Obviously, to a segment of the population, RACIST does not mean exhorting some groups to 'kill cracker babies'. It means little ol' white men defiantly wearing tri-cornered hats.
It's guilt transferred by stealth and sleight of hand.
It's a weapon used by folks whose allegiances are not to truth, integrity and open discourse, but rather intimidation. They want you to shut your mouth.
The technique is one us older folks have seen for a long time, which is why it tends not to work quite as well on us as a group --- I hope!!
The latest round involves the tactic of calling anyone favoring limited government, individual responsibility and corollaries, RACISTS.
Now "Racist" used to mean someone who was willing to practice genocide for the sake of racial 'cleansing.' It was elevated to science on the foundation of eugenics, and was quite popular with those who would identify themselves as "Progressives" today. The Tinkertoy version of racist was the stereotypical toothless southern bigot under a white hood. But the movers and shakers came out of esteemed academia in Europe and the US..
"Racist" connotes visions of mass executions, gas chambers, forced starvations by the millions. On the Tinkertoy end, it conjures lynchings and church burnings. Regardless, being a "racist" eventually fell into deep disrepute, for painfully obvious reasons.
When the term "racist" today is applied to families at Tea Party gatherings, (families, I might add, who clean up after themselves before departure) the idea is YOU are supposed to envision the "old" racist of colossal Evil proportions, and let it stick to innocent folks who merely question the authority of the tinhorn dictatorial minds applying the perjorative. Works pretty well on the young, naive, and spineless. It employs the 'stolen concept' of the racism of old to shame you from a totally different form of peaceful behaviour today, i.e. not supporting the State.
I have friends who so fear being perceived as a 'racist' by their friends, relatives, the general public, that they abandon their own principles to conceal their 'identity.' Pitiful.
But here on the Front Porch, there is some somewhat cheering news. Calling folks "racist" as a tool does not have the same effect on many of its formerly sanctioining victims. We're onto their game. Those using the term to justify their own terror, theft, vandalism and murder are fast marginalizing themselves. Now, that does not mean that the tactic is going away, it merely means soon they will be using a fresh replacement for the shopworn term "Racism". Coming to the flatscreen in front of you. A fresh deck of Old Maids, you might say... Oh what will it be? All confirming that even parasites have to work occasionally.to feed themselves.
And now it's your turn. We won't let you leave the Front Porch until you tell us YOUR OWN thoughts!!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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Jack, reminds me of an incident a few years back where a black church in Dallas was painted with a swastika. This made headlines, but when the culprit was proved to be a young black hired by a local black politician, the police report never made it into the newspaper. And this kind of deception occurs daily, of course. Just about every article i have read in US newspapers has been slanted way beyond credibility when compared with my first hand, on the site when it happened, knowledge. Makes me sick. G
ReplyDeleteThanks G. It's galling, how the most morally pretentious and sanctimonious among us are the biggest liars and creeps.
ReplyDeleteToday the saying of "If you don't use it you lose it" speaks to a sort of atrophy of the underutilized, or the exceeding of an expiration date therefor reducing efficacy or promoting spoilage.
ReplyDeleteBut in the practice of warfare, be it against roaches or humans a different paradigm holds sway with "If you USE it you LOSE it" rules the roost instead! With pest control when you use a certain pesticide, no matter how powerful, eventually a biological resistance is assumed by the offspring of the offending organism rendering it less and less effective until it is totally useless.
Against us supremely adaptable humans the same is true. The "at first unstoppable" U-Boat menace in WWII spurred the development of surface ship sonar, the eminently effective Hedgehog depth charge salvo, and long range torpedo ASW aircraft rendering the Submarine service no more than an inevitable group burial at sea for those submariners in the Wolfpacks over time.
The same now applies to whatever overused specious epithet currently hurled by those ever-so-tolerant Lefties these days! They all will cease to work as intended. Even WORSE, they will no longer function when REAL Racists rear their ugly heads. They dared to wrongly use it and now they have lost it!