Quote:John McWhorter, an author and linguistics professor at Columbia University, said Friday that most of the leftists proposing radical racial changes are racists hiding behind language.

“The elect are, frankly, trying to ruin this country although they genuinely think that they’re bringing us in a new and beautiful direction,” McWhorter told Federalist Publisher Ben Domenech on Fox’s “Primetime.” “The elect are not the woke…the elect are the hyper woke. Or more to the point, the elect are the woke who are mean. People who’ve decided that in order to make the world properly woke, it makes sense to defenestrate people, destroy careers and reputations.”

One of the ways the ruling class continues to force identity politics on Americans, McWhorter said, is through education.

“I’m not somebody who’s usually for apocalyptic rhetoric, but there really is a genuinely alarming takeover of education happening right now which is based on the idea that black kids and also Latino kids should not be expected to actually get the answer, should not be expected to be precise, and to impose the strictures of math upon them is racist — that somehow being precise, not to mention being on time and cherishing the written word, is a white thing and that we have to ‘decenter whiteness,'” McWhorter said.

This mischaracterization is not only dangerous, McWhorter said, it is inherently racist.

“If you had a white person saying all of these things like 100 years ago with a southern accent, that’s the sort of person that we laugh at now as this unreconstructed and repulsive bigot,” he said. “But today, somebody says it while watching the second season of ‘Succession’ and sipping on some Knob Creek and probably barefoot and they think of themselves as progressive, and that’s somehow supposed to be higher wisdom. It’s truly racist. Oddly enough, these people are racists in a new guise, where they think of themselves literally as Jesus.”

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The elect, McWhorter said, hijack language about social concepts and terms such as “social justice” to hijack words to push leftist causes.

“The idea is not to get a little nervous and hide in the corner when they say that you’re against social justice. Say yes, I’m in favor of social justice but what you mean by it is something quite different,” McWhorter said. “Meaning tends to drift from what words tend to formally mean. And then, of course, there’s the issue of racism and systemic racism, institutional racism — what exactly do we mean? Do we mean that the society is a bigot? Of course, we don’t mean that. What we’re talking about with institutional racism is that there are inequities…what the elect mean by ‘the inequities’ is that they must always be due to some obstacle that whiteness put in front of brown people.”

The best way to combat this false use of language, McWhorter said, is to stand your ground.

“The first thing we have to think about is how we can stand up to these people for the very simple reason that, what they do is they call you a racist and they know that you don’t want to be called a racist on Twitter and so you’ll do whatever they want,” McWhorter said. “We have to make it so that they can yell and scream as loud as they want to and don’t get what they want. After what would not be a very long while, they would start to back down and come up with other tactics.”

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So they are finally figuring out what weve said here for years.

Muh ivy league

Quote:When I occasionally complain about the Left politicizing race, fellow conservatives often say to me, “Don’t worry about this. They’ve lost all credibility on the issue, trivializing it by overuse. They’re getting no traction with it.” Oh?

You’d have to be blind and deaf to deny that this tactic is working for the Left politically and that it has caused great harm. Democrats and the Left bring up race every five minutes to demonize Republicans and profit politically. It is nothing more than a raw power grab.

Indeed, if you want to talk about shameful behavior on race, look no further than the liberal politicians and the media who smear half the country as racists daily because of their views on economic, political, and cultural issues. If you champion American sovereignty, advocate border control, support the indispensability of law enforcement, promote our free market economy and cherish America’s founding principles — and if your skin happens to be white (unless you’re a progressive) — you are presumptively racist.

The baseless racism allegation is particularly despicable considering there are few more damning charges that can be leveled against a person and that the persistent hammering of this issue does incalculable damage to race relations and overall societal goodwill. And don’t think for a second it isn’t leading to violence. People are dying in the streets not just because of certain incidents of police brutality but because way too many people have been deceived into believing that nonminorities hate them based on their skin color.

Those who pooh-pooh the threat posed by the Left’s relentless exploitation of race don’t factor in several important things: When you repeat a lie often enough, it is eventually believed. When you control academia, the mainstream media, Hollywood, and the fascist digital oligarchy, you can exert mind control on not just young, impressionable people but adults who are bullied and shamed into silence and ultimately surrender. (There may be a growing outrage among the millions of victims of these libels, but as of yet, they are not fighting back with even a modicum of energy and coordination.)

Many of you probably didn’t realize that the seeds of the infernal ideas of critical race theory, white supremacy and systemic racism began as rogue ideas in university faculty lounges, academic literature and, ultimately, the classrooms of America’s indoctrination laboratories, otherwise known as our hallowed universities.

These cockeyed ideas on gender and race populated all kinds of university textbooks and classrooms, which were more committed to agitating students than providing them a classical education, but for several decades, they were relegated to the academic fringe. Now, as the Left has become more and more emboldened, this insanity has proliferated into the mainstream of our culture and politics.

Democratic politicians and their media cohorts routinely make flagrantly ludicrous comments about race that intellectually honest people should reject out of hand. Instead, these views are being treated seriously, and people who know better are legitimizing this poison. The mostly fabricated racism issue is dominating everything, to the point that we can’t even focus on real problems facing society — and minorities in particular.

One of the greatest ironies surrounding all of this malicious nonsense is that the bizarre notions of critical race theory, white supremacy, and systemic racism are themselves racist. They vilify people as a group based on their race, not their individual hearts, character or conduct. They judge people as intrinsically irredeemable solely by virtue of their skin color.

Racism is not systemic in America today. What is systemic is the Left’s dishonest stigmatizing of people as racists. There is a strong spiritual component at work here. God created each and every human being in His image. We are individuals, accountable to Him for our behavior; we are not to be judged based on what others do. This spurious, categorical condemnation of people robs them of their individuality and dehumanizes them. At the same time, the victimization of minorities for crass political gain diminishes their individuality and accountability. Everyone loses except the political shysters who benefit from this acrimony.

Sadly, this wicked duplicity will not stop until responsible people of good faith of all races and political parties stand up against the corrosive, engineered pandemic of racial disharmony and truly preach that we are all called to love one another irrespective of skin color. It certainly won’t stop through the proposed remedies of endless wealth redistribution, reparations, police reform, and the self-flagellation of people copping to a sin of which they don’t believe they’re guilty. The Civil War and civil rights movement apparently count for nothing. The Left has an insatiable lust for keeping this issue on the front burner at the highest heat, and things will not improve until the Left is no longer rewarded for fomenting racial disharmony.

What we need in this country is a religious revival — another Great Awakening — but until that time, people need to get on offense and fight back against this false and evil narrative.

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Of course they are.

Schiff, we've (cons on this site) have been saying the same thing about Wokeism from the time it became the norm. We still have those who hold on to that lie, I was gonna say belief but if it's a lie it's a lie. What bothers me is why are we listening to white people calling others racists because they are white but are exempting themselves from this "title". People who are white and get called racists by them should get in their faces and really let them have it. Don't take it lying down, express yourself don't just listen with your tail between your legs. Schiff.

The “Peculiar Institution” in the South was often justified by well-intentioned elites that the slaves could not survive on their own. There were even a percentage of blacks who believes this as well, hence why we did not have uprisings all over the place.