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Ever"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"California legalized pot 5 years ago, but you couldn’t tell that from the scale of the drug war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery few months brings another massive bust. A 40-acre illegal pot farm in an obscure part of Death Valley, the \"most elaborate illegal marijuana\" setup in Mendota with\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/50000-marijuana-plants-found-at-illegal-grow-near-mendota\/10673498\/\"\u003E 50,000 pot plants\u003C\/a\u003E that was so big that police could smell it from 1,100 feet in the air, “vast groves” worth \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2020\/08\/massive-illegal-pot-farms-discovered-in-california-wilderness\"\u003E$169 million\u003C\/a\u003E in the eastern Sierras, and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsnow.com\/content\/news\/Siskiyou-County-has-almost-tripled-illegal-cannabis-plant-seizures-in-2020-572329961.html\"\u003E$285 million\u003C\/a\u003E in the old Shasta region of the gold rush.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2019, California seized almost 1 million pot plants. One busted operation not far from San Francisco was processing\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/27\/us\/marijuana-california-legalization.html\"\u003E 500 pounds\u003C\/a\u003E of marijuana a day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s762\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"492\" data-original-width=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EGovernor Newsom had kicked things off with an address announcing that he was pulling the California National Guard from fighting what he described as President Trump’s “manufactured crisis” on the border to “refocus on the real threats facing our state”, like “illegal cannabis farms”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENext year, 7 Laotians were brutally murdered at an illegal marijuana operation in Riverside by Mexican cartel members over Labor Day. With helicopters piloted by the Air National Guard and black SUVs full of DEA agents showing up in small towns, it’s like the drug war never ended.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESomehow the drug war in California is worse than ever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPro-pot advocates promised that legalizing drugs would bring in the money. And it did. Billions of dollars have been spent on “legal drugs”, but far more is being spent on illegal drugs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug war was fought by Republicans who believed that drugs were bad, but the new drug war is being fought by Democrats who love pot, but love drug money even more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe issue isn’t morality: it’s money.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn ounce of pot is estimated to cost as much as $100 more bought legally than on the street. The profit margins are great and decriminalization expanded the illegal market even more than the legal one. Buyers no longer fear being busted, sellers have little to worry about, and even the growers who take much of the risk don’t have to worry about the stigma. Illegal growing has become an environmental and financial violation. The only real thing to fear are the cartels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexican cartels now control much of the wilderness that California’s militant environmentalists had insisted on protecting from development. But while developers might fear the Sierra Club and its government allies, the cartels and the immigrant growers under their control don’t. What they’re afraid of is having their throats cut in the middle of the night. And as massive marijuana growing operations take off in wilderness areas, it turns out that the environmentalists were saving all that land so that drug lords from south of the border could grow millions in pot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile California’s legal agriculture industries are dying: its illegal pot industries are prospering. If you want to grow avocados, good luck getting the water. Instead, Californians are buying Mexican avocados, from which the cartels take their cut, while the water goes to illegal operations that aren’t worried about permits or environmentalist pressure groups in Sacramento.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia's rice production will fall by 20% and its avocado production fell by nearly half in 2019 from 338 million pounds to 175 million pounds, while its illegal pot production vastly increased.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug warriors wore suits and ties. The new drug warriors are the “entrepreneurs” who spent fortunes lobbying politicians in the hopes of cornering the market only to be stuck with a small slice of it aimed at upscale buyers willing to pay premium prices at boutique pot shops.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe environmentalists who once got high to commune with nature are among the most vocal special interests urging an aggressive war against this new form of agriculture which can’t be regulated. Behind them are identity politics groups and unions which want their cut of the cash.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA glance at the members of the Cannabis Advisory Committee shows some of the special interests involved from the pot workers branch of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union to the head of the California NAACP to environmentalists. Legal drugs means money for unions and community groups, which really means money for Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMexican drug cartels don’t pay consulting fees or offer donations to environmentalists, they don’t provide a cut to the black caucus, or hire unionized workers. It’s not the beheadings or rapes that bother California Democrats who shrug at such things from their gated communities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the illegal drug business is cutting into the profits from their legal progressive drug cartel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why Governor Newsom claimed that massive invasions of the country by illegal aliens are a “manufactured crisis”, but illegal pot farms that don’t pay his party are a serious threat. Illegal aliens build the power and wealth of the Democrats, but illegal pot farms steal from it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKarl Marx observed that history repeats itself as farce. California’s Marxists are doing everything possible to live up to their leader’s teachings. After spending two generations fighting against the old drug war in the name of civil rights, they’re fighting a new drug war for civil rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECivil rights being anything that increases the power and wealth of California Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why California’s Democrat majority passed a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/06\/california-spend-100-million-helping-pot-growers-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E$100 million bailout\u003C\/a\u003E for the “legal” pot industry. The widely reported bailout is really for the Democrats because it pays cities to hire experts to work with the industry on environmental compliance. What’s really going on is that the Democrat machine is paying its own environmental consultant class nine figures to navigate the roadblocks that same consultant class created in order to profit from the pot business.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s part of why an ounce of pot is $100 cheaper from the street than from a store.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocial justice is just a bunch of Marxist rhetoric behind which the same political mafia is moving money into its own pockets while laundering them through whatever ‘ism’ it’s fighting this week.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhether it’s the environment or systemic racism, it’s another way for Democrats to get paid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe old drug war was justified as a battle against a serious social ill, while the new drug war is just corrupt rent-seeking. The new drug warriors ridiculed the idea that locking up people for the harm caused by drugs was morally justified, but insist that locking up people because they haven’t paid the Sacramento mafia its share of the vigorish is completely morally justified.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia Democrats legalized drugs, further wrecking working class families, trashing what’s left of local agriculture and water supplies while feeding organized crime, to score $1.8 billion in tax revenues. But the illegal market is estimated at $8.7 billion. The new drug war is about the Democrats getting their hands on those extra billions by going back to the old drug war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy did California Democrats legalize drugs? It wasn’t to end the war on drugs, nor to make marijuana accessible to users with medical problems, or any of the other lies and excuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was to make billions of dollars.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia’s new drug war pits socialists against drug lords over control of the drug market. It’s a familiar dynamic in South America that, like so much else, has crossed over the border.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats cloak their new social justice drug war in racial justice, offering “reparations” from their drug money to black people, in environmentalism, decrying the impact of illegal grows, in unionization, and in the whole colorful spectrum of leftist virtue signaling. But virtue signaling is no match for the ruthless determination of the cartels and their state sponsors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the battle between the legal drug cartels of the Democrats and the illegal drug cartels of South America, the illegals are winning as they have won everything else in California.\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\/3778564347651845217\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/the-new-social-justice-war-on-drugs-is.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3778564347651845217"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3778564347651845217"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/the-new-social-justice-war-on-drugs-is.html","title":"The New Social Justice War on Drugs is Bigger Than Ever"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--3PW5NUK6RU\/YOVVLgQrb_I\/AAAAAAAATVo\/w5E8tDhMyyIItAbu1QV3vsyJBTWGAFy0gCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-07-07_001804.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-285843953193049014"},"published":{"$t":"2021-07-04T16:24:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-07-04T16:24:38.168-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Co-Dependence Day"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EJoe Biden is celebrating July 4th by proposing a massive expansion of the IRS. How better to celebrate the colonists who chased British tax collectors out than by replacing them with Biden's tax collectors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut every progressive person knows that Independence Day is for extremists. The dream of the new post-national nation is Co-Dependence Day in which we all live happily together in a planned economy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kKWR5WAGXWs\/YOIY-igAjeI\/AAAAAAAATVU\/KGcbRJKn5TklNHd_sNUZCC4Z1ZhyZJYsgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/the-march-to-valley-forge-efe4d9-640.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"497\" data-original-width=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kKWR5WAGXWs\/YOIY-igAjeI\/AAAAAAAATVU\/KGcbRJKn5TklNHd_sNUZCC4Z1ZhyZJYsgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/the-march-to-valley-forge-efe4d9-640.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe old British entity that Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and a bunch of other dead white men fought to be free of, has been recreated. The new London is in Washington D.C. whose bureaucrats throw fits if they're asked to leave the imperial city. The new social welfare empire is built on redistribution.\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA few centuries ago, some young white men had refused to have their property and their political autonomy redistributed to an elite thousands of miles away.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe very idea of having a revolution over such a thing seems entirely absurd to today's wokies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOr as another Englishman once again, \"Imagine there's no countries\". It's easy if you live in the EU.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll that the Crown really wanted was for the colonists to pay their “fair share”, a share that was determined thousands of miles away. All that the colonists wanted was the rights of Englishmen that they believed they were entitled to. After a great deal of bloodshed, the colonists won the right to be Americans instead—an odd series of consonants and vowels having to do with an Italian explorer but meaning personal freedom and limited government. Now we have free things, unlimited government, and our freedom shrinks in proportion to the growth of our free things and of the government that hands them out.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo the denizens of public housing watching the fireworks burn briefly in the sky,\u0026nbsp; who get a free ride on everything from food to housing by taking away everyone else's freedom and future, the fireworks are just one more free thing in the sea of free things that they swim in.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo the Democrat voters of the welfare state, this is Fireworks Day. Every country has its fireworks days and this is the day that this one chooses to light up the night sky. The day means nothing to them because though they are surrounded by free things, they aren’t free. The difference between freedom and free things has been progressively erased so that many think that the American Revolution was fought because the British were racists or weren’t providing free transgender surgery to the colonies.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf only they knew about the NHS, they would vote to undo the American Revolution in a flash.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere is a big difference between a free country and a country of free things. You can have one or the other, but you can’t have both. A free country isn’t obsessed with free riders, only a country of free things obsesses with making everyone pay their fair share for the benefit of the people who want the free things. Rugged individualism has given way to stifling crowds, co-dependent on each other, lined shoulder to shoulder, clutching at each other’s wallets, crying, “Take from him and give to me.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe are a nation overflowing with the right to things paid for with other people’s money.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe fireworks that shoot up in a wonderland of blue and red, silver and gold, are a faint echo of the real thing, the gunpowder that blasted back and forth between the lines of government troops, their Hessian mercenaries and the rebel colonists who chose to ride free, rather than bend their necks to the plans of an expanding empire. The faint smell of gunpowder and the dark shapes of the barges only mime the war that was fought here. A play of light and shadow whose meaning reaches fewer and fewer people each year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe expected speeches will celebrate some notion of independence, but did so many men risk their lives just to end up with a system that made the one they escaped seem positively libertarian by comparison? If they had known that they were going to end up with some version of the NHS, along with death panels, in a co-dependent system where everyone is looted for the greater good of the looters—they might have stayed home on their farms, sadly watching the fighting from a distance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJFK’s famous line, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” was always a hollow lie. Half the country is expected to ask what their country can do for them, while the other half is expected to ask what they can do for their country. This simmering civil war is often pegged as a class war, but it isn’t about class. There are billionaires and paupers on both sides, and the divide cuts across the Middle Class, dividing those who derive their income from private business from those who receive it from government and government-subsidized employment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Fourth of July is Independence Day, but every other day is Co-Dependence Day, the days we celebrate our integration, our volunteerism and our compliance with a vast system which makes everyone dependent on the government and which makes the government dependent on everyone who still works for someone other than the government.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Empires function by draining every drop from their possessions to cover their costs. The British Crown tried to drain America to pay down its debt, resulting in growing protests from the population and eventually a revolution. Now the Empire of Co-Dependency is draining its independent subjects for the benefit of its dependent subjects and the dependency infrastructure that employs its numberless bureaucrats who govern it all.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA new crisis is always here to justify higher taxes and bigger government.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe American Revolution was not a struggle for another nation, one of many, but for a free nation. It was not split off to accommodate the national strivings of an ethnic group or their historical destiny. Its guiding idea, like its national holiday, was independence, but independence means very little unless it reaches the individual.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA nation where everyone is part of one great co-dependent community, a centrally planned marketplace that can only be balanced if everyone is forced to buy what they are told to buy, is not a free nation. It will not even be independent for long. The logic of co-dependence is to expand that dependency beyond the borders and make the region and then every part the world dependent on one another to balance out the numbers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECo-dependence required an end to states rights. It will eventually require an end to the rights of nations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELike all pyramid schemes, the burden of dependency is passed on to greater and greater systems until its weight is more than that of the entire world. That burden of co-dependency is like a rock rolling downhill; it gathers more and more mass to itself, increasing its momentum, until it crashes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe system attempts to stay ahead of the inevitable crash by making sure that every productive person pays his “fair share”. It hunts for individuals and nations who still aren’t rolling downhill, tips them over and pushes them off the mountain. All in the name of the greater good.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The new Crown is not a person, it is an idea. The throne at whose foot a formerly free people kneel is the golden seat of the welfare state. While the fireworks light up the sky, a counterrevolution undid the revolution. There is a new king and his face is on every magazine cover in the land. His bounty is a jagged bear trap that turns everyone into a ward of the state at their own expense.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the last wave of fireworks die out, the shooting stars sinking to earth and vanishing into the darkness, the light of Independence Day fades and the crowds slowly trudge away from the brief spectacle, past the lines of police barricades, through narrow streets, past government buildings, back to their co-dependent lives in a co-dependent nation where the will of the people and the rights of the individual matter less than the latest proposal to solve the problems of their independence by making the country a more dependent place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few hundred years ago in these streets, men and women celebrated the end of tyranny, and in its darkest hour, lines of grim men marched along the waterfront up to the highest point on the island to mount a final defense. Sometimes the older buildings still wear their shadows on their brick walls and by the golden light of the fireworks you can almost see them, shadows moving in the darkness, their footsteps taking them north, a faint song on their lips, muskets in their hands, their lives lost and gained in defense of their freedom.\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/285843953193049014\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/co-dependence-day.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/285843953193049014"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/285843953193049014"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/07\/co-dependence-day.html","title":"Co-Dependence Day"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-kKWR5WAGXWs\/YOIY-igAjeI\/AAAAAAAATVU\/KGcbRJKn5TklNHd_sNUZCC4Z1ZhyZJYsgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/the-march-to-valley-forge-efe4d9-640.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$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":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6792509647216090333"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-28T23:03:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-28T23:03:00.088-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Barack Obama turns 60 over the summer. The AARP cover with Barry posing next to a basketball and a shelf of bestselling non-fiction books he hasn’t read can’t be too far away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--7lUFPdjObk\/YNqNWmMPFoI\/AAAAAAAATUw\/5dhQRZfbfncJ1Wua0tehO_EO2cT0rWqLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s706\/image_2021-06-28_200249.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"454\" data-original-width=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--7lUFPdjObk\/YNqNWmMPFoI\/AAAAAAAATUw\/5dhQRZfbfncJ1Wua0tehO_EO2cT0rWqLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-28_200249.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EOnce the symbol of youthful hipness, the former boss of Hope and Change now lectures “young people” on what they should be doing. His legacy is being carried forward by 78-year-old Biden and the 81-year-old Pelosi. That’s above the average age of 80 of the House Dem leadership.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe average age of the Biden cabinet is two years older than President Trump’s cabinet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe gerontocratic technocracy uses AOC as its younger foil, but she’s been a stalking horse for Bernie Sanders who will hit the big 80 in the fall. The big donors behind the American Left are even older with George Soros due to hit 90 the same month Obama gets to 60. The even bigger reservoirs of cash flowing into the leftist machine are coming from the foundations of men who were born in the 19th century like Henry Ford, John D. MacArthur, and John D. Rockefeller.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s about right for a 19th century ideology whose followers keep trying to make it look young.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYouthful leftism is anarchic. It’s CHAZ, BLM, and Antifa. It’s open air heroin markets, smashed store windows, and political assassinations. Turning that anarchy into collectivism requires hysterical propaganda and rallies that appear anarchic, but are actually tightly controlled, ideas that seem edgy, but are actually the work of men who were born during the age of the steam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you think Bernie’s old, Karl Marx celebrated his 203rd birthday in May.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama’s policies have aged as badly as Marx, Biden, or their front man. But instead of moderating as they grow older, they only grow more radical. Obama equivocated on gay marriage, while Biden entirely erases the existence of women by calling them “birthing people”. Obama covertly weaponized the government against conservatives, while Biden is doing it openly. Everything from election rigging through H.R.1 to indoctrinating every government employee with critical race theory is happening more openly and blatantly under Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYouthful leftist revolutions break the system while leftist gerentocrats impose the tyranny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaking tyranny look like freedom requires hefty doses of chaos and outrage that make it appear that the system is being broken when it’s actually being built up. Or as George Orwell wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” The revolution is the thing it’s revolting against.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe end of history keeps arriving only to vanish like a mirage when the youth reach for it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal,\" Obama told his followers. Two years later, he privately snapped, \"What does he think I'm supposed to do? Put on my f------ Aquaman gear and swim down there myself with a wrench?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThirteen years have passed and if the planet has begun to heal, Democrats won’t admit it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe moment of epochal change can never be allowed to arrive because it would interrupt the permanent crisis. Salvation is always here and also always out of reach. But there’s always a new generation available to be fooled again because they know the past doesn’t matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistory is radically revised every generation not just for what it teaches, but for what it doesn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA revisionist history work like the 1619 Project doesn’t just impose a radical new racist history, it displaces the past. Another revisionist history will come along to displace the 1619 Project because manufacturing history churn is vital to destroying any continuity with the past. All the academic lenses being swapped one for the other like a mad ophthalmologist leaves a new generation with a lot of theories, but no clue that they’re being indoctrinated into a lost cause.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left has no new ideas. Like Hollywood, it makes old ideas seem new by rebooting them, by making them appear hip and trendy, and by destroying a meaningful connection with the past. And that way audiences don’t realize they’re just seeing the same movie remade over again. What might be creative bankruptcy in a movie theater is a more seriously sisyphean problem described by Churchill as, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut how does a new generation learn from a past that isn’t allowed to exist on its own terms?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemonizing the past is a convenient way of obscuring it. The only thing students are taught about the past is that it was a horrible time, its people backward, its customs savage, its learning wicked, its institutions racist, and its ideas horrifying. In postmodern history, the past exists only as a cautionary tale gleaned for historical struggles that fit into the new narrative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistory is an incomplete present whose revolutions were never fully fulfilled. It’s a revolutionary story of a world ruled by villains until they were overthrown by the forces of good. And this revolution against history must continue until all of the past is negated by the present.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe destruction of statues and burning of books forces ‘presentism’ for the past to conform to the dogmas of the moment. The biggest problem with the past isn’t that it’s politically incorrect, but that it’s repeating itself. The Black Lives Matter movement transparently harkens back to the 70s. So do most of the radical social impulses in which the Left cloaks its real power agenda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe revolutionary chaos is doomed to fail again, but each oscillation breaks the country more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe social activism is window dressing. A proper Marxist regime has little use for militant minorities, feminism, gay rights, police defunding, transgender bathrooms, pipeline protests, abortion, or any of the other issues the radicals have been using to waste our time. If you doubt that, go look at how many of any of the above you can find in China, Cuba, or North Korea.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Russian Futurists vowed to throw the art and literature of the past overboard from the “steamship of modernity”. But the Bolsheviks were not looking for disruptive art and when the revolution arrived, modern art was tossed overboard and the former revolutionaries settled down to producing socialist realism and recreating the art of the past for the Soviet Union.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter a brief permissive period, the Soviet Union criminalized homosexuality and insisted on traditional marriages and roles for women. Those feminists who resisted were soon shown their place with one of the more notorious free love figures being forcibly married off by Lenin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe dictatorship had eclipsed the revolution and the past was quickly rewritten all over again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Obama approaches his sixtieth birthday, the age at which Khrushchev struggled for control of the USSR and Mao launched his Great Leap Forward, two events that would require a good deal of historical editing, our American past is already being rewritten. Only those who are at least in their thirties will remember that there wasn’t a racial crisis before Barack Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd there hadn’t been such a crisis for a generation before he took power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur racial crisis is not a legacy of 1619, but of 2008. Obama’s victory was not a revolution against a crisis, but the revolution that created the crisis. To a new generation, the racial crisis is a permanent feature of life. They have always lived under the crisis and expect to always live under it. That is why critical race theory and white privilege rants have become so pervasive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout a generation coming of age in a world shaped by the toxic idea that all white people are evil and all minorities are victims, no one outside academic circles would have willingly accepted them. And if that generation seems all too easy to radicalize into supporting the most insane policies, that’s because it grew up in a world defined by the hysteria of manufactured crises.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe world as they know it is doomed by melting ice caps, the rich getting richer, and the genocide of black people at the hands of the police. Every radical program is backed by a sense of urgent crisis which is killing people and destroying the future. They can’t imagine a present without the crisis and don’t remember ever living in a world not defined by crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Obama gets closer to his AARP cover, a generation lives in the world that he made.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike Obama, his radical political movement speaks endlessly about the past, but has no actual past. Its past is always being reinvented and retold through new narratives, but with no facts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama revolution has come and gone. We have skipped past it to the Soviet Union of Chernenko and Andropov, of gerontocrats building the tyranny with the beams of revolution. The decline is everywhere as the theories fail, the factories close, and the stores stand empty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe youth are being rallied to cheer for the revolutionary tyranny of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer who are promising a new era in history no one believes in anymore. Since the election their cause is no longer free college, it’s federalizing elections through H.R.1.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFederalizing elections, eliminating the filibuster, and packing the Supreme Court are compelling issues in Washington D.C., but the regime plotting new coups has little to say to the ordinary people facing high prices for gas and bread. Land, Bread, and Peace has given way to a race for total power over the country as the revolution of Hope, Crisis and Change comes of age.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no change without crisis, and without hope, there’s only hate.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6792509647216090333\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/obama-and-broken-nation-he-made-come-of.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6792509647216090333"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6792509647216090333"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/obama-and-broken-nation-he-made-come-of.html","title":"Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--7lUFPdjObk\/YNqNWmMPFoI\/AAAAAAAATUw\/5dhQRZfbfncJ1Wua0tehO_EO2cT0rWqLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-28_200249.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}}]}});