Across the Pond, the question of race was a major issue, and during the 1960s the Civil Rights campaigns for freedom and equality under the law of the land seemed to suggest that Americans had decided to enshrine improvements by law rather than face violent upheavals. The Radical Left, however, began to put things together, and something new and menacing began to evolve: it is called Critical Race Theory, and over the last quarter of a century or so has begun to be the dominant ideology in virtually every institution, especially universities, from which, in innumerable ‘academic journals,’ the virus has been spread, unnoticed generally at first except by those of us capable of recognising Derrida-inspired drivel as the agency of destruction it actually is.
From the cess-pits of academe and the ‘human-resources’ departments of countless organisations pour the weasel-words that warn of what is coming: they include ‘equity,’ ‘diversity,’ ‘inclusion,’ ‘cultural responsiveness,’ and there are many others, but what is clear is that the former noisy supporters of the likes of Pol Pot and his charmers have now hooked on to
race as the means to achieve power. The ‘equity’ they love to spout has bugger-all to to with equality, but is actually concerned with the seizure of land, savings, and property, redistributing them on racial lines, which, of course, would by-pass the white former working class entirely, leaving it even worse off than before. Proponents of such ‘equity’ demand powers to ignore or abolish any law of which they disapprove, and silence anyone not seen to be noisily on the anti-racist tumbril. The aim, of course, is to overthrow Capitalism, grab all savings, property, land, and assets, and, through racial identity, enforce the aims of Marxism by means the old German scribbler could never have forseen. So private property, the rights of individuals, freedom of speech and expression, and balanced law would all be jettisoned, to be replaced by redistribution of all wealth on very dodgy precepts, ‘positive discrimination’ at all levels, the ‘cleansing’ of all libraries and museums, and the establishment of an all-powerful
politburo of totalitarians with shut minds, hate-filled hearts, and massively destructive agenda in their programmes, all very far-removed from what the Founding Fathers of America had in mind, or what was achieved in other Western democracies over the centuries.
The programmes are already well under way. All whites are ‘racists,’ according to the theorists, and have been conditioned to occupy ‘oppressor rôles.’ Re-education is now demanded (i.e. indoctrination) regarding race, and it has already spread to gender. To be a white male is rapidly to become a pariah, discriminated against in the job-market, and ordered to deconstruct both racial and sexual identity.
It goes on, and, like all totalitarian movements........
by Walter Krinkel (July 2021) Gigantic World Folly, Hannah Höch, 1919 The Left, smugly attitudinising in enclaves, such as the People’s Republic of Islington or the supposed groves of academe as provided by sociolo...
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