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If I Were a Thoughtful Racist
I got to wondering. What would a thoughtful, intelligent, devious racist do? What kind of policies and positions would he take?
A thoughtful racist:
- Would support BLM, as the ultimate result is going to be much more death and destruction in the Black community. Removing the police from black communities, defunding them, and restricting their ability to enforce the law is going to have a severe negative impact on blacks.
- Would be a supporter of Planned Parenthood and abortion. Blacks currently abort ½ of all their children. Racists going back to Margaret Sanger have supported the idea.
- Would support any dysfunctional black culture that glorifies, crime, drugs, violence, and promiscuity and denigrates black women.
- Would support ideas such as this:
that make those traits that are most likely to make someone a success in society “ White” and anathema to blacks.
- Would support the apartheid in our schools with segregated classes, dormitories, graduations in our schools.
- Would support Black dependence on government.
- Would work to destroy Black families and encourage those Black women who don’t abort to have their children out of marriage.
- A thoughtful racist would support a political culture that would try to maximize all the above.
So, who are the real racists in our society? And where do they find a political home?
None of those things seem remotely Conservative to me.
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I’m not real sympathetic to this excuse, and that’s all it is.
That’s just racist!
“I’ll have those n###### voting Democrat for 200 years”.
You haven’t been paying attention lately.
Exactly. I’ve witnessed first hand, through my church work, how the Great Society destroyed many, many low-income families — black and white, but especially black families.
Guess you forgot about “hate crime”.
Lastly, if racist thoughts constitute racism then we are all racists. Fortunately we can’t be prosecuted for thought crimes or can we?
Wow, good stuff!
So ok, I finally did a search to find out what NMAAHC, which apparently published the poster, stood for: Per Wikipedia its part of the Smithsonian system. Your tax dollars at work.
Actually worse then what I posted. Second half got omitted. Heres the entire poster…
It’s truly disgusting .
One of the gifts God has given me is a pretty good ability to ask about second and third order effects. A person intent on setting back the social, economic, and cultural development of black Americans (i.e., someone who wanted to harm black Americans) would design “anti-poverty” and “anti-discrimination” policies and programs just like those developed in the 1960s and 1970s. Such policies and programs were almost guaranteed to set black Americans back, and could be implemented subversively but effectively because they [falsely] look like their intent is to help black Americans.
When liberals talk about a whole group of people as if they are children who need to be taken care of, who, exactly, is the racist?
Had a family friend when I was a kid who was a very successful (and very white) surgeon. He talked about wearing jeans to the Mercedes dealership and getting completely ignored by the salesmen. Eventually, he went up and showed them his business card and ended up driving home in his new car.
The last thing you want the car dealership to know is you are a successful professional.
I want to buy a car when I was in the Air Force.
The salesman eventually got out of me I was AF. And an officer. And a physician.
And his eyes lit up.
Keep trying to make a follow up observation on @vancerichards comment nbr 42 but seems I’m not allowed. But for some years I worked for a fellow that was quite wealthy, owned an island in the Bahamas (no his name wasn’t Epstein). He, too, went to a Mercedes dealership wearing typical South Florida yard work clothes to buy a car, and was ignored-so he just went to another dealer, not Mercedes, and paid cash for his brand new vehicle which we then modified to burn hydrogen.
Let me hasten to add, I know this isn’t universal dealership practice.
Kodak,
This post is brilliant and should be expanded into “The Thinking Racist’s Handbook”, or “A Guide For The Thinking Racist”, with chapters that first show the success of each evil idea followed by a how-to section for furthering the diabolical goals. (Am thinking of something like Anthony Esolen’s “Ten Ways to Destroy The Imagination of Your Child.”) The book would be a great way of getting Thomas Sowell’s name out there as the problem for all thinking racists.
Of course, one of the most important chapters would be the one on the importance of continuing to keep the children of the targeted race trapped in bad public schools.
To write that one it’s important to read Thomas Sowell’s most recent book. I haven’t read it yet, but, it would have to be enormously helpful.
You’ll also want a chapter on promoting the culling of the targeted herd through defunding the police in their neighborhoods. The idea is to ensure that their embittered, fatherless males have every chance to gun each other down in feuds before they can grow up late into men and become husbands and fathers.
Some act in what they perceive to be the best interest of the country. What’s Wrong with Kansas?
Thanks for pointing this out. I should have done so in my original comment.
“The Thinking Racist’s Handbook” is a great idea!
Present the handbook as though it really is aimed at the aspiring racist, with each chapter describing one of the Left’s policy positions (though don’t describe it as a “Left” policy), and how useful that policy would be for keeping black people down. Chapters could include:
I would greatly enjoy seeing how the Left would react to such a publication.
The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics might be a good resource.
I was thinking The Screwtape Letters.
You could set the book up much like The Screwtape Letters, as a series of letters between a modern aspiring racist and a 1960’s veteran that’s been running the racket for years. You’d have to make it very clear in the forward that the work is a satire and that the protagonists are clearly evil people. I’m not real keen on the above title choice. It’s provocative, but I’m more interested in changing minds than provoking. Provocative actions get people that already think like you to pat you on the back, but they don’t change minds. You’d want to go with something like Wolves in the Fold or They are Among Us because what you’re writing is, in reality, not a pamphlet but a horror story.
Chapter I: “I’m here to help” (how the radical left has infiltrated the black community by posing as saviors)
Chapter II: It’s the Culture, Stupid (How the radical left has created and fostered a culture that perpetuates negative results)
Chapter III: Eating out of Our Hands (How to create long-term government dependence).
Chapter IV: The Silent Genocide (Abortion)
Chapter V: Racist Projection as Protection (White Fragility shields racists from criticism)
Chapter VI: Choosing the Right Cult (Marxist Wokeness replacing Christianity)
Chapter VII: Separate but Unequal (The Leftist case for segregation)
Chapter VIII: Not one of Us (How to push out dissenting black voices. . .Sowell, Steele, Hughes, Williams, et al).
Chapter IX: Race Baiting Like a Pro (Sharpton? Please, try DiAngelo).
Chapter X: Doubling Down (Repeating the cycle when your “solutions” don’t work).
Chapter XI: The Numinous Negro and replacing G-d with melanin. Seriously, why don’t more people this essay. It explains most everything that is dumb with our obsession about race.
Chapter 10, in that case, could be “Doubling Down or ‘All Just A Little Bit Of History Repeating’ : How to re-brand tried and true ‘solutions’ that served our interests in the past so that the opposition will be lured into attempting these again.”
We need to add Riley now.
Maybe the Handbook could be a group writing project?
Each person taking 1 topic to expound on?
Well it would be a great book. But it would be written by mostly white guys and therefore dismissed.
But see I think that’s what would make it so subversively persuasive. If the “woke” crowd (or Progressives, or Left) saw their policy preferences presented by presumed actual racists, and presented with the objective of furthering racism, the “woke” or Progressive, or Leftist might feel the urge to actually think about their policy preferences.
White Culture?
Hawaiian proverb:
Life is in labor (labor produces what is needed for life)
African proverb:
Even the best cooking pot will not produce food.
Zimbabwean proverb:
You have little power over what’s not yours.
Chinese proverbs:
No no no. Written from the perspective of people who wish to maintain and promote race and class supremacy for themselves and their posterity, mostly white guys would have the most credibility. You’re already being smeared as racists, well, take advantage of that.
If you guys are careful to reflect the following throughout the book, people are going to read and consider your arguments.
(1) Implied deep satisfaction over all the Democrats and Progressives have done that has kept people of different races separate and unequal, admiration for cunning and subtle new approaches they’ve used to accomplish the same prevention of opportunity they once achieved while being honest about what they were doing. (Past methods of oppression should be described respectfully. It should be emphasized that those methods, like fighting on horseback, were exactly right for the circumstances of the time.)
(2) Resentment and concern over the people, ideas and behaviors that could undermine the race and class supremacy you always maintain you want.
In case you do get together to do this, I’m posting the short list of books, later today, I want to remind you to look over again or study. (These are books I probably heard about through, or due to, your posts on Ricochet.) You’re the perfect people to each take a chapter and write this book.
If any money is made on the book, it should go to those schools that, I think, are called “Success Academy“. Those are the schools that Thomas Sowell talks about in his book.