The New Rules
Everything is racist. Just confess, for God’s sake.
[ Added, via the comments: ]So, to summarise. If you dismiss people based solely on their skin colour, that’s racist. But if you don’t dismiss people based solely on their skin colour, that’s racist too. Having a family dinner on Columbus Day is an act of “covert white supremacy,” and loaning money to people who are likely to repay you, as opposed to those who aren’t, is also racist and proof of “white supremacy.” If you have reservations about unlimited immigration, that’s racist. If you suggest that non-white people can be racist, that’s racist. If you fail to be outraged by so-called “cultural appropriation,” that’s racist. And if you dare to argue that you aren’t in fact racist, that’s racist too.
Oh, and if you don’t instantly believe whatever a brown-skinned person says, anything at all, however improbable – including the demented conspiracy theories of one Dr Dwight Turner – then obviously you’re seething with “unconscious racism.”
http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2018/06/seymour-hersh-on-trump-phenomenon.html?m=0
Lifespan of a Lie
“The Maoist struggle sessions are not a means to an end, but the end in and of itself, in other words?”
The purpose of terror is not to establish and safeguard a utopian reform: its purpose is to empower terrorists.
The bits of Chile I’ve been to are fine.
Never been to Chile, but the Chileans I have met don’t give the impression it is a shit hole.
As usual, do people want to get in or out, that’s the real test: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/amid-record-numbers-arrivals-chile-turns-rightward-immigration
No surprise that Haitians want to get there, as Haiti is pretty much the definition of a shithole. However I was surprised to see that Argentinians prefer it.
Wait, what???
https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2018/06/15/sabastion-stark-transgender-birth/
“No surprise that Haitians want to get there…”
From that link:
“Meanwhile, low-skilled migrants, according to this proposal, would push more Chileans, particularly women, into the skilled workforce.”
By what magical process was that supposed to work? By that sort of “thinking” a doubling of the number of ghetto kids in my school would have transformed me from a competent physicist into Nobel Prize material.
However I was surprised to see that Argentinians prefer it.
More proof that, alone among authoritarian dictators, Pinochet left his country better off than when he started.
(Originally heard that from a guy who’s wife’s family was on Alende’s “kill list”, and narrowly escaped being rounded up by the communist street thugs, so there might be a bit of personal bias there.)
“…a guy who’s wife’s family was on Alende’s “kill list”…”
Un-possible! All my democratic socialist friends assure me that Allende was a saint.
Related. Testimony of Bret Weinstein of Evergreen State College before Congress.
Pinochet wasn’t an economic disaster, true.
It doesn’t follow from that he was good.
He didn’t need to stay in power for 17 years to stop Allende.
If I was picking dictators who improved a country, I think the Lee Kwan Yew model is better than the Pinochet one.
Testimony of Bret Weinstein of Evergreen State College before Congress.
Thanks for that. See today’s post.
More proof that, alone among authoritarian dictators, Pinochet left his country better off than when he started.
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to the helicopter idea.
“Pinochet wasn’t an economic disaster, true.
It doesn’t follow from that he was good.”
No, but sometimes the only choices are “bad” and “worse”.
Actually, scratch that. The choices are usually “bad” and “worse”. In 1970s Chilé, they were “awful” and “absolutely bloody terrible”.
“He didn’t need to stay in power for 17 years to stop Allende.”
Not Allende himself. But his followers, his ideas… maybe. I don’t know. I wasn’t there. But I can certainly understand how it might take almost that long to get the country back on its feet to the extent that, once you do hold free elections, the people don’t all troop out and vote for another nutcase purely because he shouted the loudest against you.
Well, the obvious implication – i.e., that if you’re going to be accused of racism anyway, you might as well be racist – is a little… odd.
If you’re talking about racism in the sense of putting on a white hood and burning crosses is people’s front gardens, then sure. On the other hand, I could perfectly well imagine someone thinking “Well, no matter how much effort I put in trying to understand people from different cultures and make allowances for different cultural outlooks I still get called a white supremacist Nazi, so I guess in future I’ll just save myself the hassle and only associate with people like myself.”
In the long run, though, I think the danger is less people feeling free to unleash their inner racist, and more people feeling compelled to. After all, if the left get their way and turn society into a feuding mess of racial interest groups where the nosiest and most aggrieved group automatically wins, the only real options are “form your own noisy and aggrieved interest group” or “get screwed over”.
After all, if the left get their way and turn society into a feuding mess of racial interest groups where the nosiest and most aggrieved group automatically wins, the only real options are “form your own noisy and aggrieved interest group” or “get screwed over”.
I think the growth in open White Supremacists is a delayed effect of the diversity movement. So long as the Powers That Be continue to promote “diversity” there will be a steady increase in them.