The last words many criminals hear are “Stop Resisting!”
Today being the anniversary of the death of Eric Garner, it is worth contemplating the implications…
In rare, though not unfathomable circumstances, decent, innocent folks might meet a similar fate. However, innocent folks tend to heed the advise, and sort out confusions in the court system. Thereby avoiding the need to say “I can’t breath” on their way to the morgue. Here I’ll suggest that our fellow conservatives take a similar course when accused of racism by hysterical Left wingers, who are, in the words of Lindsay Graham, “a bunch of communists.”
“Racist tweets” has been the most repeated phrase in American politics for the last week, topping “manufactured crisis” and “Russian collusion” in frequency if not duration. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ran afoul of House parliamentary rules this week, by trying to turn the House floor into a CNN panel with the phrasing. Rachel Maddow used the image of your humble correspondent on Monday night to call the president a racist. The entire Leftist media, and more than a few coward Republicans, have been mindlessly repeating the catch phrase ever since President Trump told a bunch of America hating members of the House, essentially, “love it or leave it”.
Since these four communists happen to be “women of color” the tweets were condemned by the usual suspects as racist, and from there, a familiar debate ensued over what is and is not racist. As is par for the course, nothing positive has come from the ensuing discourse, for reasons a properly educated society should not need to have explained to them.
Many years ago, in a former life, I was guest on the Tom Woods show. Back then, I thought being a racist was a very bad thing, and was offended when people accused me of this wicked sin. The accusation came in so frequently, and so meritlessly, that I eventually decided it had lost all of its meaning. So during the interview I said to Mr. Woods, something to the effect of “When somebody calls you a racist, the best thing you can say is, ‘And?'”
The term racist has always been ill defined, and more of a tactic than a description of some illicit behavior. In recent years, it has become more of a racial epithet hurled at White people, not entirely dissimilar to words which would get you banned from Facebook for describing blacks or Jews. As the hysteria gets ratcheted up beyond any comprehensible measure, Jews like Ben Shapiro and Blacks like Ben Carson are similarly accused, and the resulting dilution of the terminology is, I think, a positive thing for the future of America.
Now, if racism were, as most Americans at least used to conceive of it, the hatred of an individual for the color of their skin, then the image it once conjured of a stupid, toothless, sub-human animal would indeed make sense. If it described, as Leftists today attempt to portray, the act of doing criminal violence to people for their immutable characteristics, then we could all speak with one voice in condemning it, and the truth is, even most ethnonationalists would join with us in so doing.
Today however, there is hardly a thing which is not thusly described. Everything from voluntary trade, to changes in weather, to the hard physical limit on the number of genders available, and the involuntary nature of their assignments, is condemned as not only racist, but the very scariest sort of racism, White Supremacy. In today’s red nosed, rainbow haired, horn soundtracked world, where a dozen legislators in polka dot suits pile in and out of subcompact coupés, enforcement of once uncontroversial laws like those pertaining to immigration and shoplifting are considered Nazi policies, and any place a person is held against their will, with the notable exception of the prison holding James Fields, is considered a concentration camp.
It is a natural instinct for the adults in the room to try and ratchet down the hysteria, but it is precisely that natural instinct which the malicious elements of our society have exploited in order to advance a most unnatural agenda. While you were trying to convince your communist adversary that you were not a racist, they were flooding your country with immigrants and pumping your sons full of female hormones.
It is no malfunction that debates over what is and is not racist get nowhere. The futility of the endeavor is a feature of its design. Imagine, if you must, a scenario where you caught your significant other being unfaithful, and rather than accept responsibility for their infidelity, they attacked you for not trusting them. This is a perfect analogy for today’s ethnic political discourse. One commits a wrong, is called out for their misdeed, and then assigns some negative quality to the discovery, in an effort to distract from their misbehavior, which they have every intention of repeating until compelled to stop.
https://christophercantwell.com/2019/07/17/outlaw-conservative-s01e02
