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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":"15"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-714372039229578819"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-05T19:13:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-05T19:13:45.868-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"big government"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How Civil Rights Made America a Critical Race Theocracy"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"When Obama wanted to defend his ties to Jeremiah Wright, he began his speech by denouncing America's \"original sin of slavery\". The phrase is widely and unthinkingly used. And its consequences are the 1619 Project and critical race theory. If slavery is America’s original sin, then the purpose of America and her people becomes striving to atone for that primal sin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESuburban Democrat housewives reading Robin DiAngelo and corporate struggle sessions forcing members to affiliate by race are just striving to atone for America’s “original sin”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if they resemble a cult, it’s because civil rights moved from the legal to the spiritual.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EEIdibpZzdM\/YOOSEm-hTPI\/AAAAAAAATVc\/YkSKSe8GuQo4lC0qwsaspDj30HEbz_z3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s597\/image_2021-07-05_161319.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"440\" data-original-width=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EEIdibpZzdM\/YOOSEm-hTPI\/AAAAAAAATVc\/YkSKSe8GuQo4lC0qwsaspDj30HEbz_z3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-07-05_161319.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EDismantling the legal infrastructure of segregation took on religious and psychological overtones. The legitimacy of ending school segregation was tainted by psychosocial nonsense like the ‘Doll Study’ which found that children preferred white dolls to black dolls. Even then the original sin of civil rights was that its more academic proponents could not properly define rights, and sought affirmative remedies that transformed how we thought rather than what we did.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat we do can be in the legitimate purview of government, what we think is not. And yet over the years civil rights became obsessed with the origins of discrimination in the human mind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECountless tests were devised, many absurd, (“What color is a gorilla’s skin underneath the fur?” one particularly awkward racist test for racism asked) that were meant to measure our thoughts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe less racist our society became in function, the more civil rights fixated on a gestalt of psychosocial racism which explained racial disparities by blaming hidden thoughts leading to assumptions that perpetrated systemic racism even as its white perpetrators remained unaware.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe truly dangerous part of this conclusion was that the focus of discrimination had moved from actions to thoughts. Critical race theory is being imposed on everyone from schoolchildren to soldiers because civil rights violations had been redefined from the physical to the mental. Civil rights was no longer fighting separate drinking fountains, but unconscious and implicit biases.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe National Guard wasn’t being sent to open up schools, but to open up the human mind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the government tells you what to do, it risks becoming a tyranny, but when it starts telling you what to think, it becomes a theocracy. Critical race theory, like most of America’s experiments in secular theocracy, came out of academia whose experts have failed miserably when it comes to tangible policy results, but excel at telling people what to think.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe original sin of academia is constructing grand theories. The social sciences found the root causes for its grand theories in the interface between society and psychology. Their solutions begin with having the government change how people live and then when that doesn’t work, changing how they think.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe sociologists who wrecked the black industrial communities of the north with welfare refused to accept responsibility for the disaster they helped cause and instead began blaming racial disparities on the hidden workings of society and the human mind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile academic civil rights was psychoanalyzing America, the civil rights movement had soured from Martin Luther King Jr’s Christian emphasis on national redemption across racial lines to the Islamic tribalism of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam in whose mythology black people were chosen and white people were a tainted race created through eugenic breeding. America was an evil empire doomed to be destroyed by the arrival of UFOs protecting the master race.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe next generation of activist clergy was outwardly Christian, but had come either directly, like Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s mentor, or indirectly like James Hal Cone, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2020\/11\/georgia-dem-senate-candidates-mentor-there-will-be-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EWarnock’s mentor\u003C\/a\u003E, through the racist ideology of the Nation of Islam. When Jeremiah Wright shrieked, \"God Damn America! That’s in the Bible,\" he meant it literally with America as Babylon and Rome. To the Black Hebrew Israelites, whose movement has been linked to a number of recent terrorist attacks, America is Edom. The common theme is that America is a mythic evil to be destroyed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe set of ideas that people associate with critical race theory fuses the two corrupt successors of the civil rights movement, academic racial psychoanalysis and racial nationalism, through the writings of second generation black nationalists who had come through academia, like Ibram X. Kendi, and journalism, like Ta-Nehisi Coates and the 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe modern proponents of critical race theory fuse academic beliefs in subconscious systemic racism and black nationalist convictions that America and white people are inherently evil.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s where critical race theory becomes critical race theocracy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis brand of ‘wokeness’ is legitimately theological because its origins lie as much in black religious identitarian movements as in the academic jargon in which it cloaks its racism. The synthesis of the two very different literary genres results in strange poetry, personal confessionals wrapped in bad sociology and worse history, mythic appeals and nonsense jargon, that runs through everything from the 1619 Project to ‘Between the World and Me’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory’s defenders insist that it’s an academic movement, that its proponents are experts, and that it just wants to discuss its ideas, but it operates like a theocracy, silencing and suppressing opponents, critics, and even insufficiently radical supporters. Its entire rationale is built on denying that anyone can legitimately disagree with it or that debate is even possible. A movement that dismisses reason and objectivity as forms of oppressive whiteness has no interest in dialogue, only in terrorizing its way to power as racial nationalists seek to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Nazis decreed theories and creative works off limits because they believed that ideas could not be separated from the race of their creators. Critical race activists agree that theories and works carry the race of their creators in their intellectual DNA. The Nazis banned some works over ‘Jewishness’ while critical race theory activists seek to ban them over their ‘whiteness’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most brutal theocracies are those which are the most pessimistic about human nature. The Nazis believed that people were animals who could never transcend their biology, Islamists believe that people must be ruthlessly conquered and ruled to bring peace, and leftists believe that power relations doom humanity to cycles of exploitation without an enlightened tyranny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory is infused with the academic pessimism of the Left, the identitarian racial pessimism of black nationalists, and the spiritual pessimism of black nationalist theology. It exists in a perpetual state of struggle and its exceptionalism is rooted in its victimhood. It needs white people as an ultimate enemy whose existence gives it its negative meaning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhiteness abstracts white people as a perpetual enemy for a racial and a spiritual struggle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s fall into the grip of this racist theocracy obsessed with a struggle against whiteness, driven by racial paranoia and moral despair, is a direct legacy of the intellectual and moral failings of the aftermath of the civil rights era. These failings were as much white as they were black. While the black family disintegrated in the grip of the welfare state, white elites lost their religion and built an alternative culture whose meaning came from politics and pop culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWokeness is just the horrid synthesis of white secularism and black nationalism, of a society where music is worship, politics is religion, self-medicating is meditation, and activism is faith. The endless narcissistic refractions only produced a victimhood culture whose great crusade is enforcing conformity through the only means possible in a fragmented society that has lost its moral and intellectual underpinnings: online bullying and political terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKingian civil rights is inaccessible to a secular society with no concept of forgiveness or humility. It’s also inaccessible to people whose warped version of religion teaches them to hate others.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo paraphrase John Adams, \"Civil rights was made only for a moral and religious people, it is wholly inadequate for any other.\" Critical race theory is the inadequacy of a political society trying to come to grips with moral and religious questions, but with no other tools than power and the abstractions of a scientism that is suited to studying distant galaxies, but not people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Founding Fathers, now the enemies of critical race theory whose statues are being torn down, were humble enough to limit the ambit of government to the realm of government. And they made it clear that it was not their role to tell people what to think or to believe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica held together through conflicts that should have torn the country apart because we fought over the nature of government, not over the nature of man. The Confederate statues that have occasioned so much ire were the legacy of a country that was able to knit together its wounds as former enemies forgave and honored each other in the aftermath of its worst war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven when we were a moral and religious people, we did not go to war over what was in our souls. The leftist theocracy terrorizing millions of Americans is particularly unfit to judge souls, but the intellectual failures of academia and the moral failures of elite culture and leftist clergy has localized the failures of the black community in the psychosocial gestalt of systemic racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only way to save black people then becomes controlling how everyone thinks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiberal theology had made the civil rights movement into the epochal moral event of America as their ancestors had made the civil war the defining event that transformed the soul of the nation. This was exactly the brand of moral narcissism that Lincoln found so frustrating about the abolitionists long before their distant descendants put on black and began toppling his statues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECivil rights became a force that gave white liberals meaning. And that was another way of saying that civil rights became a religion. The devolution of civil rights legislation from inhibiting state discrimination based on race to enforcing state discrimination based on race was the trajectory of a theocracy based on the same sort of realpolitik that corrupts religions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Founding Fathers removed government restraint while the new theology of civil rights imposes government restraint, first over actions, then over ideas, and finally over thoughts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEquality has made way for equity and the human mind is the new lunch counter. The only way to achieve civil rights is, as in the Soviet Union, Communist China, Cuba, and every leftist tyranny, by removing civil rights from all and distributing them to the most deserving. The hypocritical corruption of the system demands not just tyranny, but theocracy, not just control over bodies, but over the minds whose owners might question this self-serving arrangement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat was once a supremely achievable goal, the end of government restraint, has made way for the usual unachievable utopian goal of an ideal society of the supremely enlightened.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe paradoxes of critical race theory come from its paradoxical intellectual origins through the social science academics who believe that everyone can be reeducated and the black nationalists who believe that white people are inescapably evil. They compromise by believing that white people are inescapably evil and must be constantly reeducated anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a compromise that allows white leftists to pursue meaning through civil rights and black nationalists to pursue racial identitarianism while leaving out non-misanthropes of all races.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnding this nightmare will require confronting the corruption of civil rights. Positive rights lead to tyranny and negative rights to freedom. When we define rights as things the government does for us, rather than things the government stops doing to us, we all end up as slaves. Civil rights cannot and should not be used to achieve equity by chasing racial disparities. That sociological and theological rabbit hole inevitably takes us into the realms of psychology and sin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose are places where the government does not belong and should not be allowed to venture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECritical race theory is less a theory than a theocracy, but both a theory and a theocracy can be torn down by attacking its fundamental assumptions. The failure to challenge theories leads to theocracies. If we want to defeat this theocracy, we need to start with its fundamental assumptions about white evil and black victimhood, and about an original sin that passes not only from fathers to sons, but from plantation owners to recent immigrants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica and Europe did not invent slavery, but they were the first to comprehensively destroy it. The presumption of guilt that traces every Third World blight or domestic inadequacy to some combination of colonialism, imperialism, and other nonsensical ‘ism’ is false and wrong. We do not need to constantly redeem ourselves for doing what no other civilization managed to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe already have.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is no room for a racial theocracy in America, not in our colleges, our institutions, or our military. Its existence is a declaration of war on not only our past, but our present and our future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDestroying a village won’t save it and destroying civil rights in the name of civil rights is a farce.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen civil rights isn’t regulating how you treat others, but how you think about them, and how you think about the theories that explain why they’re the victims, that’s an uncivil theocracy.\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\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\/714372039229578819\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/how-civil-rights-made-america-critical.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/714372039229578819"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/714372039229578819"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/how-civil-rights-made-america-critical.html","title":"How Civil Rights Made America a Critical Race Theocracy"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-EEIdibpZzdM\/YOOSEm-hTPI\/AAAAAAAATVc\/YkSKSe8GuQo4lC0qwsaspDj30HEbz_z3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-07-05_161319.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1661651304725260368"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-30T14:04:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-30T14:04:38.482-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"White Men are Terrible, Insists Author Abandoned by Her Black Father"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan face=\"Lato, \u0026quot;Helvetica Neue\u0026quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003EI\u003C\/span\u003Ejeoma Oluo spends a lot of time complaining about her single white mother who took care of her when her black father returned to Nigeria and never came back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dZeEVrZbC3E\/YNyyK5mJSKI\/AAAAAAAATVI\/h8d66qmZQBgm2LjCwVVbwhE0EdslnDDZwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s568\/image_2021-06-30_110426.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"476\" data-original-width=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dZeEVrZbC3E\/YNyyK5mJSKI\/AAAAAAAATVI\/h8d66qmZQBgm2LjCwVVbwhE0EdslnDDZwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-30_110426.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ELike Obama and Kamala, Ijeoma built a marketable identity by identifying with a father who abandoned her. But the author of such racist texts as\u003Ci\u003E So You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E and \u003Ci\u003EMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America\u003C\/i\u003E takes it even further by identifying as Nigerian-American. The Nigerian part is very hypothetical as she was born and raised in America, and her Nigerian father left when she was a year old and broke his promise to return.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite people are absolutely terrible, Ijeoma, who is half-white, insists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I have never been able to escape the fact that I am a black woman in a white supremacist country,\" Oluo declaimed at the beginning of \u003Ci\u003ESo You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E. The ugly racialist book never broke through the way that Robin DiAngelo or Ibram X. Kendi did, but it was a modest success and is regularly featured at corporate critical race indoctrination sessions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike other pop critical race theory texts, Oluo began the book by berating the leftist white women who were its target audience. It’s a topic she had practiced with her mother.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe woman who raised her and her brother, when they were abandoned by their black father, is a favorite topic for both siblings. But where Ahamefule Oluo, a jazz player and comedian, has done shows honoring his mother while emphasizing the subjective nature of race as he found that people in Nigeria saw him as white, Ijeoma Oluo has taken the opposite approach.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIjeoma’s mother is a popular topic and punching bag. In essays and books, she decries her mother’s ‘whiteness’. “Our mom never thought that our blackness would hold us back in life—she thought we could rule the world. But that optimism and starry-eyed love was, in fact, born from her whiteness,” she complains in \u003Ci\u003ESo You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen her mother asks, “How come you never identify as white, too? I mean, you’re half white”, she retorts that \"I did not feel that whiteness was something that any person with brown skin and kinky hair could inherit\". Lots of white people have kinky hair. Certainly plenty of half-white people, like Ijeoma, do. And Ijeoma is obsessed with white supremacy’s threat to her hair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETouching her hair, she rants, \"is a continuation of the lack of respect for the basic humanity and bodily autonomy of black Americans that is endemic throughout White Supremacy.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour average white supremacist probably doesn’t want to touch non-white people’s hair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut for all the attention that Ijeoma lavishes on complaining about her mother’s insufficiently woke views on race, she never mentions her father in \u003Ci\u003ESo You Want to Talk About Race\u003C\/i\u003E. At one point she rants, “If our mothers were raped by white men and we were born with lighter skin, we could almost be seen as attractive.” But her mother was white and married an African student.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIjeoma’s father was 53, but apparently told her mother he was 30 years old. After abandoning the mother of his children with a toddler and a one-month old baby, the African chief and doctoral student went back to his own country and promptly impregnated a woman there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHer brother describes \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/my-father-is-an-african-immigrant-and-my-mother-is-a-white-girl-from-kansas-and-i-am-not-the-president-of-the-united-states\/Content?oid=8932130\"\u003Ehim\u003C\/a\u003E as a “selfish and contemptible man”. Ijeoma instead wrote her second book, \u003Ci\u003EMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America\u003C\/i\u003E. Her first book is full of shots at her present mother while her second book attacks an imaginary white father.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMediocre was released by a Hachette imprint, alongside such critical race theory rants as Vicky Osterweil's \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/09\/rich-white-leftists-are-encouraging-black-people-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EIn Defense of Looting\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003E(The French publishing giant also suppressed Julie Burchill's \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2020\/12\/publisher-cancels-book-decrying-cancel-culture-robert-spencer\/\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWelcome to the Woke Trials \u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Eand \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/02\/new-york-times-publishers-banning-conservatives-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Efired Kate Hartson\u003C\/a\u003E who had published pro-Trump books.)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn imprint named after a 19th century upstart French leftist publisher, Louis Hachette, a white man, released a mediocre book claiming that there was a crisis of white male mediocrity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe incredible mediocrity of Moses, Hippocrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein might give some people pause, but Ijeoma explains that, “when I talk about mediocrity, I talk about success that is measured only by how much better white men are faring than people who aren’t white men”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESuccess becomes mediocrity, and mediocrity becomes success.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESadly for Ijeoma, Mediocre was mediocre and failed to match the success of So You Want to Talk About Race. Ijeoma had gambled that there was an audience of white leftist women who wanted to hear that white men were awful without enduring attacks on themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIjeoma had underestimated the masochistic tendencies of the average white leftist woman.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMediocre’s author imagines that she’s an “exceptional talent”, writing that, “most women and people of color have to claw their way to any chance at success or power, have to work twice as hard as white men and prove themselves to be exceptional talents before we begin to entertain discussions of truly equal representation in our workplaces or government.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat exceptional talents has Ijeoma shown beyond bashing white people on the internet?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMediocre is a random mess of intersectional clichés and historical sketches from periods that she clearly doesn’t understand as tries to roll them into her argument. “Stalin ended up being another white man who would distort entire movements to serve his purposes,” she insists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s almost coherent compared to chapters where Ijeoma leaps from attacks on cowboys to complaining about Bernie Sanders supporters on Facebook. None of this has much to do with the book’s supposed theme of white male mediocrity. The only common thread is that white men are terrible because they’re white and they’re men.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite male conservatives are evil, but so are white male leftists who only join causes to maintain their power. White men are locked “into cycles of fear and violence” and the “white male glorification of violence has saturated our action films”. It’s a curious claim for a woman whose African father wrote his thesis on the Biafra-Nigerian Civil War and whose country, which she identifies with, has been in the middle of one kind of civil war or another for generations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWomen have to “divorce ourselves from the lure of proximity to white male power” even “when those white men are our friends, our husbands, our fathers, or our sons,” Ijeoma Oluo argues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet Ijeoma followed her father, the “Honorable Chief Dr. Sam Oluo”, into political science. While her brother courted her father’s disapproval by playing music, she tried to imitate her absent father. And has spent her life making excuses for him and his culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen as a teenager she contacted Nigerians on the internet and they began to scam her, she processed it as the \"legacy of colonialism\" so that \"every white person scammed out of their life savings felt, in a way, like a bit of retribution for the ravages of colonization and slavery.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExcept that the Nigerian scam artists were just as happy to scam her as they were anyone else.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“My Nigerian father was Catholic for the same reason why he spoke with a British accent,”  Ijeoma snapped on Twitter. “Because his oppressors forced him to.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy did he abandon her? Probably because of those white oppressors. Like her mother.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s a story there about racial identity and hatred, gratitude and ingratitude, and the primal way that children can identify with a father who isn’t there while hating the mother who is.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s not a story that Hachette would publish or Ijeoma Olou would be likely to write.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, Ijeoma \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CBs-drKpGEE\/?hl=en\"\u003Eposted\u003C\/a\u003E a tribute to the white grandfather who had not abandoned her when her black father had. \"My father returned to Nigeria when I was two and was more of a story than an actual person in my life. But my grandfather, my Bob Bob, loved me so completely that I never felt lacking.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe photo that came with it showed an older white man holding a young black girl in his arms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELater that year, she published \u003Ci\u003EMediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\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"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1661651304725260368\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/white-men-are-terrible-insists-author.html#comment-form","title":"15 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1661651304725260368"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1661651304725260368"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/white-men-are-terrible-insists-author.html","title":"White Men are Terrible, Insists Author Abandoned by Her Black Father"}],"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\/-dZeEVrZbC3E\/YNyyK5mJSKI\/AAAAAAAATVI\/h8d66qmZQBgm2LjCwVVbwhE0EdslnDDZwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-30_110426.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"15"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1457880351148443029"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-20T04:19:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-20T04:19:24.696-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hollywood"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How HBO Max Went Woke and Broke on BLM"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"After a former Hollywood Foreign Press Association president \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/eight-time-president-hollywood-foreign-press-mark-tapson\/\"\u003Eshared my\u003C\/a\u003E Front Page Magazine article about the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/blm-goes-hollywood-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E BLM Hollywood connection\u003C\/a\u003E, WarnerMedia executives sent a boycott letter to the foreign press organization behind the Golden Globes. Their outrage was understandable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eyRtleWNE7U\/YM76A5dm9LI\/AAAAAAAATUE\/bdhjyAgHT3Q9h2y23w7TO9OVYqXiMyGGACNcBGAsYHQ\/s587\/image_2021-06-20_011915.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"370\" data-original-width=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eyRtleWNE7U\/YM76A5dm9LI\/AAAAAAAATUE\/bdhjyAgHT3Q9h2y23w7TO9OVYqXiMyGGACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-20_011915.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EMy article had cast a light on the ties between Warner and Black Lives Matter. No one had crawled harder and deeper into bed with the racist black nationalist hate group than the company that shared little more than a name with one of Hollywood’s signature studios whose name to most people still brings to mind everything from Bugs Bunny to Casablanca.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Warner brothers were conservatives while a typical billboard for HBO Max, Warner’s streaming effort to compete with Netflix, urges audiences to subscribe and tune in to an adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates's racist black nationalist tract “Between the World and Me”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Between the World and Me” featured Coates \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/ta-nehisi-coates-americas-next-top-victim-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Edescribing \u003C\/a\u003Ethe firefighters and police who risked their lives to rescue people on September 11 as “not human to me” and “menaces”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Their new name has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. the new people were something else before they were white--Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish,\" Coates writes in “Between the World and Me”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile HBO Max pulled and then restored “Gone With the Wind” over its \"racial prejudices\" complete with a disclaimer lecture, and Turner Classic Movies, owned by Warner Bros, launched a series condemning classic movies like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (Mickey Rooney's buck teeth), \"My Fair Lady\" (misogyny), and \"Psycho\" (transphobia),  it promotes the worst possible hatred of white people with million dollar contracts and massive billboards.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner Bros rewarded Coates’ racism further by having him write the script for a black Superman. Possible directors include Shaka King, the director of the Black Panthers propaganda flick, “Judas and the Black Messiah”, who \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/sight-and-sound\/features\/power-people-shaka-king-judas-black-messiah-daniel-kaluuya-lakeith-stanfield-fred-hampton\"\u003Ehad declared\u003C\/a\u003E, “I haven’t needed white people to care about what I do in years now” and “a centrist is, in many ways, more dangerous than a white nationalist, because they’re really silently propping up the system”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHBO Max’s’ Between the World and Me includes Alicia Garza, a co-founder of BLM. Garza is one of two BLM co-founders who is at home at Warner Bros. The Warner Brothers Television Group had signed a production deal with Patrisse Cullors: a self-described Marxist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BLM deal happened the same month that Channing Dungey became the Warner TV chair.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs ABC Entertainment boss, Channing Dungey had made the decision to fire Roseanne from her namesake show for comments critical of Obama crony Valerie Jarrett. Dungey jumped to Netflix, bringing along Scandal’s Shonda Rhimes who went on to create “Bridgerton” for Netflix, and worked with Barack Obama’s Higher Ground agitprop production company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDungey was one of the signers of the boycott letter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, all those deaths coming in quick succession — I think it’s opened up an entirely different conversation that particularly in Hollywood, coming in the wake of #MeToo, I think everyone is realizing that the business has been built on some systemic wrongs that need to be righted,” Dungey told Variety.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe nature of the systemic wrongs in an industry that took Dungey from a production assistant to the destroyer of genuinely talented people like Roseanne may be harder to define. But she’s a symptom of a larger problem at Warner Bros which has gone all in on black nationalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlong with Dungey and Rimes, Warner Brothers lured away black nationalist director Ava DuVernay with a $100 million deal. DuVernay’s “13th” series for Netflix had falsely accused America of slavery due to the high number of black people convicted of crimes in prison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Warner Bros also had no problem scraping the very bottom of the black nationalist barrel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter signing Cullors, it cut a deal with Kimberly Latrice Jones, a BLM activist who made a viral video in \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/blog\/transcripts\/kimberly-latrice-jones-blm-video-speech-transcript\"\u003Esupport of looting\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There’s a social contract that we all have, that if you steal, or if I steal, then the person who is the authority comes in and they fix the situation. But the person who fixes the situation is killing us. So the social contract is broken. And if the social contract is broken, why the f*** do I give a shit about burning the f***ing Football Hall of Fame, about burning a f***ing Target?\" the activist ranted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Far as I’m concerned, they could burn this bitch to the ground, and it still wouldn’t be enough.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe unhinged racist rant helped get her a book deal, a movie deal, and a deal with Warner which under AT\u0026amp;T has been happily burning the company and its brand down to the ground.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner also signed a multi-year deal with Phillip Atiba Goff whose thesis adviser was Cornel West and is the author of \"Saying 'No' to Whiteness\", to produce social justice content. Dungey described Goff as “a leading voice of moral clarity on critical issues facing our society”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the rush to elevate anyone shouting about the evils of white people, HBO Max is littered with basement garbage that looks like the work of college students laboring on public access TV.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can find “Random Acts of Flyness”, a typical episode of which is titled, \"They Got Some S___ That'll Blow Out Your Back\". The Terence Nance variety show features a \"family mourning a high-profile case of police violence\" and asks \"does the Second Amendment apply to black people\". One mock commercial features Mad Men’s Jon Hamm touting “White Be Gone” which promises to help those who are suffering “from white thoughts”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a sign of just how far Warner had toppled its intellectual properties into the gutter of black nationalism, it tried to turn over the Looney Tunes franchise to Nance to direct “Space Jam” with Ryan Coogler, of the anti-police agitprop “Fruitvale Station”, acting as producer. Coogler, who went on to direct Marvel’s black nationalist Black Panther fantasy, also produced “Judas and the Black Messiah” for Warner celebrating Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut you can also find HBO pushing “Beah: A Black Woman Speaks” about Communist activist Beah Richards who played a major role in the We Charge Genocide smear to divert attention from Soviet crimes by falsely accusing America of genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if you thought John Oliver or Stephen Colbert weren’t political enough, Wyatt Cenac's “Problem Areas” is a string of diatribes about racism and social justice. Cenac is a Daily Show veteran who jettisons much of the format and instead lectures audiences about racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHBO Max is struggling to catch up to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+, but the actual numbers show that it's far behind. While the service claims 44 million subscribers and touts ambitious plans to reach 150 million people by 2025, these numbers are suspect.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier this year, activations stood at\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2021\/02\/17\/take-hbo-max-subscriber-count-with-a-grain-of-salt\/\"\u003E only 17 million\u003C\/a\u003E. HBO Max no longer reports activations making its numbers meaningless. By the spring, AT\u0026amp;T had disposed of HBO Max and the rest of its Warner package by merging the whole mess with Discovery’s programming.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe deal also dumps CNN into Discovery under its CEO, Democrat donor David Zaslav.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile AT\u0026amp;T put the best possible face on this move, the $4 billion dollar bet had not paid off. And Warner’s massive investment in black nationalist programming had thoroughly failed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHBO Max’s biggest bump came from its decision to dump “Wonder Woman 1984” on the platform at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. The movie, starring Gal Gadot, a pro-Israel actress under fire by critical race theory activists, was the antithesis of the new intersectionality. The second biggest came from the Friends reunion: a show under fire for its lack of diversity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite HBO Max’s massive investment in black nationalism, its successes were all too white.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile all of its big streaming platforms rivals, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+, and Paramount+ invested in black nationalist narratives to varying degrees, none did so as belatedly, futilely, and relentlessly as HBO Max which threw away its brand and its future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarnerMedia may have boycotted the Golden Globes, but subscribers boycotted its service.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWarner bought into Black Lives Matter and built its content brand around militant black nationalism and anti-white racism. While AT\u0026amp;T’s CNN was touting the looters, AT\u0026amp;T’s HBO Max was being looted. Like so many other companies, after the woke comes the 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\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\/1457880351148443029\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-hbo-max-went-woke-and-broke-on-blm.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1457880351148443029"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1457880351148443029"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/how-hbo-max-went-woke-and-broke-on-blm.html","title":"How HBO Max Went Woke and Broke on BLM"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eyRtleWNE7U\/YM76A5dm9LI\/AAAAAAAATUE\/bdhjyAgHT3Q9h2y23w7TO9OVYqXiMyGGACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-20_011915.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4541508067199509069"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-28T04:30:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-28T04:30:00.423-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"cancel culture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"culture war"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"When the Only Way to Fight Racism Accusations is More Racism Accusations"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"When the San Francisco Board of Education decided to force admissions for Lowell High School to move from a merit system to a lottery, it was a declaration of war on Asian students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_EofOWhqTlc\/YG-uqmUBuhI\/AAAAAAAAS_c\/XzEMqHIGBfg_4gC7WxHQYTICWCVaUpgyQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s300\/nuclear%2Bpublic%2Bdomain.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"225\" data-original-width=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-_EofOWhqTlc\/YG-uqmUBuhI\/AAAAAAAAS_c\/XzEMqHIGBfg_4gC7WxHQYTICWCVaUpgyQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s0\/nuclear%2Bpublic%2Bdomain.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe temporary pandemic shift to a lottery system had already plunged the number of Asian students at the elite high school by 4.4% to 51%. A permanent lottery system would, as an article put it, “better reflect the diversity of San Francisco”. And in San Francisco, where Asian students make up a third, not half the student body, that means another 15% have to go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat means thousands of students being cut off from their dreams despite their hard work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELowell High School isn’t just any school. It’s a pipeline to the University of California, and to Ivy League colleges. Like its New York counterparts, like Stuyvesant, it’s a high-performing academic environment and part of the bargain between Asian parents and cities, ignoring the dysfunction of Democrat cities in exchange for an advanced educational pathway upward. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s also been the subject of lawsuits and litigation for decades.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA 1983 NAACP lawsuit forced San Francisco to limit any ethnic group to only 40% of the student body. The federal consent decree was devastating to Asian students\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We knew that if we did not desegregate Lowell High School, the school would have been dominantly Asian and white,\" an official at the time claimed. Successful court battles by Asian parents in the 90s challenged the effort to suppress Asian admissions. And litigation associated with these battles continued on throughout the nineties and the oughts. Faced with a ban on racial quotas, the NAACP resorted to claiming systemic racism at the majority-minority school.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the San Francisco School Board forced the lottery system to fight “pervasive systemic racism”, Asian parents didn’t just protest or sue, they dug up racist tweets by VP Alison Collins who had accused Asians of “white supremacist thinking” and called them, “house n___s”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Collins would have likely gotten away with her racist tweets at any other time, a wave of violent attacks on elderly Asian people in the Bay Area and New York City had become a civil rights issue, and racist rants about Asians, even from a minority official, were suddenly unwelcome. Collins refused to resign, but was stripped of her powers by her colleagues.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe events at a single high school in one of the wealthiest and bluest cities in America (Biden won 86% of the vote in San Francisco, after Hillary had won 84%) may not seem like they matter much to the rest of the country, but it’s also a lesson in the dog-eat-dog politics of cancel culture where the only way to counter accusations of racism is with more accusations of racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe battle against bigotry was supposed to make America a fairer place, instead it pits accusations of racism against each other in an arms race of callout culture. Some of Collins’ defenders are blaming her downfall on cancel culture even while ignoring the fact that she was one of the more enthusiastic proponents of it. The school board had canceled schools named after George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Paul Revere based on basic factual errors. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the real issue is whether we can even define a concept of fairness outside of race.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"When we're talking about... meritocracy, especially meritocracy based on standardized testing, I'm just going to say it... those are racist systems,\" Collins had previously insisted. \"If you're going to say that merit is fair, it's the antithesis of fair, and it's the antithesis of just.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf merit isn’t fair or just, then what’s left except claims of victimhood and racism?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd as the San Francisco School Board and Collins have discovered, that’s a knife that cuts both ways. The depressing alternative to merit is accusing your opponents of being bigots. And Asian parents in San Francisco have been forced to learn that lesson by the opponents of merit.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s also the lesson being taught to the Asian students of Lowell High School, who after a sustained campaign accusing them of racism, are now fighting back with accusations of racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA system based on merit teaches students to work harder, while a system based on cancel culture teaches them to spy on their classmates and wait for the perfect opportunity to twist the knife with incriminating screenshots of text messages before they can do it to you. Such caches of old chats going back to middle school are jealously hoarded until college admissions time comes around to be unleashed with the approval of college administrators and the media.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe fair and just alternative to merit is turning the educational system into East Germany.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsian parents and students want the right to compete. The right of minorities to compete used to be the most basic premise of racial equality. Instead it’s been replaced with equity, with diversity quotas, and an endless deconstruction of the system and its imaginary systemic racism until there is nothing to compete for except claims of victimhood and accusations of racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGet rid of merit in admissions, eliminate standardized testing, then banish any conventional study of academic subjects with history, literature, science, and math all deemed to be suffering from systemic racism, and education is reduced to a game of “Spot the Racism”. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen merit is replaced with accusations of racism, then that becomes the purpose of education. Equity takes on math, science, and other subjects don’t enable students to do a better job of mastering these subjects. Instead they’re taught to deconstruct the systemic racism of any subject in the same facile ways with no pedagogical standards, only political ones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStudents subjected to equity math don’t learn what 2 + 2 equals: only that it’s racist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELowell High School is both a school and a symbol of what it takes to succeed in America. Revolutions of merit, like the American Revolution, are profoundly liberating because they unchain individuals to pursue their own destinies, while ideological revolutions, like those of France and Russia, provide access to opportunity and survival in exchange for dogma and denunciations. Cancel culture is just the current incarnation of the Salem Witch Trials, the Jacobins, and the Bolsheviks. Thriving and surviving means denouncing others first with the cycle of denunciations eventually destroying the denouncers and tearing down the system\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDenunciation eventually ends at the guillotine. Just ask Robespierre or Collins. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe essence of anti-racism is universal guilt. If everyone is racist, then no one is truly innocent. It’s why the safest approach to being accused of racism is to plead guilty. It won’t save you, but it will demonstrate some understanding of the underlying dogma of the cultural revolution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut universal guilt also means that everyone will eventually be canceled for 15 minutes. And that’s true in San Francisco where everyone is already on the way to being canceled. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhere merit holds out potential to everyone, cancel culture ultimately deprives everyone. The two approaches are on a collision course in San Francisco which incubates both a wealthy technocracy and a radical leftist ideology. And it forces Asian-Americans to protect the future of their children by meeting accusations of racism with more accusations of racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsian students did not dominate Lowell High because of segregation or racism. They did so and still do because of hard work. A fair and just society rewards hard work. An unfair and unjust one teaches us to hate each other in order to get ahead. That’s become the San Francisco way.\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\/4541508067199509069\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/when-only-way-to-fight-racism.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4541508067199509069"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4541508067199509069"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/when-only-way-to-fight-racism.html","title":"When the Only Way to Fight Racism Accusations is More Racism Accusations"}],"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\/-_EofOWhqTlc\/YG-uqmUBuhI\/AAAAAAAAS_c\/XzEMqHIGBfg_4gC7WxHQYTICWCVaUpgyQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/nuclear%2Bpublic%2Bdomain.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3852885410518744631"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-22T04:46:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-22T04:46:00.494-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"illegal aliens"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Race"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Puts Specialist in Illegal Aliens in Charge of Census"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The media is touting Biden’s pick of Robert Santos as historic because he would be the first “census director of color”. Emphasizing the race or ethnicity of Biden’s nominees has become the media’s usual tactic for obscuring their radicalism while accusing their critics of racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a third-generation American whose grandparents came to this country over a century ago, whose parents raised him not to speak Spanish, Santos is hardly an oppressed minority.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kZP8Ph1J7eA\/YH-ZPEo7JBI\/AAAAAAAATBg\/sm78bbSJEgcwpx5rYydlboULoJxUX3mKgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s530\/image_2021-04-20_201717.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"495\" data-original-width=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kZP8Ph1J7eA\/YH-ZPEo7JBI\/AAAAAAAATBg\/sm78bbSJEgcwpx5rYydlboULoJxUX3mKgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-04-20_201717.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EDuring the census, the media repeatedly trotted Santos out to warn that minorities would be undercounted and that the citizenship question would suppress minority participation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If the administration tries to take out undocumented folks, that’s going to lead to lot of litigation,” Santos warned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There is no question that in my mind that the citizenship question would deter participation by some parts of the public,” he told NPR.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd for a nominee to head the Census Bureau, Santos has a curious specialty: illegal aliens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Urban Institute, where he serves as Vice President, stated that his, \"specialty areas include undocumented immigrants and other disadvantaged populations\". Santos’ first publication was for a partnership between the Urban Institute and the National Council of La Raza.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe La Raza report, partly authored by Santos, was titled, “Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children”. La Raza, meaning The Race. The term is based on La Raza Cosmica, an essay by Jose Vasconcelos, Mexico's leftist Minister of Education, whose racist obsession with creating a mixed master race led him to eugenics and Nazi Germany.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVasconcelos believed that mestizos would form a new fifth race that would be superior to Europeans and Africans whom he deemed inferior. While pushing a combined race\/ethnicity \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.keranews.org\/news\/2019-07-11\/2020-census-while-critical-is-facing-more-obstacles-than-usual\"\u003Ecensus question\u003C\/a\u003E in an interview, Santos said, “When I fill out the census form, I check the Latino-Hispanic-Mexican American box and when it comes to race I mark 'other' an insert 'mestizo' because that's how I feel about race and ethnicity.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESantos\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/img1.wsimg.com\/blobby\/go\/7906cf17-9203-41f4-afc2-0566df8672d9\/downloads\/Santos%20--BLS%20Keynote%20--%20From%20Chicano%20to%20Latinx.pdf?ver=1615661954458\"\u003E got involved\u003C\/a\u003E in the Raza Unida party when he was in college. The name means, “The Race United”. Its racial nationalism envisioned Aztlan, a new Aztec homeland carved out of America. Its famous chant, \"Viva La Raza!\" meant \"Hail the Race\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to worst, we have got to kill him,” Jose Angel Gutierrez, a founder and leader of the racist Raza Unida Party, had declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeing a member of a racist hate group would normally preclude any kind of major political post, but leftist racist hate groups are a different story.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The Raza Unida party gained some popularity and I was able to meet some of the principals in the city that included poets, musicians, political scientists, activists and so on.  I quickly embraced being a Chicano, a Mestizo…  I was Raza!” Santos cheerfully recollected his racial awakening. “They were more concerned with building political power and civic engagement.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESantos then went to college on a Ford Foundation fellowship. The Ford Foundation had been the financial backer behind Gutierrez’s Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) and later funded\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/government-regulation\/commentary\/getting-rid-la-raza\"\u003E the\u003C\/a\u003E National Council of La Raza.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Ford Foundation also provided support to the Urban Institute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I was among the last cohorts to benefit from Affirmative Action,” Santos noted. He joined the Association for Critical Social Studies, a radical leftist group whose only surviving mention is a mural that it sponsored entitled, ‘Struggle of the Classes’ by a Mexican Communist artist who had previously drawn pictures of Marx and Lenin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis career continues to reflect the use of statistics for political goals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESantos’ publications emphasize claims of discrimination. His policy areas include “immigration and refugees, environmental issues, housing discrimination”. No one was expecting Biden to put forward a moderate, but even his bio makes little effort to present Santos as anything other than an activist on a mission. And activists shouldn’t be in charge of the Census Bureau.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the census, his proposals, a combined race and ethnicity question, and adding a transgender category, have been heavy on identity politics. And identity politics is politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats claimed that President Trump was politicising the census, and now they’ve made it abundantly clear that they intend to politicise it by appointing a specialist in illegal aliens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Santos was fear mongering about the census, the media took pains to describe his Urban Institute as “non-partisan”. But it’s financed by the usual slate of lefty non-profit donors like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefellers, and Bloomberg's Everytown. Its political goals, especially when it comes to immigration, are quite familiar, and involved fighting against any effort to reform immigration even through the public charge rule.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe next census is a decade away, but Santos can help shape the statistical priorities of a radical movement that loves the idea of gaining data for its extreme political agendas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd in Santos they have a political activist with a history of radicalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe census is meant to measure the population of the United States, but Robert Santos, like most leftists besotted with identity politics, is only interested in narrow parts of that population.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat alone is reason enough why he doesn’t belong at the head of the Census Bureau.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESantos’ leftist racial nationalism is bad enough. In a lecture, he claims that, “just as Latino young adults embraced the terms Chicano and Mestizo in the 1970s, today’s Latino Millennials are drawn to the term Latinx which is gender neutral.” Latinx is as popular as Mestizo ever was. Few Latinos want to identify themselves through the ideas of radical leftist theorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Santos can’t envision Latino identity except through a leftist paradigm. Latinos, like the United States of America, must be broken and remade into a progressive new form.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELooking at a photo of himself as a child, he can \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/img1.wsimg.com\/blobby\/go\/7906cf17-9203-41f4-afc2-0566df8672d9\/downloads\/Santos%20--BLS%20Keynote%20--%20From%20Chicano%20to%20Latinx.pdf?ver=1615661954458\"\u003Eonly think\u003C\/a\u003E, “It’s a Davy Crockett shirt!  The same Davy Crockett that helped take Texas away from my Mexican ancestors.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not a man who can take America’s measure. And yet he’s Biden’s choice.\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\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\/3852885410518744631\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/biden-puts-specialist-in-illegal-aliens.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3852885410518744631"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3852885410518744631"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/biden-puts-specialist-in-illegal-aliens.html","title":"Biden Puts Specialist in Illegal Aliens in Charge of Census"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kZP8Ph1J7eA\/YH-ZPEo7JBI\/AAAAAAAATBg\/sm78bbSJEgcwpx5rYydlboULoJxUX3mKgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-04-20_201717.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}}]}});