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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"52"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1176742657441154296"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-16T15:59:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-16T15:59:12.742-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Whiteness of Woke"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“If You're Not Outraged, You're Not Paying Attention” the bumper stickers on a thousand SUVs in the upscale bedroom communities of dysfunctional cities read. “Deutschland Erwache,” the National Socialists used to shout in the streets of Munich. Woke compresses it all to one word.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWokeness means believing that politics is all there is to life. And nothing is whiter than that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hTGcWyhPBJo\/YMpX-nkdsoI\/AAAAAAAATTw\/e7o1xuXES7YHJMdaiaVJRbh_IXtXeoYDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1280\/cnn%2Bhands%2Bup.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hTGcWyhPBJo\/YMpX-nkdsoI\/AAAAAAAATTw\/e7o1xuXES7YHJMdaiaVJRbh_IXtXeoYDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/cnn%2Bhands%2Bup.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThose minorities who form the backbone of the activists and voting blocs of identity politics don’t care about politics. Identity politics is politics to white wokes and identitarianism to minorities. Critical race theory is only a theory to white people. To everyone else, it’s tribal hatred.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPolitical theories are abstractions. Tribal identity is very real. Wokeness is concerned with getting white people to buy into tribal identity as a political abstraction rather than a real force.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite wokes turned race into the abstraction that is whiteness. What is whiteness? It’s unconscious cultural habits and ways of thinking. The notion that race is a set of ideas rather than a tangible reality would be vocally denied by both white and black racial identitarians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe consequence of race as an abstraction is the transracial idea that minorities can become infected with internalized whiteness and the spread of multiracial whiteness. If minorities can become white, it follows that white wokes can become minorities by shedding their whiteness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhiteness is a racial consciousness, but based on Marxist power relations, not blood and soil, or genetics, let alone the crude resentment of the ‘other’ that lurks at the heart of raw tribalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory hijacks racism and racial identity to replace it with Marxist theories.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite wokes use critical race theory the way that elites always used Marxist theories to compete with more successful people of their own upper class. Class warfare was never about the rise of the oppressed: Lenin was a member of the nobility, Mao’s father was a landlord and a money lender, and Castro was a wealthy law student whose father owned a plantation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory is designed to thin out the overproduction of elites. It’s a weapon against meritocracy by the same mediocre cliques looking for a shortcut in the competition. Executives force critical race theory into workplaces to shut down ambitious younger rivals. Suburban soccer moms of dumber kids go woke and push it into schools to even the playing field.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat's whiteness? As the Smithsonian Museum of African-American Culture's chart of \"white culture\" put it, whiteness covers everything from a serious work ethic to self-reliance, rational thinking, delayed gratification, achieving goals, being on time, and, finally, \"competition\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGet rid of academic standards, intellectual seriousness, punish success, and the mediocre woke white elites who first created quota systems a century ago have much more of a shot at the top.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe inherent assumption of class warfare was that the proles were too backward to be a competitive threat. The racist assumption behind critical race theory is that black people can’t compete. If the wokes thought otherwise, they would be denouncing black people as racist the way that Asian-Americans and Jews are repeatedly accused of racism and privilege.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeing accused of group privilege isn’t an insult: it’s a backhanded compliment. Wokes pander to those groups they think of as inferior and attack those groups they see as competition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite wokes embrace anti-white racism the way that wealthy white lefties championed class warfare. It’s not self-hatred, but hatred of more successful members of their group by enlisting those below them whom they don’t see as competitors to bring down more successful rivals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the identitarian racism they’re cultivating among minorities is not theoretical or hypothetical. And neither is the response among working class whites whom they once courted and abandoned. Racial consciousness may only be a theory to woke elites, but it’s not theoretical to the people they’re pitting against each other. Identity politics is only politics to elites, it’s identity to everyone else, and in a country losing the commonalities of religion and patriotism, it’s lethal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBuilding a Marxist flavor of racism makes elites Marxists and everyone else racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory is meant to force white people to see themselves as an ‘other’ and to legitimize the idea of minorities viewing white people that way. Whiteness studies as an academic discipline exists to ‘other’ white people and minorities who can be accused of suffering from multiracial whiteness on account of their success or resistance to dogma.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOtherness undermines empathy and ethics. It licenses everything from hatred to violence to genocide. The more we view people as less than human, the more likely we are to do everything from cut them off in traffic to steal from them and even kill them. National media narratives demand sympathy for George Floyd or Breonna Taylor while refusing to cover the victims of crime because critical race theory denies that they deserve sympathy or humanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIdeas have horrifying consequences and leftists have a long history of failing to understand the murderous implications of their self-serving abstract intellectualizations. Only when millions of bodies start piling up do they occasionally begin to wrestle with some sort of moral reckoning. And even then, the reckoning is quickly shelved before it ever really comes into being.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome Communists turned on the Soviet Union after the Hitler-Stalin pact and the revelations of Stalin’s crimes. Fewer have accepted any kind of moral reckoning for the millions killed by Mao, or the Cambodian genocide, not to mention generations of massacres in Latin America. Nearer to our own time, you won’t find a proponent of Obama’s foreign policy who has even dared to suggest that the Arab Spring was a catastrophic disaster that may have killed a million people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe body count for Black Lives Matter is estimated as at least 4,000 when you account for the massive increase in murder and crime rates. Most of those would likely be of black people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeing recruited into a war of liberation by white wokes comes with a high body count. And the blood price isn’t being paid by corporations who sent out emails about George Floyd or sorority sisters holding up ACAB signs. Just as they’re not the ones who paid the price for the collapse of the family or the social structure of both black and white working class communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby, \"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.\" But there are fewer places to retreat to in a completely polarized society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EElites retreat into abstractions. They buy a copy of Robin DiAngelo’s book and Zoom into the latest call of the white allies caucus at their workplace knowing that they may not be good at much, but they are good at undermining those who are actually good at something. But the rising tide of tribalism is not an abstraction for those for whom identity becomes humanity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWoke is very white, but its vastness is illusory. The woke elites control corporations and institutions, but what woke is feeding isn’t abstract discrimination, but violent racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn California, an Amazon driver beat an older lady who asked her about a package. The minority driver had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/critical-race-theory-violence-woke-amazon-driver-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eaccused her victim\u003C\/a\u003E of possessing \"white privilege\" before attacking her from behind. This is what critical race theory actually looks like outside the suburban bubble of social justice dinners and struggle sessions which, grueling as they are, are at least non-violent.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Amazon forced every employee to take diversity and inclusion training. Even as the Big Tech monopoly is looting the American economy by selling it out to China, it's doubled down on virtue signaling, promising to go 'green' by 2025 and building an HR infrastructure of 'equity'.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmazon's new CEO Andy Jassy is a militant leftist who had previously \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajassy\/status\/1309176233117257728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1309176233117257728%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_\u0026amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fnew-amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-on-immigration-black-lives-matter-2021-2\"\u003Eranted that\u003C\/a\u003E, \"If you don't hold police depts accountable for murdering black people, we will never have justice and change.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe monopolistic tech giant subjects workers to Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) when it isn’t forcing them to urinate into cups. The speakers at a Big Tech CORE hatefest \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/amazons-inaugural-coreconversations-race-ethnicity-events-maxine-gray\/\"\u003Eincluded \u003C\/a\u003EBLM co-founder Alicia Garza, Farrakhan fan \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/carmen-perez\/\"\u003ECarmen Perez\u003C\/a\u003E, and Robin DiAngelo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut critical race theory looks very different in the conference room of a monopoly trying to launder its destruction of the country’s economy so that its former CEO can go off into space by bringing in a few racism profiteers to berate managers about their white privilege than on the street where abstractions of whiteness give way to vicious beatings of elderly white women.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond academic wokeness is the gritty racial identitarian reality of tribal violence and murder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Amazon and other Big Tech monopolies compete with each other on woke virtue signaling, and Robin DiAngelo adds another million to her bank account, people are being beaten and murdered in the streets of American cities. While Jeff Bezos and other woke elites go off to space, woke translates into tribal hatred and violence down here on earth.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1176742657441154296\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-whiteness-of-woke.html#comment-form","title":"10 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1176742657441154296"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1176742657441154296"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/the-whiteness-of-woke.html","title":"The Whiteness of Woke"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-hTGcWyhPBJo\/YMpX-nkdsoI\/AAAAAAAATTw\/e7o1xuXES7YHJMdaiaVJRbh_IXtXeoYDgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/cnn%2Bhands%2Bup.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"10"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3780872597941527757"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-01T16:23:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-01T16:23:33.087-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Marxist Lives Matter"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The Left organizes around oppression. Oppression is a negative and the movement is defined around defining negative phenomena and organizing against them. It’s an outrage machine that depends on finding enough of those negatives to justify its own rise to political power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut as it gains power, the amount of oppression ought to decrease. And accordingly the Left’s power also ought to decrease in proportion since it has no positive vision only a negative one. Instead, paradoxically, the more power the Left gains, the worse the oppression becomes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aWyLz7unLHM\/YLaXPEToePI\/AAAAAAAATRw\/fMhM7IYuX4ED2PMB25CnUk-l52XXUBWrQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s747\/blm%2Bsports%2Bframe.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"520\" data-original-width=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aWyLz7unLHM\/YLaXPEToePI\/AAAAAAAATRw\/fMhM7IYuX4ED2PMB25CnUk-l52XXUBWrQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/blm%2Bsports%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENot only does the general state of things get worse, but every specific area where it claims to be making progress somehow becomes much worse than it was before. After Obama took office, race relations took a dive as the country somehow became more racist during a black president. Last year, every Democrat city was denounced as an outpost of systemic racism where black people were being hunted by the police for sport. That’s when women aren’t being hunted down on some of the most progressive and diverse college campuses and industries in the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nation’s woke corporations are oppressing workers and destroying the planet. The woke governments are imposing systemic racism in between critical race theory struggle sessions. American foreign policy, under one of the most leftist administrations in history, is an imperialist war machine when it isn’t flying BLM flags and advertising for transgender Antifa recruits.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEverything is somehow worse than ever. Maybe the Left ought to give up and go home because it’s just making everything worse. But it must get worse because failure is the only option.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn an un-free society, oppression is easy to organize against. You don’t need books to understand oppression in China and North Korea. Black people and white people didn’t need to have the wrongs of slavery or segregation explained to them at corporate diversity sessions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReal oppression is tangible. No one needs 40 hours of programming to explain how gulags or gas chambers oppress people. If you need 40 hours of lectures and a 400 page book to explain oppression, you’re not oppressed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA theory of intangible oppression is exactly the thing that a system of actual oppression needs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Union and Nazi Germany terrorized their own populaces, killed millions of people, and invaded other countries based on conspiracy theories about intangible oppression. Both socialist terror states justified massive military build ups by falsely claiming that they were about to be invaded when they were the ones doing any preemptive invading. They backed up these conspiracy theories with purges and show trials. Stalin’s Great Terror purged rivals while forcing them to confess to doing the bidding of every foreign country around. Hitler’s Holocaust was based around a massive Jewish conspiracy with other countries around the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe best evidence of the growing political power of the American Left and the irrelevance of its political theories is the nationwide deployment of an anti-racism which claims that racism is invisible and yet is everywhere. Its books and curriculums lay out a conspiratorial theory of intangible racism that can only be approached through the lived experience of oppressed people, but which cannot be described meaningfully in any factual and objective fashion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReal oppression, like slave chains, is tangible. Critical race theory depends on sensitizing everyone to claims of oppression that are either blatantly false, e.g. the police committing genocide against black people, or can’t be objectively defined, e.g. systemic racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe more critical race theorists talk about ‘whiteness’, the less they’re able to define it except in the ways that religious people define a deity or the devil: as an intangible force pervading everything, only manifest to those who understand the hidden meanings of everyday events.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReligion, unlike critical race theory, is a private matter. And few religions are as racist as CRT which insists on the unalterable evil of white people and the helpless victimhood of minorities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, like the USSR’s insistence that the old Bolsheviks were really working for the Brits, or the new Democrat insistence that all the Republicans work for Russia, state conspiracy theories shouldn’t be taken literally, but they should be taken seriously.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat does oppression look like in a country where the Democrats control the White House, the Senate, and the House, and every major corporation advocates for their agendas? What does it sound like when the educational system and the media are controlled by the Left, censoring and suppressing dissenting points of view? Oppression can no longer be about fighting power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot when the power is in the hands of the oppressers who claim to be oppressed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has reached the tipping point where all the power is in the hands of the Left, but we haven’t comprehensively lost our freedoms yet. In an un-free society, the oppressed are the people with no rights. But in a free society, the oppressed are most often the oppressors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOppression in an un-free society is characterized by a lack of rights, but in a free society, it’s defined by a lack of power. And power in a free society is a means of depriving others of rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory, for all its posturing about the police, is concerned with power, not rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESystemic racism is not a construct of rights, but of power. It’s not challenged with the equalization of rights, but with the assumption of power. The whole premise of lived experience is that objective metrics of civil rights can’t appease the emotional suffering of the oppressed. The nature of their oppression is so incomprehensible to anyone outside their lived experience that only those who claim to be oppressed can remedy their oppression by taking power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t civil rights: it’s an uncivil cultural coup.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe idea that only a select elite should be allowed to wield power because only they understand what must be done has been the central premise of every totalitarian theory and system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a free society, power is a tangible means shared through open elections for recognized goals, while in an un-free society, power is a mystical means employed by an elite toward a redemptive end. America is becoming an un-free society in which power is not the means by which taxpayers and citizens define how their money and their government is used to achieve their goals, but a redemptive force for escaping global environmental apocalypses and ushering in a progressive new utopia whose moral arc bends toward the right side of history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis utopia, like all utopias, is short on details. It’s defined not by what it has, but by what it doesn’t. Leftism exists in a negative space and its brave new worlds are inversions of that negativity, offering not a positive vision, but the erasure of human individuality and free will. The people in these fictional utopias are happy not because of what they have, but what they don’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy.” Unlike the Left’s actual utopias, everyone is happy in the fictional utopias to have lost their free agency. As in the conclusion of George Orwell’s 1984, joy in the dystopian utopia comes from a cultish surrender of the self to the system and the recognition that it is our flawed human natures that keep us from living in a socialist utopia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince few people are enthused about losing the freedom to live their own lives, totalitarian leftist systems invert the duality of oppressors and oppressed. They redefine their oppression as liberation, the oppressors as the oppressed, and the oppressed as the oppressors. The best way to convince people to give up their freedom is to convince them that they’re oppressors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory racializes the familiar totalitarian paradigm behind the Soviet Union. But it’s no more about race than Communist regimes were about the working class. The markers are just temporary counters opportunistically established based on local circumstances. If the revolutionary candidate of Hope and Change hadn’t been half-black, and if the George Floyd video hadn’t gone viral, we would be living through a different cultural revolution right now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut we would still be living through a cultural revolution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left is on the verge of taking power and we are about to lose our rights. Our rights are becoming intangible just as their power is becoming tangible. And so they have come up with a theory of intangible oppression to explain why our rights should give way to their power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tyranny is in the theory.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3780872597941527757\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/marxist-lives-matter.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3780872597941527757"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3780872597941527757"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/marxist-lives-matter.html","title":"Marxist Lives Matter"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-aWyLz7unLHM\/YLaXPEToePI\/AAAAAAAATRw\/fMhM7IYuX4ED2PMB25CnUk-l52XXUBWrQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/blm%2Bsports%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3572398156880265279"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-25T04:15:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-25T04:15:00.382-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"environmentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Earth Day is Killing Us"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Grouches complain that a lot of fake holidays are created by companies, but Earth Day is actually a fake holiday created by a sharp Madison Avenue ad agency, and the name comes to us from the same guy who coined, “Timex: It takes a licking and keeps on ticking\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Earth takes a licking much better than Timex watches, but it’s the job of ad agencies to convince us that consumer products are permanent, while the world is ephemeral.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-W19jmXDNm5w\/YIMBhOhr6zI\/AAAAAAAATB4\/xPrclwYxGJsEG5n-0Ugcjgv7TiAU_k2hACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1608\/kerry_whitehousegov.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"905\" data-original-width=\"1608\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-W19jmXDNm5w\/YIMBhOhr6zI\/AAAAAAAATB4\/xPrclwYxGJsEG5n-0Ugcjgv7TiAU_k2hACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/kerry_whitehousegov.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EMadison Avenue supplied the name, but Senator Gaylord Nelson, the eugenicist Democrat, had come up with the idea for the event. Gaylord’s Earth Day kickoff hit a bump when Indians showed up and threw garbage on the stage to protest his environmental plan to seize their land for a national park. But the media excised this inconvenient truth from Earth Day history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReal inconvenient truths don’t appear in Al Gore’s documentaries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was 1970. Nixon’s Vietnamization was underway and the Left, sensing that its antiwar protests had a limited future, was looking to build a new movement. The idea came from Gaylord, the name came from Madison Avenue, but the culture war needed young radicals to organize, show up, protest, and tell their parents that they wanted Democrats running America forever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s where Ira Einhorn, a young radical, who co-founded Earth Day and acted as the master of ceremonies at its first rally, came in. Einhorn had started out as an anti-war activist, but like Gaylord and other Democrats, he could see that the anti-war publicity machine was going away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEveryone from politicians to ad agencies to aspiring gurus like Einhorn was looking for the next big cultural phenomenon that would speak to the narcissism of the luckiest generation in history. Einhorn realized that civil rights and anti-war rallies were getting old. The future was a new environmentalism that would make the old environmentalist eugenics look cool and hip.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEinhorn ended up committing totally by killing his girlfriend and composting her body. Then he fled to Europe where the same lefty activist network went on protecting him from prison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHappy Earth Day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarth Day didn’t do anything for the environment except make a huge mess. Parade floats filled with garbage were used to warn about pollution. Students chalked messages on the street. Everyone drove out in cars for Earth Day to warn about the dangers of driving cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGaylord’s Earth Day speech was revealing of what environmentalism was and wasn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Environment is all of America and its problems. It is rats in the ghetto. It is a hungry child in a land of affluence. It is housing that is not worthy of the name; neighborhoods not fit to inhabit. Environment is a problem perpetuated by the expenditure of billions a year on the Vietnam War,\" Gaylord rambled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnvironmentalism was everything and nothing. It was every Democrat agenda rolled into one. It was the welfare state and the anti-war movement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the Democrats were going to run on it, then it was environmentalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if they weren’t, then it wasn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt no time in his speech did Gaylord address any actual environmental problem. Instead he focused on urban blight, caused by his own party, and shamed Americans for their prosperity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Our goal is a new American ethic that sets new standards for progress, emphasizing human dignity and well being rather than an endless parade of technology that produces more gadgets, more waste, more pollution,” Gaylord insisted, invoking the faux spirituality already in vogue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFinally he declared an \"environmental war\" to save America's cities that would only take \"$20 to $25 billion more a year in federal money than we are spending or asking for now.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoe Biden, who first ran for office that year, wants to spend $174 billion on just electric cars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe endless war on the environment is starting to cost more than any actual war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBillions have been spent with little to show for it except more cash in the pockets of environmentalist Democrats like Al Gore who built a $300 million fortune with his advocacy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe planet is no better and no worse off since 1970. The same isn’t true of America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1970, 62% of aggregate income went to the middle class. Today it's only 29%. The winners of the environmental economic war on Americans were the upper crust Earth Day crowd.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are more gadgets than ever, but fewer Americans can afford them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnvironmentalist policies helped push jobs out to China while leaving American cities and towns barren. There are more rats in the ghettos and housing not worthy of its name than ever before.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe current big objective of the environmentalist movement and the Biden administration is to crush coal while taking another huge bite out of the remnants of the American middle class.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Secretary Kerry trying to equate the job of an electrician in a coal mine who makes $110,000 to a solar tech, who might make $35,000 to $40,000, is not a good analogy for our state,\" Senator Shelley Moore Capito argued.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s a great analogy if you’re trying to turn more of the middle class into the lower class.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJimmy Carter made Denis Hayes, a key organizer of Earth Day, the director of the Federal Solar Energy Research Institute. Hayes had an undergraduate degree in history from Stanford. Despite never having a degree in anything science related, he became a visiting professor at Stanford's School of Engineering and the CEO of Earth Day. He remains a board member of Earth Day alongside such notables as the President of Finland, the head of the Wells Fargo Foundation, and a woman whose bio lists her as an “internationally renowned chef.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Earth Day store offers \"premium organic\" t-shirts urging \"Make Every Day Earth Day\" for $28 bucks \"Far out, man! This classic tie-dye T-shirt is bringing the 60’s back in style,\" the ad copy declares. The details mention that the actual fabric is imported. You can guess from where.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same goes for the rest of the expensive junk in the Earth Day store.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1970, there were 18 million manufacturing jobs in the United States. Today there are 12 million and that’s after a period of record growth under President Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina has built a manufacturing empire. It happily celebrates Earth Day because every advent of the fake Madison Avenue headline means more American jobs and dollars headed its way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarth Day, according to Senator Gaylord Nelson, was supposed to address poverty in America. Instead Earth Day has been the biggest machine for creating poverty, hunger, and misery in America. Environmentalism didn’t fight poverty, it spread it, trading American jobs and social mobility for the smugness of upper class students seeking a new political fight after Vietnam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs much as the anti-war movement hurt America, the environmental movement did worse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlmost as many Americans kill themselves in one year as died in the entire Vietnam War. The suicide rate shot up 35% in the last twenty years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELosing America was much worse than losing Vietnam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery Earth Day comes with the usual recitation of political dogma with which children are indoctrinated before they can even read. On one side are piles of trash and on the other side are whales and polar bears happily dancing arm-in-fluke. The truth is that on one side there are Ivy League colleges and environmentalist think tanks while on the other side there is the Rust Belt, there are millions of Americans without jobs and without hope, and millions more waiting to see if the Biden administration will take away their jobs, their homes, and their futures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe wages of Earth Day are ‘Love Canals’ all over America with dying towns, workers permanently out of work, dying of meth, committing suicide in unprecedented numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarth Day is America’s Chernobyl, an environmentalist catastrophe that is killing us. And Earth Day has destroyed more of America than any environmental catastrophe ever could.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s time to end the great hoax from Madison Avenue, from a brutal killer and a political hack, before it destroys what’s left of America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKill Earth Day before it kills America.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3572398156880265279\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/earth-day-is-killing-us.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3572398156880265279"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3572398156880265279"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/earth-day-is-killing-us.html","title":"Earth Day is Killing Us"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-W19jmXDNm5w\/YIMBhOhr6zI\/AAAAAAAATB4\/xPrclwYxGJsEG5n-0Ugcjgv7TiAU_k2hACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/kerry_whitehousegov.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-7165002821352017890"},"published":{"$t":"2021-03-16T14:28:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-03-16T14:28:03.222-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anti-Semitism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Communism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How a Foundation Obsessed With Communism is Leading the War on Israel"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In 2013, the Puffin Foundation issued a grant for what was described as a \"Soviet Yiddish Songbook\". The CD, later issued as “City of the Future: Yiddish Songs from the Former Soviet Union”, is accurate only in that its songs, like Red Army and The Song of the Collective Farmer, are indeed in Yiddish. Otherwise they’re propaganda for a brutal antisemitic regime that killed countless Jews, including one of the men who wrote the song lyrics, and Yiddish culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_0_5KCljEiU\/YE-oGqKNJKI\/AAAAAAAAS7o\/117TjzNfeXYIPkynUeZzS7cI-M9kFS5rQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s662\/image_2021-03-15_113153.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"453\" data-original-width=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_0_5KCljEiU\/YE-oGqKNJKI\/AAAAAAAAS7o\/117TjzNfeXYIPkynUeZzS7cI-M9kFS5rQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-03-15_113153.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe CD was working off an album titled For Youth, meant to be used to indoctrinate Jewish students who had been forced to attend the Soviet Union’s Yiddish schools. The Yevsektsia or the Communist Party’s Jewish Section tasked with destroying Jewish life in the USSR had worked to ban Hebrew, Zionism, and Judaism, while treating Yiddish as a legitimate language.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Communist Party eventually purged its Jewish collaborators and a secret Hebrew revival began to take off among Jewish youth in the USSR. Meanwhile, leftists in America tried to keep Soviet Yiddishism alive long after the Russian Jews it was meant to indoctrinate had rejected it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Puffin Foundation has a great deal of fondness for the USSR. It sponsored a screening of American Reds which is described as, “The Communist Party USA, despite its grievous faults and failings, and its willful blindness to the tyranny of the Soviet Union, still had a vision of a better world.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's Red Father, the \"story of a Communist lawyer, from fighting for civil rights in the U.S. and against fascism in Spain\", At Home in Utopia, which highlights co-ops \"where many of the residents were Communists or sympathetic to the communist movement\", and Pete Seeger’s Legacy which, it emphasizes, includes \"a sizable segment on Seeger’s communism\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA theatrical production in Baltimore states, “Our great achievement in the production was discovering how we could make a show about capital “C” Communism and still have it feel like something Michael Bay or Disney might create.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou don’t have to be Roy Cohn to spot the agenda here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was a show at the Museum of the City of New York, a frequent Puffin venue, celebrating the Communists of the Lincoln Brigade which featured a can belonging to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg better known as the Atom Bomb traitors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Times noted that, \"Perry Rosenstein, the president of the Puffin Foundation, the main sponsor of the exhibition, writes of these fighters: 'They represented the best of our country and the best of our conscience.'\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Did they?\" The New York Times' art critic asked skeptically. You know you’ve gone too far when it's the Times that has to slam on the brakes by quoting Ronald Radosh and George Orwell.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUntil recently, the Puffin Foundation, and its affinity for all things red, had, unlike its namesake bird, flown under the radar of most people. But then the Puffin Foundation decided to revive a Communist rag that had been boycotted for \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cms.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/01\/peter-beinart-joins-communist-paper-praised-rape-daniel-greenfield\"\u003Epraising the rape and murder of Jews\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJewish Currents, a spinoff of the old Communist Party's Yiddish paper, the Morgen Freiheit, had been all but abandoned by the old lefties, until the Puffin Foundation decided to revive it. And most of the attention was garnered by Peter Beinart’s name splashed all over its hateful pages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile most of the coverage has focused on Beinart’s use of Jewish Currents to continue his old war against Israel, less attention has been paid to the paper’s old Communist roots. Or its support for the murder of Jews. When the old Freiheit had endorsed the Hebron Massacre of Jewish men, women, and children, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cms.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/01\/peter-beinart-joins-communist-paper-praised-rape-daniel-greenfield\"\u003Ewith the headline\u003C\/a\u003E, “The Arab Uprising is Spreading - Zionist Fascists Have Provoked the Arab Uprising”, Jewish communities burned copies of the paper.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWriters for the Communist rag were assaulted on the streets. Newspaper vendors, back then often Jewish, refused to sell the paper. Advertisers were forced to boycott it. When the Freiheit endorsed the Hitler-Stalin Pact, its remaining writers \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/cms.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/01\/peter-beinart-joins-communist-paper-praised-rape-daniel-greenfield\"\u003Ewere taunted\u003C\/a\u003E as “Communazis” and greeted with chants of, “Heil Hitler”. That should have been enough for any decent person.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the Puffin Foundation decided to fund a reboot of the antisemitic Communist rag under a non-profit, the Association for the Promotion of Jewish Secularism. Jacob Plitman, a former deputy director of the anti-Israel campus hate group J Street U, headed the reboot. Beinart, a longtime anti-Israel activist, became its marquee name, and Bernie Sanders, an old friend of all things red and antisemitic, contributed an editorial about antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJewish Currents promotes BDS, attacks the Jewish State, and promises to expose Jewish power. Pieces at the hate paper take up the old Freitheit banner by accusing Jews of fascism and Nazism. Meanwhile the media blandly treats Jewish Current as just another paper.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven while the Puffin Foundation funds the glamorization of Communism, its money comes not only from capitalism, but from one of the few outposts of the survivors of Communism. Perry Rosenstein had sold Brighton-Best Socket Screw Manufacturing to a Taiwanese consortium.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERosenstein died last year of the coronavirus, but not before funneling money from the Taiwanese sale into Puffin. The millionaire leftist was never able to fulfill his dream of joining the Lincoln Brigade, but did fund the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives which spins off Common Core lesson plans about the Communist brigade intended for schools. Born to Bundist parents, he was a red diaper baby who spent his money supporting the radical extremists he loved.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe orbituatries called him a philanthropist or a social activist continuing the long tradition of ignoring what was right in their faces. Rosenstein and the Puffin Foundation easily bridged the gap between radicalism, leftism and liberalism. Rosenstein and Puffin were major backers of The Nation and In These Times, but they also handed out \"creative citizenship\" awards to William Barber, Bill McKibben, Ben Jealous, Tony Kushner, Colin Kaepernick, and Parkland activists. Even while the media inveighs against extremism, Beinart and Jewish Currents continue to appear in favorable media mentions without being called what they really are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a sea of leftist foundations, the Puffin Foundation stands out for its remarkable obsession with maintaining and preserving the products of bygone Communist propaganda, art posters, theatrical productions, and propaganda broadsheets. It does so often with little to no distance from its poisonously murderous subject matter without ever being held accountable for it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJewish Currents was recreated to be an incubator for the murderous leftist hatred of Jewish life, religious community, and nationhood that killed countless Jews under Soviet Communism. A leading writer at Currents, and the secretary of its parent foundation, the Association for Promotion of Jewish Secularism, is\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/individual\/Naomi_Dann\"\u003E Naomi Dann\u003C\/a\u003E, a founder of one of the most antisemitic chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine in the country, and a media program manager at Jewish Voice for Peace, which sponsored talks by a bigot who claimed \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/stanford-professor-recommends-anti-semitic-website-to-readers-then-kind-of-takes-it-back\"\u003EJews drink blood\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s exactly what anyone ought to expect from a hate sheet whose origins were in a Communist Party rag that was burned in the streets for celebrating the murder of Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the Puffin Foundation, glutted with Taiwanese cash from the sale of Rosenstein’s business, will continue. And the leftists who call themselves progressives or even liberals will pretend not to notice its awkward interest in Communism while applauding it for funding “progressive” ideas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEditor David Klion, formerly of Al Jazeera America, funded by a state sponsor of Hamas, which was sued over its antisemitism, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/elderofziyon.blogspot.com\/2021\/03\/leftist-antisemitism-illustrated-jewish.html\"\u003Erecently tweeted\u003C\/a\u003E, \"At @JewishCurrents, we are launching a dedicated investigative reporting fund to do hold (sic) Jewish institutional power to account.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe hit pieces on Jews will be funded by the Puffin Foundation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe question is when will the institutional power of the Puffin Foundation be held to account?\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003ED\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/7165002821352017890\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/how-foundation-obsessed-with-communism.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7165002821352017890"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/7165002821352017890"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/how-foundation-obsessed-with-communism.html","title":"How a Foundation Obsessed With Communism is Leading the War on Israel"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_0_5KCljEiU\/YE-oGqKNJKI\/AAAAAAAAS7o\/117TjzNfeXYIPkynUeZzS7cI-M9kFS5rQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-03-15_113153.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6610571944422626242"},"published":{"$t":"2021-03-03T14:01:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-03-03T14:01:07.095-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Corporate America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"radicals"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Coke Goes Woke and Broke"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“Get woke, go broke”, is a conservative meme about the cost of political correctness that has it the wrong way around. Brands don’t go broke because they get woke, they go woke because they’re going broke, and don’t know how to stop the slow but steady collapse of their business.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bGj1FcqKOhA\/YD8LoTT0oGI\/AAAAAAAAS54\/gC2wuUXFPygcB4JE7xLNM895Huhk5UWAACNcBGAsYHQ\/s751\/image_2021-03-02_200800.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"491\" data-original-width=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bGj1FcqKOhA\/YD8LoTT0oGI\/AAAAAAAAS54\/gC2wuUXFPygcB4JE7xLNM895Huhk5UWAACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-03-02_200800.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe big brands that go woke infuriate conservatives because, like Coke, Gillette, or Nike, they have a storied name that seems entwined with America and the success of capitalism. But it’s those old, familiar brands that go woke because their products and business models are dated. Virtue signaling is their way of adapting to a changing market without really innovating. Behind every big woke brand is a company slowly going broke and with no clue what to do about it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe wokeness vocabulary joins the thesaurus of corporate buzzwords used by executives trying to hide from their investors that they don’t know what they’re doing. Making headlines for their wokeness changes the conversation from their business model to their politics. Touting a brand as socially responsible evades questions about its financial viability.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETake Coke, please.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoca-Cola’s global sales fell 28% in the second quarter of 2020 from $10 billion to $7.15 billion. The corporate giant blamed the pandemic which had shuttered movie theaters and bars, and began cutting its small brands while concentrating on its big signature brands. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Coke was struggling even long before the pandemic. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite all the international marketing, North America is still the biggest soda market. And the average American is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thecounter.org\/sugary-drink-consumption-soda-decline-kids\/\"\u003Edown to drinking \u003C\/a\u003E40 gallons of soda from 50 gallons two decades ago. The shift was driven by the same demographic that tends to go woke, young white urban lefties, who became more likely to drink bottled water. Coke chased them by going into bottled water and vitamin drinks, but also by shifting away from a family brand once associated with Santa.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESanta and the polar bears reflected a Coke that was marketed to children. But fewer parents are comfortable with their children living off soda. That’s why one survey \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thecounter.org\/sugary-drink-consumption-soda-decline-kids\/\"\u003Efound that\u003C\/a\u003E the number of children drinking over 3 cans of soda a day fell from 10% to 3.3%. The drop in soda consumption, once again, was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/jandonline.org\/article\/S2212-2672(20)30902-3\/fulltext\"\u003Eheaviest among \u003C\/a\u003Eyounger and wealthier urban white lefties. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe economic consequences of young white wealthy lefties dropping soda wasn’t just a sales issue. Wokes are a politically narcissistic demographic that legislates its tastes into law, pursuing the legalization of drugs, and bans on soda. Both drug legalization and soda bans were, as usual, done in the name of oppressed minorities, but had little impact on them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELegal drugs are too expensive for minorities and the infamous soda taxes don’t work. But the soda industry remembers what happened to tobacco and other lifestyle habits that fell afoul of the cultural values of the new woke ruling class. That’s another reason why it went ‘woke’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBanning soda from schools and taxing it in stores precedes the class action lawsuits and national legislative activities that would effectively eliminate sodas from the marketplace.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoke isn’t just virtue signaling to prop up sales in a declining market: it’s also afraid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it should be. Bloomberg isn’t just fighting coal and guns, he’s also spending a fortune pushing his soda ban in cities and states around the country. The soda industry has ramped up spending to defend itself against everything from soda taxes to its links to slave labor. But it understands that the real threat is cultural as the new woke ruling class destroys the habits of the old America that it associates with conservative, working class, and flyover country. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why cigarettes are a deadly menace, but pot is a civil rights crusade. The health issues are a pretext for a cultural revolution. And Coke went woke to convince the wealthy young urban lefties to incorporate its signature products into their lives by joining the cultural revolution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left bet that if it could radicalize the children of the wealthy that Corporate America would bend the knee. And that’s exactly what happened. The radicals used their leverage over academia and the entertainment industry to create radical generations. But that radicalism was heavily concentrated among the Ivy League and the children of the elites who would become the corporate leaders and also be the consumers with the most disposable income.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEconomics, like politics, proved to be downstream of the culture. Capturing the ecosystem at its base allowed the Left to take over the economy and turn some of the country’s biggest brands into megaphones for its propaganda. But these are corporate brands that have all the qualities of the ossified elites that have always been an easy target for the revolutions of the radicals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoke, like the average big woke brand, has a majority share of a declining market. It has limited growth potential within that market. Coca Cola’s fortunes are closely tied to movie theaters, which were in a catastrophic state of decline even before the pandemic, and to McDonald’s. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMcDonald’s, like a lot of traditional fast food places, is experiencing \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/larrylight\/2020\/02\/10\/mcdonalds-declining-customer-traffic-is-a-death-march-to-the-future\/?sh=639c96121c09\"\u003Eits own slow decline\u003C\/a\u003E. The clown joint, like Coke, tried to reinvent its brand as being about healthy food and leftist politics. Just like Coke, going ‘woke’ hasn’t stopped its decline, or the threat of the cultural Left regulating it out of business to protect minorities from the pernicious threat of its Happy Meals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen McDonald's brought in its new British CEO Steve Easterbrook, he promised to make it over as a \"modern progressive burger company\". The company hired Robert Gibbs, Obama's press secretary, to head communications. McDonald's flipped its arches upside down to celebrate International Women’s Day. And then Easterbrook was forced out for allegedly having affairs with three female employees. Meanwhile the decline in foot traffic is still going on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Coca Cola Company meanwhile has a British CEO who pledged allegiance at Davos to a \"new social contract\" and an \"economy that works for everyone\". He took over from the company's previous Turkish CEO, and the Turkish CEO’s South African predecessor. The head of Coca Cola in North America is a Honduran who came out of its Latin American division.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe other thing about these iconic American brands is that they don't have American leaders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoke won’t shut up about social justice and the evils of whiteness because that’s a better conversation than its failed portfolio of new brands, dumping its bottling operations, and its desperate efforts to refocus by launching a thousand different varieties of Coke aimed at the one lefty demographic that holds its future in the palms of its soft white manicured hands. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOtherwise its whole massive distribution network will be used for little more than moving orange juice, vitamin drinks, and milk around as soda and fast food go the way of cigarettes. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoke is going woke because its future is broke. That’s true of most of the big woke brands. And the closer Coke gets to the cliff, the more hysterical its performative wokeness will become.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E‘Wokening’ is a social disease of stale companies with stale brands whose products are overpriced and have fallen out of touch with the needs of many consumers. And the country’s consumer marketplace is dominated by these collapsing giants whose leaders are just marking time and cashing big checks while trying to co-opt the revolution threatening to destroy them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEuropean monarchs tried to co-opt leftist revolutions because they no longer had confidence in their own roles and had no idea what to do next. Coca Cola and the woke corporate giants share the same decadent sense of decline and their urban elites are selling out their rural base to appeal to the young radical generation to which their children and their social circle belong.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWokeness is the consequence of a moral and economic brokenness among the nation’s elites. The Left conquered the corrupt infrastructure of a decaying political and economic system. Now it’s using that infrastructure to brainwash and suppress the country’s middle and working classes by lecturing them on their racism, and redefining them as domestic terrorists. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not just Coke that went woke and broke: it’s the entire system that’s going broke.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003ED\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6610571944422626242\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/coke-goes-woke-and-broke.html#comment-form","title":"11 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6610571944422626242"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6610571944422626242"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/03\/coke-goes-woke-and-broke.html","title":"Coke Goes Woke and Broke"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bGj1FcqKOhA\/YD8LoTT0oGI\/AAAAAAAAS54\/gC2wuUXFPygcB4JE7xLNM895Huhk5UWAACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-03-02_200800.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"11"}}]}});