Don't Argue with Liberals or Crazy People

Why sensible people avoid discussing race...

I had Monday morning off and I wandered back into Left Blogistan.  I couldn't help myself...  Kinda like driving by an old girlfriend's house...

The mid-term elections must have hit the lefties hard; they're cannibalizing themselves over there.


I stumbled upon a thread that illustrates why sensible people don't discuss race. The thread is also a beautiful microcosm of liberalism itself.

A blogger named Sheria wrote a piece about how she's tired of the left beating up on President Obama.  She larded her sermon with standard liberal pieties and pontifications, and topped it off with spicy dashes of racial identity politics:

See, as a black person I'm so sick and tired of white liberals who have still enjoyed the privilege of being white trying to tell a black man how to navigate in a white world.

The ensuing thread is bursting with fetishistic adoration of the author, and everyone congratulating each other on the profundity of their comments...

Wow - this is why I'm such a fan of yours.

I love how you make me stop and think.

the president might be black but the captains of industry are white and they call the shots.

When Sheria speaks, I listen. She challenges me, not just to think, but also to feel. Intellectual knowledge is not enough until you feel it in your bones.

The author soaks it in...

I am truly honored by your "amen."

I greatly appreciate your thoughtful response to my thoughts on this matter

Now some guilty white Marxista-babble...

Perhaps fair-skinned ultra-critics should just quit focusing their ire on the POTUS and instead view the matter dialectically

It was all going swimmingly until someone in the hallelujah choir decided to fly over the cuckoo's nest. TAO, a committed leftist, is tired of all the race-based blather...

What is the truth? That progressives are racists? Or is the truth that progressives cannot criticize democrats?

Uh Oh!  Holy Frijoles, Batman!  Someone's escaped Camp Groupthink!

"Tao, I've really enjoyed my time at SZ and up until now, I've always the discussion to be stimulating and respectful. But you have crossed a line."

Oooooh!  At that point, TAO, a white man, should have retreated, tail between his legs, because in the liberal milieu populated with wise Latinas, a female minority is always morally superior.  Heedless, MAO charged back with further info to clarify his point.  He did his best to be conciliatory, but he refused to kneel before the altar of racial politics, so the author shut down the conversation: 

I asked you to not address me but you don't listen very well.

This preachy blogger goes out into a public forum, charges racism (or at the least white cluelessness and unworthiness to speak on the issue), plays the victim card, and then casts opprobrium on someone for not responding correctly.  He's escaped the dialectical mumbo-jumbo framework and is speaking logically, so he must be shut down.  That is liberalism in a nutshell.

This is why white "cowards" do not want to discuss race.

Nothing pisses me off more than in discussions about race, non-black folks always want to suggest that racism isn't really the issue.

She starts by referring to President Obama as a black man, then ends up decrying the "one drop rule," and stating that Obama is "no more black than he is white." See? She owns the issue. The rest of us are there as a privilege she grants to us, as long as we sit in the corner, mouth politically-correct platitudes and otherwise behave ourselves. This is not conversation; it is lecturing.

This is not a "black" thing. It is a "liberal" thing. They want a dialog but then obsessively control it by alternately stroking and praising, and baiting and shaming.  When attacked, they hide behind victimhood narratives.

TAO sums it up nicely:

How can we discuss race when you own it?

Liberals closed all avenues of productive conversation with tea partiers by branding us all racists. So pardon our delight if we enjoy a self-satisfied chortle as they now turn on one another.

The Splash Porn 

Racial Attacks

Violent racial attacks are occurring... in Alabama?  Arizona?  Whitebread Iowa?  Nope.  In that nut and fruit bowl of diversity, San Francisco.

What are the attacks about?  Angry tea partiers beating and shooting minorities?  Arizona cowboys rounding up Mexicans?  White klansmen and neo-nazi Republicans attacking African Americans?  Nope.

African Americans attacking Asians

Although both groups have suffered discrimination over the decades, the African-American community has been declining here faster than in any other major city, while the Asian-American community has been growing, partly due to immigration.

Now almost one in three San Franciscans is of Asian descent, and many have moved into affordable, historically black neighborhoods. (Breitbart-Attacks on Asians)

Oh, that explains it!

Maxwell emphasized race was not a factor in the attacks—the problem was the violence inflicted on a neighborhood.

Race is not a factor...  That's good.  If it were whites beating up Asians or blacks, I'm sure it would have been, but anyway...

When Asian-Americans moved into black neighborhoods like Mrs. Cheng's, it may have created tensions that were exacerbated by economic stresses and deep language and cultural barriers, experts say.

Imagine if the sentence read, "When Mexicans moved into white neighborhoods like Mrs. Whitebread's, it may have created tensions..."  If the victims had been Muslims, this would be a federal case, and Reverend Sharpton's bullhorn brigade would be inflamed with righteous indignation. 

But it's just a bunch of old Chinese women getting beaten and robbed by poor black kids...  Nothing to see here, move along...

Liberals making excuses for the behavior of minority criminals is a form of racism

Crime is crime, regardless of which government-approved category the perpetrator or victim belong to.  Every group has its superstars and bad apples.  It does no one any good to leave the bad apples in the barrel. 

Melik Kaylan points out that tiptoeing around dysfunctions within a culture does no one any good:

As we laud and empower minority cultures for their vibrancy, when do we (or they) get to point out their shortcomings? Here's what happens: the minority culturati blame their flaws entirely on the dominant culture and get a free pass on the flaws within their own tradition.

How insulting to assume that minorities must be coddled and infantilized with ethnic cheerleading as a substitute for knowledge.

Indeed.  And the way you stop crime is to chase down the criminals and lock them up. I guess that's too simple for the social meddlers on the left.

DoD: Deparment of Diversity

I hate all that "Diversity is our strength" crap.  It is a forced diversity that has office managers telling people to pull down their American flags because one angry Muslim (who is living safely and getting a paycheck in this country) is offended.

It is a forced diversity that puts a great premium on getting just the right mix of lesbian Catholics, one-armed Haitians, transgendered, and of course the whole M&M bag of colors.

Real Diversity
Blogger Hack Wilson just got back from a month of Army National Guard training, and he blogged about his experience, with emphasis on the diversity of his unit.  It is a wonderful post that testifies to what a great, egalitarian organization our US military is.  

The Army is full of people of all races and backgrounds. I have made friends with blacks, hispanics, asians, arabs, native Americans, and just about every mix in between. When you wake up, eat, train, and sleep together you develop a sense of brotherhood and camaraderie that makes skin color a total non issue. Seeing as most leftists have never served in the military and hate it all together, it is no wonder they cannot understand this.

Army Accomplishes what College Campuses Cannot
Why is it that liberal academe is rife with social, cultural and racial unrest, while that most conservative American bastions known as the US Military is the most diverse and harmonious collection of Americans on the face of the earth?

Military men and women are the most tolerant, least bigoted people you will ever know.  We've seen great women leaders and we know from experience that skin color and national origin mean nothing.  Military people are the the least sensitive and least prejudiced people in the world.

Why? Because the military is a meritocracy. You can either do the job or you can't. Nobody cares what color, gender or religion you are as long as you can fix my truck or make the radio work when we need a dust off.

If you can't do the job, being white (or black, or female or Latino) won't keep you from getting bounced.  Wouldn't it be great if all of America were like that?

Welcome back, Hack!