftists are the protected class–conservative blacks and Latinos and Asians are fair targets for attack.
But note that this professor was in fact put on administrative leave, after which he resigned. (But he is now a visiting scholar at New York University, which presumably has a continuing interest in the scholarly study of Final Solutions to the problem of Whiteness.
EDIT: We can be confident that Drexel put the professor on leave because his opinions had become a public embarrassment, not because Drexel actually found them reprehensible.
I am hoping (and see evidence of it here and there) that all people are seeing the light, no matter their skin color – that they are being manipulated. It will take the common person to push back and we have to keep doing it against these hateful ideologies. It’s how certain people stay in power. This is not the Democratic Party of my parents – they would have nothing to do with it today if they were alive. We were not raised that way. Faith in God was taught then and was at the center of most families, especially families of color. We’ve turned away as a society and world and here we are.
Fired?? Why hasn’t he been arrested?
Thank you so much for the excellent essay. In fact, I thought it was so good that I shared it on my Twitter feed, as I think more people should read it. I hope you don’t mind. Thank you.
I believe that the law requires very specifically directed threats.
If the race obsession continues, then at best…at best…America becomes something like the Austro-Hungarian Empire, about which historian AJP Taylor wrote:
The appointment of every school teacher, of every railway porter, of every hospital doctor, of every tax-collector, was a signal for national struggle. Besides, private industry looked to the state for aid from tariffs and subsidies; these, in every country, produce ‘log-rolling,’ and nationalism offered an added lever with which to shift the logs. German industries demanded state aid to preserve their privileged position; Czech industries demanded state aid to redress the inequalities of the past. The first generation of national rivals had been the products of universities and fought for appointment at the highest professional level: their disputes concerned only a few hundred state jobs. The generation which followed them was the result of universal elementary education and fought for the trivial state employment which existed in every village; hence the more popular national conflicts at the turn of the century.
A creaky and dysfunctional society like Austria-Hungary is the best outcome for America if the race obsession continues on its current path…it is possible, even likely, that the actual outcome will be something much darker. Categorizing people by groups and defining them by the single dimension of membership in such groups is very, very dangerous. I’m reminded of something Ralph Peters wrote:
“Man loves, men hate. While individual men and women can sustain feelings of love over a lifetime toward a parent or through decades toward a spouse, no significant group in human history has sustained an emotion that could honestly be characterized as love. Groups hate. And they hate well…Love is an introspective emotion, while hate is easily extroverted…We refuse to believe that the “civilized peoples of the Balkans could slaughter each other over an event that occurred over six hundred years ago. But they do. Hatred does not need a reason, only an excuse.”
This post is part of the February group writing theme: “Love, Hate, and other Feelings.” The March Group Writing Theme is “Now and Then.” The other long-running writing project is the the Quote of the Day, managed by @she. There are plenty of days available in both, and you are welcome to double-dip, posting a quote and commentary that also happens to evoke the monthly theme.