We are under an extraordinary blinding spell in the West. I used to be under this spell in every way, but I can see it now because it’s broken for me. What I’d like to know is how to break it for others.
The spell is this: Bigoted, libelous, brutal, inhuman statements that would get a person expelled from society and the economy if they were uttered about women, gays, blacks, trans, or anyone but white people, are absolutely fine to utter about white people (and especially white men, or men in general).
More than fine; they are often praised.
The spell is so powerful that it has enchanted the targets of these calumnies, too. White people, white men, and straight people, too many of them, nod in agreement when their alleged essential sinfulness is discussed. I used to do so because it made me a Good Boy among the self-centered and resentful crowds I used to be a part of.
The very idea that white people, or white men, are sitting at the top of the cultural power pyramid is ludicrous. We have to get over the 1960s hangover. The Jim Crow world hasn’t existed for a long time. The pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that statements from black people that anyone would recognize as say, “blood libel,” if they were made against Jews are uttered every day with hardly a peep of protest.
Same goes for the most extreme of feminist views.
Here are two examples that speak for themselves.
The first is sitcom actress Jennifer Lewis, star on “Black-ish.”
The second is a tweet from a radical feminist Twitter account that’s well-known.
How do you think we can break this spell? For me, I had to face a personal crisis that broke me before I was able to see the world differently. Are there ways we can help other people wake up aside from that?
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Someone needs to explain to this dingbat that sperm is needed to produce a baby and no matter what the crazies might think only men produce sperm. These are incredibly ignorant, evil people being given a platform for their imbecile thought for the first time since the Salem Witch Trials.
That woman is a menace to society. She can't see outside race, and can't even face the reality that her kids are MORE THAN FED. Maybe she should stop stuffing them like fois gras with racist bullshit. But what's worse than her? White people saying she's right. Insisting that other white people feel threatened by blacks. I see it all the time on social media, and I staggered through it at a gathering the other night. Why don't many black Americans want to work hard? Because SLAVERY. Get over it. Seriously.
The other day I had to wend my may through an essay by two black scholars at Brown called "Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons." What a piece of work this was.