Thread by @JewhadiTM

Are Americans Tired of Being Called ‘Racist’ Yet?

Michelle Obama makes her “closing argument” for @JoeBiden spectator.org/michelle-obama…

“Seduced by racial grievance hustlers, or hypnotized by peddlers of Critical Race Theory, many people lose the capacity for skeptical inquiry.

It apparently never occurs to most Americans to question whether the categories “white” and “black,” in contemporary usage, describe the kind of collective blocs of ethnic solidarity that permits useful analysis.

Certainly the 197 million Americans whom the Census Bureau classifies as “white alone, not Hispanic or Latin” are not ethnically homogenous, nor united by their social, religious, and political interests.

It is a strange view of humanity that casts into a single category (“white”) such vastly different people. Yet this is what the proponents of identity-politics “social justice” tell Americans...

that the nearly 200M white people in this country are defined by their membership in a collective group, just as the approximately 40 million black Americans are collectively defined.

How can we have an intelligent discussion of “systemic racism” in America when the nation is so vast, and the racial categories are so flexible as to lump together people with such diverse backgrounds into monolithic categories as the basis for claims of “structural injustice”?

But Americans never get the chance to ask these questions of the Democrats who hurl the accusation of “racism” like a Puritan in colonial Salem accusing his neighbors of witchcraft.

Among the many bizarre aspects of this 21st-century political crusade, perhaps none is stranger than the assertion that @JoeBiden is the man to purge America of “systemic racism.”

Biden’s record on racial issues is arguably far more “white supremacist” than anything Trump has ever said or done. When former West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd died in 2010, Biden eulogized him as “compassionate” and a “mentor.”

Biden didn’t mention that Byrd began his career as an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. Rather notoriously, in 1964, Byrd delivered a 14-hour filibuster speech against the Civil Rights Act.

Of course, if we were allowed to have an honest discussion on the subject, it might be acknowledged that no one could be elected to high office in W. VA. in those days if he wasn’t racist, although becoming a KKK leader was taking it a bit far, even by the standards of that time.

The question at issue, however, is not whether Byrd deserved praise at his funeral, but whether Biden deserves to be elected president on the basis of his alleged ability to eradicate “systemic racism.”

Racism simply fails to explain everything Democrats say it can explain, and adding such modifiers as “systemic” or “structural” is just linguistic camouflage, deployed to conceal this explanatory failure.

In her video, Mrs. Obama praised Biden as “the kind of leader our nation deserves.” Does she mean by this that Americans are confused and have difficulty speaking a coherent sentence?