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Othering Your White Uncle Was Just the Beginning
I nominate Matthew Boose’s article, Apologize to Your ‘Racist Uncle,’ for Post of the Counter-Revolutionary Moment. Some hard and tragic truths are spoken here:
“But nobody defended him. After all, he didn’t go to college. He never worked at a think tank. He wasn’t an expert. He watched Bill O’Reilly. What did he know about politics? Political correctness, he failed to understand, was about decency, not control. “Reverse racism” was incoherent; you can’t discriminate against white people! Your uncle didn’t understand how racial hegemony works. He hadn’t read Angela Davis (or a facsimile of a facsimile of Angela Davis, anyway). He was just uninformed, or maybe he was just selfish. He was afraid of losing his advantages. He was irrationally afraid of Muslims and Hispanic immigrants. He bought a gun to compensate for his insecurities. He was the butt of every comedian’s joke, a stereotype of ignorance and hatred.
But there was something pitiful about him, too. True, he was at the top of a hierarchy, they said, but that was a fading reality. In truth, he was the one type of person left in our society it was still okay publicly to despise, and with relish. And it was precisely because of this that he felt deeply what many others only sensed but could not express given their fear of losing respectability.”
I see this othering of average whites in the unprotected class everywhere. My diocesan Catholic newspaper published a column by the local CEO of Catholic Charities (a white man) that sounds like a confession written by a Stockholm bank hostage.
“As brothers and sisters in Christ, we must address the ways in which we are complicit and seek reconciliation. We must confront intolerance and compel ourselves first, and then our neighbors to rectify it.” [emphasis mine]
Appalling. I literally groaned reading it.
Our very lefty (white) neighbors’ daughter put a Black Lives Matter sign up in her bedroom facing our house on the opposite side of the street. She’s 16 and has lived as our neighbor since she was two. Played with my daughters. Irrationally feared our friendly, but enthusiastic dogs. Helped decorate our home for Christmas when Little Miss Anthrope was in the hospital having brain surgery in December 2013.
BLM is an organization that hates us. Hates us for being white and “privileged” and an intact family and, mostly, for me being a practicing Catholic. I’ve considered putting a sign up in our window facing hers that says:
Bullies,
Leftists, and
Marxists
But, I’m too civilized and I have a strong desire for peace that, I’m increasingly convinced, the Left will never, ever give us.
How long, oh Lord?
Published in General
It wasn’t so loosely organized from what I remember. I remember a number of organized protests in several cities, which were quite remarkable. And it delivered the vote in the 2010 midterms. It scared Obama so much he had to use the IRS to undermine its leadership.
It was a pejorative term for the people who thought that the Constitution says something specific and were actually serious about that whole limited government thing, even when it didn’t apply to Barack Obama.
A funny way to write “to silence its constitutional right to free political speech.” Just sayin’…
It’s a stark contrast though, isn’t it? Antifa burns down entire neighborhoods, while the Tea Party is stopped by lack of tax exempt status.
This just dawned on me last night, and I’ve been in a minor state of panic ever since. There’s no way this has a happy ending. Or even an ending.
Mr. C had the same realization a couple days ago and woke up in a bad mood. And he’s never in a bad mood.
The Left has captured a major political party and it will never leave us alone now.
Well, hardly ever.
I’ve been married to the man 36 years this year and I’ve never heard him express such negative sentiments before. He’s known by all as a sunny, optimistic guy, even in the hardest of times. So, “never” until a couple days ago. I’ll keep a count and let you know.
Exactly so.
That is a feature, not a bug, banking on you putting your head down and being politically inactive.
Exactly. And the House and Senate Republican’t leadership made sure the Tea Party stayed dead, holding hearings without consequences for the IRS.
What do you suppose these morons think a man from Bethlehem would look like? Colin Kaepernick? Should we give Jesus an afro? Or how about corn rows?
True. Food is becoming really problematic.
Especially marshmallows. I mean, they’re white! They must be racist.
To be fair, how many classic depictions of Jesus look Jewish? It starts with a valid (and hardly new) criticism and goes off the rails that it is somehow white supremacy. (Is anything on the trails today?)
Counterpoint, how much did Alexander Hamilton look like Lin Manuel Miranda?
You are right.
Blueberries
Lemons
Mangoes
All fruit. 😂
I could be wrong, but I believe the kinds of facial features that we would consider Jewish nowadays come from isolated populations that had relocated to Europe either during or after Roman occupation of Israel. Particularly in Eastern Europe, marriage between not-so-distant relatives was common for centuries in where Jews were constantly under threat of pogroms.
See, this would be a fun thing to learn about in a culture that didn’t attach far more significance to it than is appropriate.
But I’ll get both more general and specific. Nobody in DaVinci’s The Last Supper looks like they came from the middle east. (For example.)
(I apologize that my spelling is worse than usual today. I’m recovering from surgery.)