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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":"14"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2514827902088961157"},"published":{"$t":"2021-10-12T02:21:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-10-12T02:22:00.430-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"culture war"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"history"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The War on Columbus is a War on America"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E(I first \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2009\/10\/goodbye-columbus-america-apologizes-for.html\"\u003Ewrote this article in 2009\u003C\/a\u003E and have been posting it every year. In the decade since, Indigenous People's Day went from obscure revisionist history to the dominant narrative embraced by Democrats. Statues of Columbus have been destroyed or removed. Biden and numerous blue states and cities have gotten behind Indigenous People's Day. Some of the references from 2009 are no longer relevant, but a decade later the article's theme and its prediction, that the next target would be America and Independence Day is very much a current reality.)\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EColumbus may have outfoxed the Spanish court and his rivals, but he is falling victim to the court of political correctness. The explorer who discovered America has become controversial because the very idea of America has become controversial.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/StZ00sv0RYI\/AAAAAAAACrI\/c42D1QzmArQ\/s1600-h\/columbus.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/StZ00sv0RYI\/AAAAAAAACrI\/c42D1QzmArQ\/s320\/columbus.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThere are counter-historical claims put forward by Muslim and Chinese scholars claiming that they discovered America first. And there are mobs of fake indigenous activists on every campus to whom the old Italian is as much of a villain as the bearded Uncle Sam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EColumbus Day parades are met with protests and some have been minimized or eliminated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a number of cities Columbus Day was transformed into Indigenous People's Day, which sounds like a Marxist terrorist group's holiday.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter making a shambles of his efforts at socialized medicine, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed on to Indigenous People's Day. What began in Berkeley, spread to Denver, Pheonix and Seattle, among other cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo American state has followed Venezuela's lead in renaming it Día de la Resistencia Indígena, or Day of Indigenous Resistance, which actually is a Marxist terrorist group's holiday, but the whole notion of celebrating the discovery of America has come to be seen as somehow shameful and worst of all, politically incorrect.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe shift from celebrating Columbus' arrival in America to commemorating it as an American tragedy by focusing on the tribes who had settled there earlier, rather than the American settlers, is a profound form of historical revisionism that hacks away at the origins of this country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe attacks on Columbus Day have less to do with the distant descendants of those tribes, most of whom owe more of their ancestry to the later arrivals made possible by Columbus, than with the agenda of the left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnti-Columbus Day protests are mounted by La Raza, whose members, despite their indigenous posturing, are actually mostly descended from Spanish colonists, but who know that most Americans are too confused to rationally frame an objection to a protest by any minority group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe absurdity is deepened by the linguistic and cultural ties between the Italian Columbus Day marchers and the Latino Anti-Columbus Day protesters with the latter set cynically exploiting white guilt to pretend that being the descendants of Southern European colonists makes them a minority.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf being descended from Southern Europeans makes you a minority, then Columbus, the parade marchers, the Greek restaurant owner nearby and even Rush Limbaugh are all \"people of color.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EItalian-Americans are the only bulwark against political correctness still keeping Columbus on the calendar, and that has made mayors and governors in cities and states with large Italian-American communities wary of tossing the great explorer completely overboard. But while Ferdinand and Isabella may have brought Columbus back in chains, modern day political correctness is erasing him from history and replacing him with a note reading, \"I'm Sorry We Ever Landed Here.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut this is about more than one single 15th century Genoan with a complicated life who was neither a monster nor a saint. It is about whether America really has any right to exist at all. Is there any argument against celebrating Columbus Day, that cannot similarly be applied to the Fourth of July?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Columbus is to be stricken from the history books in favor of ideological thugs like Malcolm X, then America must soon follow. Columbus' crime is that he enabled European settlement of the continent. If the settlement of non-Indians in North America is illegitimate, then any national state they created is also illegitimate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is easier to hack away at a nation's history by beginning with the lower branches.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EColumbus is an easier target than America itself, though the left considers both colonialist vermin. Americans are less likely to protest over the banishment of Columbus to the politically correct gulag\u0026nbsp; than over the banishing America itself, which was named after another one of those colonialist explorers, Amerigo Vespucci. First they came for Columbus Day and then for the Fourth of July.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe battles being fought over Columbus Day foreshadow the battles to be fought over the Fourth of July. As Columbus Day joins the list of banned holidays in more cities, one day there may not be a Fourth of July, just a day of Native Resistance to remember the atrocities of the colonists with PBS documentaries comparing George Washington to Hitler.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese documentaries already exist, they just haven't gone mainstream. Yet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe celebrate Columbus Day and the Fourth of July because that is our history. Had the Aztecs, the Mayans or the Iroquois Confederation developed the necessary technology and skills to cross the Atlantic and begin colonizing Europe, the fate of its native inhabitants would have been far uglier. The different perspectives on history often depend on which side you happen to be on.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo Americans, the Alamo is a shining moment of heroism. To the Mexicans who are the heirs of a colonialist empire far more ruthless than anything to be found north of the Rio Grande, the war was a plot to conquer Mexican territory. And neither side is altogether wrong, but choosing which version of history to go by is the difference between being an American or a Mexican.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA nation's mythology, its paragons and heroes, its founding legends and great deeds, are its soul. To replace them with another culture's perspective on its history is to kill that soul.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is the ultimate goal of political correctness, to kill America's soul. To stick George Washington, Patrick Henry, Jefferson, James Bowie, Paul Revere, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and all the rest on a shelf in a back room somewhere, and replace them with timelier liberal heroes. Move over Washington, Caesar Chavez needs this space. No more American heroes need apply.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFollowed of course by no more America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D0Vh8qLs_ds\/TpO3j219SYI\/AAAAAAAAFMw\/-uXdJSY3xxI\/s1600\/Sprit_of_%252776.2.jpeg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D0Vh8qLs_ds\/TpO3j219SYI\/AAAAAAAAFMw\/-uXdJSY3xxI\/s400\/Sprit_of_%252776.2.jpeg\" width=\"300\" \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EThis is how it begins. And that is how it ends. Nations are not destroyed by atomic bombs or economic catastrophes; they are lost when they lose any reason to go on living. When they no longer have enough pride to go on fighting to survive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe final note of politically correct lunacy comes from a headline in the Columbus Dispatch about the Columbus Day festival in the city of Columbus, Ohio. \"Italian Festival honors controversial explorer with its own Columbus Day parade\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce the great discover of America, Columbus is now dubbed \"controversial\" by a newspaper named after him, in a city named after him .And if he is controversial, how can naming a city after him and a newspaper after the city not be equally controversial?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECan the day when USA Today has a headline reading, \"Some cities still plan controversial 4th of July celebration of American independence\" be far behind?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\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\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\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. 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After generations of accusing men of objectifying women by reducing them to body parts, the professional feminists are eliminating women entirely by reducing them to body parts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMs. is short for Miss which was itself short for Mistress. At some point, the magazine will have to be renamed to Xer or They. And the Feminist Majority Foundation owes its name to yet another romance language name for women creating a movement named after women without women. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECan there be a feminist movement without women? Will feminism have to be renamed Xerinism or Theyinism?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2020, 55% of white women voted for President Trump despite a drumbeat of denunciations of “white women” in the previous election. White women had built the feminist movement which then read them out of the movement. But black women, championed as the new face of feminism, have been replaced by “black birthing people” by the Feminist Majority Foundation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is the purpose of feminism without women except to prevent “birthing people” from birthing?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut feminism often didn’t have very much to do with women. The term was coined by the mad French socialist Charles Fourier who also believed that women should have four husbands and that human beings would grow to be seven feet tall and develop tails. More seriously, he envisioned the end of the family and collectivist living that influenced the nightmarish socialist utopias that used him as a model.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs one critic noted, Fourier envisioned abolishing marriage and using women for \"sexual services\" that would be \"bought by society as a whole to further industrial or general economic productivity\". It’s easy to mock Fourier’s deranged ideas, but his central premise of replacing marriage and the family with a collectivist system is still at the heart of modern feminism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFourier, like most leftist ideologues, reduced women to an abstraction, a cog in a social machine, and his contemporary counterparts abstracted the abstraction. Birthing people is the natural outcome of reducing people to a group and the group to an abstraction. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe current feminist abstraction, in which gender is a state of mind and the best way to reinforce that is by erasing the existence of women, is no less insane than Fourier’s utopian society of 7-foot-tall women with tails living in communes and practicing industrial prostitution. When you don’t deal with the reality of people, life becomes a science fiction novel written by inventing new ways of living to solve the social problems of human nature.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeftist theories ignore human nature and blame social problems on the failure of everyone to accept their theories, abandon their genders, private property, and religion, and grow tails. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe radicals insist that they’re liberators because they reduce everything to power relations. It was simple enough in the 19th century to reduce life to simple binaries of the rich and the poor, men and women, white and black, and declare themselves the champions of the oppressed against the oppressors. In a multicultural society, the binaries become more complicated. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut leftist ideology is a machine for simplifying human complexities into the same binaries.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntersectionality splits diversity into new diversities, subdividing each category into the oppressors and the oppressed. It was inevitable that intersectionality would come to condemn women as the oppressors within the entire category of women and then eliminate the category.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s not just happening to women.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELatinos are being replaced by Latinx and divided by race. The “white hispanic” is denounced as an oppressor. So is the white gay man within the gay category. Even black men are being reinvented as the oppressors in the black category.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr as one site put it, \"Straight Black Men Are the White People of Black People\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd women, apparently, are the white people of birthing people. Can you blame feminism for turning its back on women after they turned out to be the oppressors?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFeminism, like every other ‘ism’ and every identity politics movement, was not concerned with the rights of women, but with social utopia. Identity politics is just a multiplicity of front groups for the same movement which co-opts group struggles in order to construct a totalitarian state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Would it not in that case be simpler for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?\" Bertolt Brecht rhetorically asked the East German regime after it warned that the people must win back the confidence of the government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the Left does this sort of thing all the time. Having dissolved the white working class, it still claims to fight for the working class because it elected minorities as the new working class. Now it dissolved women and elected birthing people as the new women. That’s easy to do if you believe that all of life, including women and the working class, are just a set of premises, a category someone invented, a few lines in a thesis statement.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike the way Columbus, Ohio abolished Columbus Day, but kept its name, Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation, not to mention the numberless other feminist organizations, are getting rid of women, but still keeping the “W” word, Ms. and Feminist in their names.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ACLU rewrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s quote, “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity” to eliminate “woman” and “her”, but it hasn't renamed the ACLU Women's Rights Project that Ginsburg co-founded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe leftist advocacy group understands the emotional power of the “W” word. When it calls Ginsburg a \"champion for abortion and gender equality\", the phrase has curiously little power compared to a “champion for women”. Replacing women with “birthing people” only to champion the ‘unbirthing’ of their babies is a typically self-nullifying proposition. As is championing “gender equality” while eliminating the gender that might be in need of equality from the proposition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s precious little dignity in fighting for “birthing people” and “people with vaginas”. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFeminism without women is as hollow as class warfare waged by trust fund hipsters. And yet the Left must destroy that which it champions in an act of ritual ideological sacrifice. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBack to the Fourier days, the purpose of feminism was the elimination of women, much as the purpose of the civil rights movement had become the elimination of black people, and the gay rights movement the elimination of gay people. The Left doesn’t fight for equality, but equity, laboring to remake society by remaking people in its ideological image. Identity politics gains its apotheosis from reinventing identity so thoroughly that the original identity ceases to exist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd its problems cease to exist with it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut bereft of any new ideas, identity politics only revisits what it claims to want to escape, resurrecting the plantation for black people and the harem for women in the name of progress. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe reversion to slavery and oppression promises to usher in a new age that abolishes all distinctions between human beings in which we will all, perhaps, inhabit a Fourieresque world of seven foot tall socialists with tails living in communes, but the age never actually arrives. It’s much easier to erase women or human nature from language than to actually change reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFeminism can act as if women no longer exist, but the realities of biology will outlive the unrealities of leftist ideology.\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\u003Cdiv\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\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\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\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6153669468278319880\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/09\/feminism-without-women.html#comment-form","title":"12 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6153669468278319880"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6153669468278319880"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/09\/feminism-without-women.html","title":"Feminism Without Women"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y2__itmziVs\/YVUtMTkpzlI\/AAAAAAAATfA\/4SwSi4J9-yYD1IzwsNkP_woEPmVnA8NwwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/rachel%2Blevine%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"12"}},{"id":{"$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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4683928847101112636"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-30T14:05:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-30T14:05:35.044-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Baltimore"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Culture"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"culture war"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Woke Museum in an Illiterate City Goes for Broke"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Baltimore is overrun by murders, rats, and rampant illiteracy. Then its art museum went woke.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike a medieval monastery after the fall of Rome, the Baltimore Museum of Art is a relic of another time filled with the relics of another era. The Baltimorean merchants, bankers, and railroad tycoons who decided a century ago that their city needed an art museum to boost its civic pride are long gone and Charm City’s favorite work of art is its mascot: a giant rat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDoes a city where a third of the population is functionally illiterate need a large collection of French impressionists? And does one of the nation’s murder capitals need Andy Warhol?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Uy_QOnkR0EI\/X6n1sOdoD7I\/AAAAAAAASkE\/NPrKDFSAyOkBXyrPl1YqDUjUBMSyynrrACNcBGAsYHQ\/s639\/image_2020-11-09_180632.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"423\" data-original-width=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Uy_QOnkR0EI\/X6n1sOdoD7I\/AAAAAAAASkE\/NPrKDFSAyOkBXyrPl1YqDUjUBMSyynrrACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2020-11-09_180632.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhen the woke Visigoths took over the BMA, they came for the white men first. And the museum’s collection is full of the works of white men: precious and worthless both.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"At the BMA we have a singular vision for our immediate future, which is to put equity, diversity, and justice at the forefront of every decision,\" Christopher Bedford, the museum's very woke curator, declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsma Naeem, a Pakistani immigrant and the BMA's new art curator, attacked a critic for not understanding the “equity-based vision, values and considerations that undergird our decision.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EArt, schmart. Who needs art when you’ve got the creative fires of social justice that made Soviet art into an influential movement that changed the world as we know it burning in your soy belly?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBedford, who is an extremely white man, announced that the museum would no longer be buying art by white men this year. Between Rembrandt, Titian, and Durer, they've got too many.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You don’t just purchase one painting by a female artist of color and hang it on the wall,” he insisted. “To rectify centuries of imbalance, you have to do something radical.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBedford had already begun purging the collection by putting seven major paintings on sale, including by Warhol, to buy “art” by “artists of color”. Since Bedford wouldn’t know art if it fell on his head, which at the BMA is a possibility, that part was easy. The rest was complicated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPesky questions about the sale reared their head, like did Bedford even have a right to sell the art. The sale or ‘deaccession’ as they call it in the art world, was happening under regulations meant to help museums deal with the pandemic. But the BMA wasn’t reacting to the Wuhan Virus, but the Woke Virus, and it wasn’t selling art because it needed money, it needed woke.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it was unclear if the paintings had been gifted under conditions that would allow the sale.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EProminent voices in the art community, including former key figures at the BMA, protested. Sothebys blinked, announcing the auction would be postponed, and then unblinked, claiming that the postponement had been an error in which it confused an Islamic museum in Israel with the BMA. That’s the sort of natural mistake that happens at a major auction house all the time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFinally, the BMA’s own board canceled the auction at the last minute blaming the public outcry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore importantly, the Association of Art Museum Directors made it clear that the BMA was abusing its relaxed guidelines during the pandemic to do something pandemic-unrelated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Our vision and our goals have not changed,” the BMA unapologetically declared “It will take us longer to achieve them, but we will do so through all the means at our disposal.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BMA will lose $50 million with former board chairs pulling \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.artforum.com\/news\/baltimore-museum-of-art-loses-50-million-planned-gift-over-deaccession-84269\"\u003Etheir donations\u003C\/a\u003E in order to make $65 million. But it’s about the destructiveness of the act more than the actual money. How else can the BMA’s new leadership prove that they’re revolutionary visionaries than through a round of politically correct épater le bourgeois virtue signaling and racial divisiveness by a white man?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The most important artists working today, in my view, are black Americans,” Bedford declared.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy “important”, Bedford and the museum of an illiterate city don’t mean talented or aesthetically pleasing. When your “lens” is social justice, then important means anti-American. And so the most important artists are the ones who have the most moral leverage for hating this country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are few aesthetics at stake in trading one set of nonsensical childish images for another, the broad abstract brushstrokes of Franz Kline’s Green Cross and the green finger painting splatters of  Andy Warhol’s Oxidation Painting, for Mark Bradford's hyperkinetically colorful  visual gibberish, or Amy Sherald, who produced the notoriously terrible Michelle Obama portrait.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe art world dispensed with aesthetics and tradition, leaving nothing but abstract concepts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Baltimore Museum of Art is another scene on the woke battlefield, replacing abstract sneering at American culture and religion with abstractions that rage against America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerican wokeness is just pop Marxism. Our cultural revolution is a rerun of Russian and Chinese totalitarianism with corporate sponsors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the Bavarian Soviet Republic, there was an abortive attempt to set fire to the museums. The Russian Futurists declared in one of their manifestos that the creative works of the past had to be “thrown overboard from the steamship of modernity.” But all of this posturing ended with the Futurists and everyone else being forced to produce Socialist Realism for propaganda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only thing totalitarian regimes really want when it comes to art is mass communications.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Baltimore Museum of Art, like many institutions public and private, is being reimagined as the projection of a new political order, each part of it meant to articulate a single ideology. The result isn’t an art museum, just as socialist realism’s propaganda posters weren’t art. Art, as a painting or a museum, is meant to inspire and reflect, while propaganda short circuits both.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPropagandists don’t want people to think. What they want is for them to agree.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn art, as in life, the initial revolutionary thrill of destroying the old gives way to the stultifying reality of the totalitarian order. Totalitarian revolutions don’t create, they destroy, and their only message is the familiar one from Shepard Fairey's old \"Obey\" giant stickers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFairey would become much more famous for creating the iconic Obama “Hope” poster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"How did this work, no matter how righteous or well-intentioned, help George Floyd as he was pinned to the ground by a white man in a uniform, in broad daylight, surrounded by onlookers, as his life faded away over almost nine minutes?\" Bedford demanded to know in the Baltimore Museum's new vision statement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat Baltimore really needs is less traditional art and more art to inspire race riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAndy Warhol probably wasn’t much use to George Floyd on account of being dead. Floyd might have tried to hit the officer with a copy of Warhol’s The Last Supper, one of some hundred distotrted yellow reproductions of the famous painting, the BMA wanted to sell for $40 million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of the artists being sold off would have helped George Floyd because they’re also dead or fairly elderly. None of them are located in Minneapolis. The BMA’s largest Matisse collection in the world would have been even more useless as Matisse is dead and also not in Minneapolis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot to mention every BMA artist from Rembrandt to Picasso. If the purpose of art is to save career criminals high on drugs when they get into confrontations with police, then art is useless.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that’s activism, not art. And when art melds with activism, it becomes propaganda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat the BMA’s director was saying is that art is useless unless it’s agitprop. Nothing is of any value unless it serves the cause of Black Lives Matter. Or, as Stalin once put it, artists are the “engineers of souls”. Behind the feeble attempt at poetry was the reduction of art to machinery. Engineers were needed to service tractors and artists would have to service their operators. The goal of art, like farm equipment, was to keep the vast failing machine of socialism running.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBaltimore is almost as much of a disaster as the Soviet Union and needs its own propaganda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe declaration that art is useless unless it serves a racial agenda is the familiar one of Socialist Realism which declared that art which doesn’t serve the working class is worthless.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr as the All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers declared, “the artistic representation of reality must be linked with the task of ideological transformation and education of workers in the spirit of socialism.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the BMA credo has become that of American culture. Everything, from standup comedy to fashion to literature to journalism to education, must serve a single political purpose. If your comedy routine or your capri pants wouldn’t have saved George Floyd, they must do better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWoke culture transformed comedy into hysterical political screeds (not in the funny sense) and everything else into a seesaw of pandering and indoctrination that conscends to minorities and badgers white people without ever creating anything of lasting value or merit because it exists purely for the needs of the moment. The irony of jettisoning Warhol for woke agitprop is that the woke art is as disposable as the commercial advertising culture that he was mocking. When everything is a slogan, then nothing has a message that lasts beyond momentary manipulation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd an art museum, a university, or a national culture built on such things has no future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust ask the Soviets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Baltimore, like so many American cities, has no future. The old Baltimore that built the BMA envisioned a booming tomorrow and dug into its pockets to show it was as good as New York City. Where is Baltimore headed besides gangs murdering each other on broken streets, sewers full of dead rats, drug deals, corrupt politicians and mobs ravaging what’s left of the fallen city?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen you’re already broke, you might as well go woke. It makes the ride down more interesting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe looting of the BMA is a perfect coda to a looted city. The old BMA was meant to inspire and some of the museum’s impressive art collection still can and does. But culture can’t thrive without a culture. The Greeks and Romans didn’t lack for great works of art, what they lacked at the end was the character and vision to sustain a culture that had been founded on great things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn art museum in a national disaster of a city is little more than a medieval monastery holding on to some fragments of civilization while outside warlords and their mobs loot and pillage cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the woke Visigoths have come for the museum even if they don’t understand what’s in it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Museums are not mausoleums or treasure houses,\" a letter co-written by Asma Naeem snippily concludes. Unfortunately, not for Naeem, but for the human race, the BMA is a treasure house of French art, one of the greatest such treasure houses in the country, that is now at risk.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe woke age is a dark age and the pillaging is underway.\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\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4683928847101112636\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/a-woke-museum-in-illiterate-city-goes.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4683928847101112636"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4683928847101112636"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/a-woke-museum-in-illiterate-city-goes.html","title":"A Woke Museum in an Illiterate City Goes for 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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Uy_QOnkR0EI\/X6n1sOdoD7I\/AAAAAAAASkE\/NPrKDFSAyOkBXyrPl1YqDUjUBMSyynrrACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2020-11-09_180632.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3234399846472486375"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-19T12:33:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-19T12:33:01.948-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"culture war"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"entertainment industry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"political correctness"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The End of Sports"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"When the Dodgers won the World Series, few Americans were watching the game that had once been dubbed America's Pastime. The 2020 World Series broke all sorts of records, mostly bad ones, becoming\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/2020-world-series-dodgers-rays-ratings-average-viewership-mlb-023421427.html\"\u003E the least watched\u003C\/a\u003E world series. With an average of less than 10 million viewers, the series commanded the attention of some 3% of Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/mlb-world-series-2020-tv-ratings-down\"\u003E32% drop\u003C\/a\u003E in viewers came at a time when people, many stuck at home, are obsessively watching television. What were the other 13 million who had been watching last year do? The one thing they weren’t doing was watching a game they had once cared about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt wasn't just baseball.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe NBA finals ratings dropped 51%. Game 6 brought in 8.2 million viewers and the series only managed an average of 7.45 million viewers. That's after the conference finals brought in just a little over 4 million viewers. And the NFL is facing its own ratings struggles as are other sports.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kswGYJVQRr4\/X7VbzgY2-FI\/AAAAAAAASlQ\/NoiUZsH8vB0MBQlO8iUHNImWAurfg5gvgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s747\/image_2020-11-18_093714.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\/-kswGYJVQRr4\/X7VbzgY2-FI\/AAAAAAAASlQ\/NoiUZsH8vB0MBQlO8iUHNImWAurfg5gvgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2020-11-18_093714.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe media has frantically dug for apolitical reasons to explain these trainwreck numbers, but the simple reality is that sports used to be competitively divisive, but are now politically divisive. The truly woke viewers are exiting for the WNBA and women’s soccer, whose numbers are up, while conservative viewers are jettisoning current games for highlight reels of past glories.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESports used to be a metaphor for America. Practice, play fair, and win. The rules might differ, but the meritocracy of talent and the ethics of sportsmanship were essential to American life. The metaphor is different now. Don’t bother playing, get woke, become a nuisance, score a $126 million contract with Nike, followed by a Netflix series about your life, and become an icon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESports is still a metaphor for America, but a very different kind of country in which talent doesn’t matter, but monetizing radical aggrieved victimhood is how the game is really played and won. And if that’s what it takes to become a sports icon, whatever your politics, why bother watching the game when you can tweet support for the BLM protests, or just get out there and riot?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Sports and the media are blaming the presidential election for their viewership drop. They’re not wholly wrong, but they were the ones who politicised the game. The message behind all the protests, the kneeling, the locker room boycotts, the emblems and the stunts, was that politics is more important than sports. Viewers took them at their word and changed the channel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf politics is America’s real national pastime, why waste time watching a few failed Colin Kapernicks, who may have a better arm, but worse public relations timing, do their thing? If they had just dropped out and spent years protesting, they could have also been sports icons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe problem with politicising everything is that everything then becomes irrelevant. If sports only matters when it’s political, then it doesn’t matter. Neither do food, fashion, music, or any of the other things that people used to care about before caring became exclusive to politics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Union only cared about sports as a vehicle for proving the superiority of the New Soviet Man so that even Soviet women playing sports turned out to be New Soviet Men. Soviet sports were uninteresting because they existed for ideological reasons. Players were advanced or tanked based on their sponsors within the Communist Party. Those athletes who could, did their best to escape the USSR so that they would be able to play for themselves.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut where do you go to defect from the NFL, MLB, or the NBA?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Soviet Union flagrantly cheated when playing non-Warsaw Pact countries because the triumph of Communism was much more important than the rules of the game. But the whole point of a self-contained world with its own rules, absurd as they might occasionally be, is as a test of character. When the rules don’t matter, neither does the game. That’s the woke crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWokeness insists that the moral, ethical, and procedural rules that govern our lives don’t matter in the face of the systemic racism that leads police officers to shoot criminals. It’s okay to loot stores, ambush drivers on highways, and stab police officers. If human life and personal property don’t matter in the face of the urgency of woke politics, then what rules do?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd if we can’t agree on any rules, what’s the point of playing?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Sports began violating its own rules to accommodate woke protests against America. The impact may be less immediately destructive than Black Lives Matter rioters setting fire to a neighborhood, but ended up setting fire to the business model and ratings of the industry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESports has always been a form of ritualized combat whose purpose was a test of character. When character doesn’t matter and the rules don’t matter, all that’s left is the combat, and the real battles are taking place off the field and the court. And viewers are changing the channel to CNN or FOX News where the combat is closer to being real than in the sports bubble.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media and Big Sports promise that will change when the election is over, but the fight isn’t over, it’s just getting started. Elections have become another game where the rules don’t matter. And in a country where ritualized political combat is becoming more combative and less ritualistic, ritualized combat that is becoming more political and less combative won’t play.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe NFL and MLB, and to a lesser extent the NBA, depended on a national consensus. The end of the consensus means the end of the nation and, much less seriously, their end. It’s no coincidence that the high point of the hero worship of great players came when Americans were united in their values and in their sense of national purpose, or that all of the above are passing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans do fewer things together. The old network appointment viewing of sitcoms, dramas, award shows and games has given way to scattershot streaming geared to individual taste. Big Sports was never going to survive in an environment in which we agree on few things, and in which everything is a political test that will alienate a quarter of the country either way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBig Sports, like their corporate partners, decided that pandering to the radical sports journalists, to woke companies, and to the Wokicrats who run much of the country mattered more. And in the process they revealed the underlying truth that Disney, Nike, and the cultural values of their executives mattered more than the games they pretended to care about. And the rest is history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe falling ratings are a symptom of the end of sports. MLB, the NFL, and the NBA aren’t going away, but neither are they going anywhere except to Communist China. Like Hollywood, the country’s other big entertainment industry has abandoned America while expanding to China. Americans have less money and fewer people, and the rules of the game are too complicated.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn China, the rules are simple. Don’t mention Hong Kong or Taiwan, and praise the Party.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s cultural rules have become bewilderingly complicated as the country fractures, and there’s no way to win. Kneel or stand for the anthem, everyone still loses the Catch 22.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the end of sports is the end of hundred million dollar contracts, not the end of the game. The games, the real ones, were played to see how far a ball can go and what a man can do. The familiar games we play had their echoes in the dust of medieval European towns and on Greek fields. The games will not be lost, only the huge corrupt industries that grew around them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the role of the billion dollar sports industries fade in the lives of ordinary Americans, the  games will live on in backyards, cul-de-sacs, and grassy fields where we will go on playing them, instead of paying to watch others play, and we’ll do it by the rules we grew up with. We will go on standing for the anthem and testing our arms, our legs, and our hearts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn sports, as in life, it is not the big organizations, but what we do as individuals, that define us.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3234399846472486375\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/the-end-of-sports.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3234399846472486375"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3234399846472486375"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/the-end-of-sports.html","title":"The End of Sports"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kswGYJVQRr4\/X7VbzgY2-FI\/AAAAAAAASlQ\/NoiUZsH8vB0MBQlO8iUHNImWAurfg5gvgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2020-11-18_093714.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}}]}});