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Found: White Americaâs Lost Moral Authority.
antifaHow to counter the Marxist left in a way that inspires conservatives and independents across the country.
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"Found: White Americaâs Lost Moral Authority.
How to counter the Marxist left in a way that inspires conservatives and independents across the country.
By
Bradford H.B.
on
December 14, 2020
Speaking on a podcast last month, English commentator Douglas Murray expressed exasperation with the conservative establishment for how it treats the moral claims of the left. âThe left is running rampant with resentment and the right is not playing something back with equal depth,â Murray told his interviewer. When the left exploits inequality to win popular support, Murray argues, conservatives leaders think âthey can respond by talking about zoning regulations or a specific tax issue.â This hasnât worked and will continue to fail, he said. Many, including myself, agree.
Calls for a re-orientation of how leading conservative thinkers respond to Americaâs alienated millennials and the Marxist left who exploit them have been bubbling up following the May/June riots. Conservative scholar and commentator Paul Gottfried, for instance, recently penned a piece lamenting the rightâs long-time failure in realizing that leftists do indeed see themselves as fighting a moral fight, and are anything but nihilistic relativists. âIt is unimaginable that the more fervent and more activist side in our culture wars is not driven by its own morality, which expresses itself in rage,â Gottfried writes.
Similarly, in a recent and widely shared essay, Yoram Hazony wrote that the Marxist left sees itself involved in a moral battle against oppression and injustice, one thatâs quite literally between good and evil. All Marxists, he says, see âunfreedom and inequality in societyâ as evidence of oppression, and âthat a revolutionary reconstitution of society is necessary to eliminate the oppression,â one that includes âbloodshed.â With that kind of dichotomous worldview, Hazony argues, appeals to abstract ideas like âequality before the lawâ or âfreedom from coercionâ (that âchilliest of virtues,â as Isaiah Berlin wrote) simply wonât cut it.
Minneapolis Black Lives Matter riots.
THE LEFTâS ANTI-WHITE ANIMUS
One can now witness express âEurophobia,â anti-white animus, or âwhitenessphobiaâ (as Daniel Greenberg calls it) pouring from nearly every major U.S. institution on a regular basis): major media outlets, places of work, governing bodies (federal and local), and schools at all levels. It would seem hard to argue that thereâs little cause for alarm when professors at prestigious universities are sharing white-shaming memes or declaring things like âwhite lives donât matter.â Or, when posters mocking white racial stereotypes are appearing in residential neighborhoods and storefronts have to advertise their non-white ownership in order to stave off arson attacks.
The toxic ideas borne out of Whiteness Studies and CRT programs have been shown to reduce the level of sympathy that white liberals have for the white working-class. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, increasing rates of white suicide (of both men and women) and drug abuse is being ignored. Political scientist Professor Matthew Goodwin told a parliamentary panel in the UK recently that the educational development among the white lower-classes is likely being stunted by blame-casting and race-shaming ideas such as âwhite privilege.â Addressing MPs, Goodwin argued that white-working class communities face a âstatus deficitâ amid a national conversation âmuch more consumedâ with other groups in society.
âIf we are now going to start teaching them in school that not only do they have to overcome the various economic and social barriers within their community, but they also need to now start apologizing for simply belonging to a wider group which also strips away their individual agency, then I think weâre just going to compound many of these problems.â
WEAPONIZING THE PATRIOTIC RANK-AND-FILE
Largely because of the leftâs decades-long project of putting racism at the center of every arena of U.S. policy and culture, to be racist today (or deemed as such), as political scientist Eric Kaufmann has put it, is to âtransgress the social norms which define good and evil.â When the charge is levied against the left (including self-loathing whites), they can be forced onto the defensive, just as conservatives so routinely are.
Failing to call out expressions of anti-white bigotry in conservative media or in Congress, however, signals that the left is off the hook for their own racism. Theyâre not, and nor should they be. Demanding an end to the leftâs bigotry will also go far in energizing the conservative rank-and-fileâa cohort long targeted by the hard-leftâs moral intimidation and long denied by their Beltway leaders an effective vocabulary to counter them.
Say anything...... anything at all...... in defense of white people and you will be labeled a racist.
Why do we tolerate this shit?
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