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It didnât take the folks over at the Huffington Post long before they deleted their blog post, âCould it Be Time to Deny White Men the Franchise?â
Its justification for doing so was that its author, a Ms. âShelley Garland,â most likely didnât exist. In other words, the HuffPo editors belatedly discovered that they had been the victims of a hoax.
Still, given the staunchness with which the editors defended the article before realizing that they had been conned, itâs unclear as to how or why the intentions of its author are of any relevance to HuffPoâs decision to publish or retract it. After all, itâs the content or analysis presented by the author, and not the author herself, that initially endeared it to HuffPoâs editors.
And as HuffPoâs South Africa editor condescendingly responded to critics, the âanalysisâ supplied by âGarlandâ is hardly anything new or revelatory; in fact, it is âpretty standard for feminist theoryâ and has âbeen espoused in many different ways by feminist writers and theorists for decades now.â
Indeed. Only it isnât just feminists, but virtually all leftists, who hold essentially the same view as that expressed in this piece that HuffPo was all too happy to publish and defend.
In other words, that which powers the contemporary left is, ultimately, an anti-white and anti-white male animus.
CARTOONS | ROBERT ARIAIL
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As long ago as 1967, the leftist Susan Sontag bluntly equated the white race with the deadliest disease on the planet. âThe white race is the cancer of human history,â she wrote.
Sontagâs verdict and the reasoning by which she reaches it emblematize the leftâs vision of the world. The white race is uniquely evil because âit is the white race and it aloneâits ideologies and inventionsâwhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.â
America, Sontag maintains, is the proof of Western civilizationâs corruption. âIf America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization.â
While this is undoubtedly âa painful truthâ to confront, confront it we must. âThe truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., donât redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world.â
It is Sontagâs vision that âShelley Garlandâ mocked and that the Huffington Post embraces. It is this vision that has hardened into the Politically Correct dogma that dominates academia, Hollywood, our government, Big Media, and the popular culture generally.
While not all anti-white leftists state their contempt as overtly as Sontag did, we shouldnât be fooled into thinking that they arenât marinating in it. The conventional claptrap of âinstitutional racismâ and the more recent âwhite privilege,â to note but two popular examples, are but less abrasive ways of indicting whites for being the cancer of humanity.
Richard Wasserstrom is a philosopher whose analysis of âinstitutional racism,â though anything but original, is instructive inasmuch as it could have easily been articulated by any of his ideological ilk.
Wasserstrom identifies two types of âinstitutional racism.â âThe first,â he tells us, âis the racism of subinstitutions within the legal system such as the jury, or the racism of practices built upon or countenanced by the law.â These, Wasserstrom continues, âvery often, if not always, reflect in important and serious ways a variety of dominant values in the operation of what is apparently a neutral legal system.â
This neutrality, however, turns out to be illusory. âThe result is the maintenance and reinforcement of a system in which whites dominate over non-whites.â
The second type of âinstitutional racismâ is even more subtle than the first, for it is âconceptual.â âWe use concepts. Quite often without realizing it, the concepts used take for granted certain objectionable aspects of racist ideology without our being aware of it.â
What is this âracist ideology?â Wasserstrom explains: âIn our culture, to be nonwhiteâespecially to be blackâis to be treated and seen to be a member of a group that is different from and inferior to the group of standard, fully developed persons, the adult white male.â
Many leftists think that the denial of group differences, the ideal of a shared humanity that transcends these differences, itself promotes âracism,â âsexism,â and so forth. Iris Marion Young, for instance, writes that the belief that âequality and liberation entail ignoring difference has oppressive consequences [.]â
In present Western societies, âthe privileged groups implicitly define the standards according to which all will be measured. Because their privilege involves not recognizing these standards as culturally and experientially specific, the ideal of a common humanity in which all can participate without regard to race, gender, religion, or sexuality poses as neutral and universal.â
This conception of a shared humanity, however, is made in the image of the âdominant culture,â meaning it is âAnglo, European, Christian, masculine, straight.â
The 21st century left is defined by three convictions: (1) âRacism,â âsexism,â and every other form of bigotry and intolerance are the worst of moral transgressions and endemic to white societies; (2) Whites, specifically white men, are uniquely evil in these respects (the âcancer of the human raceâ); and (3) Such is the ubiquity of these evils that most whites perpetuate them unconsciously.
Given these beliefs, the honest and remotely intelligent person must ask himself, how can anyone who subscribes to them not want to do at least what âShelley Garlandâ proposed in her brilliant hoax article? The only solution, by the leftistâs lights, is to divest white men of all power.
In keeping with Sontagâs language, the only solution is to either drive the cancer into remission or to cure it altogether by eliminating it.
Its justification for doing so was that its author, a Ms. âShelley Garland,â most likely didnât exist. In other words, the HuffPo editors belatedly discovered that they had been the victims of a hoax.
Still, given the staunchness with which the editors defended the article before realizing that they had been conned, itâs unclear as to how or why the intentions of its author are of any relevance to HuffPoâs decision to publish or retract it. After all, itâs the content or analysis presented by the author, and not the author herself, that initially endeared it to HuffPoâs editors.
And as HuffPoâs South Africa editor condescendingly responded to critics, the âanalysisâ supplied by âGarlandâ is hardly anything new or revelatory; in fact, it is âpretty standard for feminist theoryâ and has âbeen espoused in many different ways by feminist writers and theorists for decades now.â
Indeed. Only it isnât just feminists, but virtually all leftists, who hold essentially the same view as that expressed in this piece that HuffPo was all too happy to publish and defend.
In other words, that which powers the contemporary left is, ultimately, an anti-white and anti-white male animus.
CARTOONS | ROBERT ARIAIL
VIEW CARTOON
As long ago as 1967, the leftist Susan Sontag bluntly equated the white race with the deadliest disease on the planet. âThe white race is the cancer of human history,â she wrote.
Sontagâs verdict and the reasoning by which she reaches it emblematize the leftâs vision of the world. The white race is uniquely evil because âit is the white race and it aloneâits ideologies and inventionsâwhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.â
America, Sontag maintains, is the proof of Western civilizationâs corruption. âIf America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization.â
While this is undoubtedly âa painful truthâ to confront, confront it we must. âThe truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., donât redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world.â
It is Sontagâs vision that âShelley Garlandâ mocked and that the Huffington Post embraces. It is this vision that has hardened into the Politically Correct dogma that dominates academia, Hollywood, our government, Big Media, and the popular culture generally.
While not all anti-white leftists state their contempt as overtly as Sontag did, we shouldnât be fooled into thinking that they arenât marinating in it. The conventional claptrap of âinstitutional racismâ and the more recent âwhite privilege,â to note but two popular examples, are but less abrasive ways of indicting whites for being the cancer of humanity.
Richard Wasserstrom is a philosopher whose analysis of âinstitutional racism,â though anything but original, is instructive inasmuch as it could have easily been articulated by any of his ideological ilk.
Wasserstrom identifies two types of âinstitutional racism.â âThe first,â he tells us, âis the racism of subinstitutions within the legal system such as the jury, or the racism of practices built upon or countenanced by the law.â These, Wasserstrom continues, âvery often, if not always, reflect in important and serious ways a variety of dominant values in the operation of what is apparently a neutral legal system.â
This neutrality, however, turns out to be illusory. âThe result is the maintenance and reinforcement of a system in which whites dominate over non-whites.â
The second type of âinstitutional racismâ is even more subtle than the first, for it is âconceptual.â âWe use concepts. Quite often without realizing it, the concepts used take for granted certain objectionable aspects of racist ideology without our being aware of it.â
What is this âracist ideology?â Wasserstrom explains: âIn our culture, to be nonwhiteâespecially to be blackâis to be treated and seen to be a member of a group that is different from and inferior to the group of standard, fully developed persons, the adult white male.â
Many leftists think that the denial of group differences, the ideal of a shared humanity that transcends these differences, itself promotes âracism,â âsexism,â and so forth. Iris Marion Young, for instance, writes that the belief that âequality and liberation entail ignoring difference has oppressive consequences [.]â
In present Western societies, âthe privileged groups implicitly define the standards according to which all will be measured. Because their privilege involves not recognizing these standards as culturally and experientially specific, the ideal of a common humanity in which all can participate without regard to race, gender, religion, or sexuality poses as neutral and universal.â
This conception of a shared humanity, however, is made in the image of the âdominant culture,â meaning it is âAnglo, European, Christian, masculine, straight.â
The 21st century left is defined by three convictions: (1) âRacism,â âsexism,â and every other form of bigotry and intolerance are the worst of moral transgressions and endemic to white societies; (2) Whites, specifically white men, are uniquely evil in these respects (the âcancer of the human raceâ); and (3) Such is the ubiquity of these evils that most whites perpetuate them unconsciously.
Given these beliefs, the honest and remotely intelligent person must ask himself, how can anyone who subscribes to them not want to do at least what âShelley Garlandâ proposed in her brilliant hoax article? The only solution, by the leftistâs lights, is to divest white men of all power.
In keeping with Sontagâs language, the only solution is to either drive the cancer into remission or to cure it altogether by eliminating it.