MALCOLM X' STORY BECAME LIBERALISM'S STORY
“I don’t speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy,” Malcolm X intoned. “You and I have never seen democracy — all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.” Malcolm X
"...Today the intellectual elite of the West, in particular, tends to divide the world into oppressors and oppressed, and defines both according to demography. Many have reduced the history of the western world to an ongoing conspiracy of straight white males designed to subjugate everyone else. With this goes the idea that virtue resides only among the oppressed--women, nonwhites, and LGBTQs. These ideas have crept into the mainstream and into liberal politics. They were given striking expression in one of the last episodes of the Amazon series Transparent, when Ali, the younger daughter in the family, speculated that gays and transsexuals and "everything the patriarchy marginalizes" might represent "the new Messiah." (I'm not sure I quoted the first of those two phrases perfectly but I am sure I didn't do violence to the thought.) These views also contribute to the excitement we can observe in many quarters over the election of more women, gays, members of immigrant groups, and transsexuals to public office. This reaction goes way beyond a simple celebration that political opportunity has opened up for all, which of course I welcome. Certainly we can all be thankful that we live in a nation where demography is no bar to election, but I frequently also feel in the reaction to their victories a sense that only such people can really be trusted to do good. One of them, indeed, Congresswoman-elect Ayanna Pressley of my own state of Massachusetts, has stated this pretty clearly, saying, "People closest to the pain should be closest to the power." Not just "close," but "closest." The more famous Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes enthusiastically retweeted that line during the campaign. The contemporary campus obsession with the feelings and status of anyone who is not a straight white male also reflects this view.
"...Now the view that virtue can be found only among the oppressed has deep roots in our civilization, going back at least to the New Testament. "Blessed are the poor," Luke quotes Jesus as saying, "for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven," and Jesus remarked that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Many subsequent Christian authors echoed this view, such as the twentieth century French novelist Georges Bernanos. That idea obviously found its way into Marxism as well, even though Marx himself believed that the working class would triumph because it was their scientifically determined destiny, not because of moral virtue. Now I think it is as strong as ever, at least in intellectual circles. It also explains the left wing view that we have a duty advocate for immigrants, whatever their legal status, and the view that all will be well in the United States as soon as white people no longer constitute a majority...." DK
Why part ways with this anti white trend of color, now dominating American liberalism, when it is now already way too late really to even try to stop it?
Why not go the whole hog?
Why be half a liberal, which is really only half of something else once again?
Why not stay the liberal course of coloration?
Maybe it is because the white liberal male is now toast as an advocate for the liberalism of color.
He has rendered himself politically incorrect and thus obsolete by his own efforts.
The graphic was splashy by the Census Bureau’s standards and it showed an unmistakable moment in America’s future: the year 2044, when white Americans were projected to fall below half the population and lose their majority status. The presentation of the data disturbed Kenneth Prewitt, a former Census Bureau director, who saw it while looking through a government report. The graphic made demographic change look like a zero-sum game that white Americans were losing, he thought, and could provoke a political backlash.
So after the report’s release three years ago, he organized a meeting with Katherine Wallman, at the time the chief statistician for the United States.
“I said ‘I’m really worried about this,’” said Dr. Prewitt, now a professor of public affairs at Columbia University. He added, “Statistics are powerful. They are a description of who we are as a country. If you say majority-minority, that becomes a huge fact in the national discourse.”
Why part ways with this anti white trend of color, now dominating American liberalism, when it is now already way too late really to even try to stop it?
Why not go the whole hog?
Why be half a liberal, which is really only half of something else once again?
Why not stay the liberal course of coloration?
Maybe it is because the white liberal male is now toast as an advocate for the liberalism of color.
He has rendered himself politically incorrect and thus obsolete by his own efforts.
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