Tuesday, September 15, A.D. 2009

End of Cowering to Anti-Racism?

An inherently problematic aspect of the contemporary media is that they exaggerate the importance of everything that happens in the present moment. Thinkers as diverse as Nietzsche and C.S. Lewis noted how when one pays inordinate attention to every little thing that comes along, one’s sense of judgment—one’s faculty of discrimination—becomes dulled. The news business helps to pervert our sense of depth; it whittles away our ability to step back and take in the larger picture. The media exist to give us a snapshot of the novel and current, and such a focus instills an attention deficit disorder in a population. It is difficult enough to understand the causes and connections of any historical moment, even with centuries and generations of distilling. It is near impossible to understand one’s own time accurately, though later generations will not have the same access to the facts on the ground. Such is the paradox of history.

With that qualification, I do wish to ask if we are seeing fissures in the anti-racist edifice of the West. In Europe and in the United States, more and more people refuse to be cowed from speaking truthfully about racial matters. Wouldn’t be ironic if Eric Holder actually saw Americans’ speaking honestly about race? Perhaps having overplayed his hand, Obama’s radical Leftist presidency won’t achieve a post-racial politics, but it just might free public discourse to enter a post-anti-racist realm.

Parroting the Old Left, by my anti-anti-racism, I do not mean support for racism. For I do not even see how the word “racism” serves much use as there seems to be no settled definition for it. Anti-racism would appear to have the same fate. Yet, by anti-racism, I mean the taboo against speaking or thinking about racial realities that the Left has instilled among whites in Western lands. Anti-racism is Leftist doublespeak that demands unilateral ethnic disarmament by whites while it allows, encourages, and celebrates racial identities, racial grievances, racially ideological perversions of academic disciplines, and Marxist racial politics by non-whites. Comfortable oblivion among middle class white Westerners and relentless, ubiquitous propaganda by our Leftist cultural masters have facilitated such subversion. Might I have reason to hope that the day nears when most whites will see past the lies? Then, we may actually be able to speak frankly about racial realities without being a nation of cowards.

Posted by Joseph on Tuesday, September 15, A.D. 2009
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