Mary Neal Changes Her Story Again

Although modify is sometimes good, this isn't one of those times. Overnight, the Us has changed into something alien, something ill. Wokeness has arrived with a vengeance, and it doesn't bode well for the nation'south hereafter.

In the starting time, it seemed reasonable to dismiss 'cancel culture' equally a bad joke, symptomatic of Trump Derangement Syndrome, a very real clinical condition known for unhinging even the brightest minds. Just the joke was told years ago, and nobody is laughing anymore.

The commencement sign that something sinister had infected the left side of the American cranium occurred in the unlikeliest of places: the college campus, the manicured citadel of costless thought and expression where the very idea of censorship is wholly repugnant. But that was yesterday. Today, university students consider it their solemn duty to silence any individual or individuals who do not share their (liberal) worldview. Peak insanity occurred in Feb 2017, when violent protesters hurled rocks and torched buildings at the University of California, Berkeley to forestall bourgeois speakers – including controversial commentator Milo Yiannopoulos – from addressing a group of students. From there, it was off to the insanity races.

In the wake of this collegiate brain rot, said to take taken root during World War Two with the arrival of 'Cultural Marxists' from Germany to America's unsuspecting shores, statues in the town foursquare are being toppled, 'offensive' corporate logos removed, and historical works of American art and literature forever shelved; even beingness so bold as to advise that '2+2=iv' risks turning a person into a social pariah.

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Meanwhile, the honorable desire for building a meritocracy – which, according to the inquisition, stinks to high heaven of white supremacy and privilege – has been replaced by a politically right mediocrity. In other words, America is on the express lane to Idiocracy, population 330 million.

This cult-similar craze, where the bigots are engaged in a strange competition to find new things to rage about, is no longer a campus activity. With the introduction of 'critical race theory', some other damaged production of the academic encephalon that teaches that all white people are inherently racist, the corporate world has gone full-blown woke to the point where Coca-Cola, when it is not pushing alternative sexual lifestyles on children, is instructing its workforce to "be less white."

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Meanwhile, United Airlines recently announced information technology will exist alternative white male pilots in the cockpit in favor of minority groups, because I judge enough planes are not crashing. That is not to propose that the flight skills of minorities are somehow inferior to those of white males, but rather that cipher good e'er comes when it is forced from in a higher place.

While this inquisition is obsessed with purging from American society any hint of 'racism,' or favoritism towards whites, information technology never pauses to consider that these 'terminal solutions' are fomenting a new sort of racism, this time against the white population. Although it may fly in the face up of the new woke math, two wrongs will never make a right.

In a timely and thoughtful article on the subject, the bourgeois commentator Victor Davis Hanson forwarded a question that must be on a lot of minds these days: "Can the great 'awokening' succeed?" Perchance even more to the point is, what happens if information technology does?

Examining the situation with Orwell's 'Fauna Subcontract' in mind, Hanson suggests that Wokeism takes it on religion that the white population in these post-George Floyd times will quietly agree with the position that "some discrimination is good and different from other discrimination." In other words, although virtually people agree that the former racism against blacks was incorrect, the sort of racism now targeting white people in the name of 'social justice' and the 'common good' is an entirely different creature, and i that even white people volition agree is acceptable.

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Under such improbable circumstances, Hanson continues, information technology will seem natural to toss around with reckless carelessness terms like "whiteness," "white privilege," "white supremacy," and "white terrorists" about all 230 million American whites, "in a mode that it would be terribly incorrect to talk pejoratively and collectively in terms of any other group."

Hanson asks if whites in the Us will happily condone blatant bigotry where, equally just ii examples, "criminal suspects shall non exist identified by race unless they are white," while, at the same time, America'due south most elite colleges can justify restricting "white admissions to around 30-40 percent of their incoming classes?" Hanson is of the opinion they will not, but offers no hint every bit to what that refusal may entail, aside from some self-inflicted damage. And here is where it may be forgotten that white liberals were themselves responsible for the woke movement in the first identify.

"The liberal white elite class engineered a system of woke racialism that they assumed rested on some sort of unspoken seventy percent white" who would blot the brunt of the anti-white inquisition, Hanson reasons. "[The woke white elite] did not sign up for a thirty-40 per centum white allotment that cuts into the white woke; that is, the expert and the morally superior whites." From this perspective, white elites pushed their woke agenda for self-proceeds while never suspecting that ane day, much like Dr. Frankenstein, their hideous cosmos would one day return to devour them.

For all the brilliance of Hanson's insight into the agonizing woke phenomenon, he missed a betoken that I believe needs emphasizing. Beginning, to subject an entire race of people to the most despicable sort of stereotypes, which portray whites as dyed-in-the-wool racists with piddling hope for rehabilitation, is unforgivable precisely because it is false. It is unfortunate that anyone would accept to labor the point, but US history is simply loaded with too many examples of whites fighting on behalf of fairness and equality to become unmentioned. Yeah, slavery was a horrible affiliate in American history, just it cannot exist discussed in a vacuum as though at that place was never a Civil War or a battle for ceremonious rights, or affirmative action, for example, and many other pieces of legislation specifically designed to assist minorities.

Second, information technology would appear that the entire woke brigade has learned aught from the harsh lessons of history – which should come as no surprise, since universities have largely cancelled such invaluable studies, go figure – and what can come as a event of ruthlessly attacking a unmarried race of people. Nobody can imagine a genocide happening today, whatsoever more than the Jews and gypsies could accept imagined one occurring in the early days of Nazi Deutschland. But so again, nobody could accept imagined just five years ago that white people in the United States would become the focal point of such an ugly 'cancel culture' hate campaign, largely fanned past an uncritical and complicit media.

Attacks of a racist nature against whatsoever group are simply disgusting, and it is shocking that such a thing is immune to happen in America, i of the most racially diverse countries in the world. It should be remembered that the U.s. did non go diversified by blow; information technology became that way because it was encouraged to happen past the American people, the majority of whom are (still) white.

It's time to terminate the race-baiting and find the real source of this racial discontentment before the United States finds itself with far worse problems to consider than the hidden racism of a Dr. Seuss book or the proper name of a pancake concoction. The world is watching, America; become information technology together.

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Source: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/521166-america-woke-cancel-culture/

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