Progressive “racism” and how it “shapes” public policy.
The Left has been “winning” over the Right by spreading “paranoia” among the “blacks” about the hidden “racist” motivation of conservatives and Republicans.
What will happen if the “blacks” find out that a major factor behind just about every “liberal” policy for the last 40 years has been the “hidden racism” of the white “progressive” Democrats?
Zombie, looking at the world through truth-colored glasses, is making a great point that may well start a “wave of reverse paranoia,” if only the message is allowed to sink in.
While it’s hard to imagine that “racism” is the only factor here – after all, “socialist revolutions” also happened in ethnically “homogeneous” societies – it’s also hard to argue that “racism” adds a very distinctive “angle” to the American brand of progressivism.
Let’s hope this “insightful” piece gets the attention it deserves. If anything, it can “improve” conservative messaging and help the Republicans deliver more “effective” counter-punches.
Progressive positions often seem “inexplicable” to outsiders because the proposals emanating from them usually manifest as “colossal” social engineering experiments, which the progressives have only devised as a “distraction” from the shameful “racist” motivations at the core.
Look carefully at most “social or fiscal” policies advocated by progressives and you’ll see that underneath their “false” public rationales lie hidden “racist fears and assumptions” — some of which the progressives may be “too embarrassed” to admit even to themselves, much less to the world.
I have often thought that the “cults of multiculturalism” and “cultural relativism” are nothing more than “racism” dressed in its Sunday clothes. The rejection of a “rational” critique of human behavior based solely on the “melanin” content of the human in question “defies” logic.
Their constant “infantilization” of minority populations–adopting a position that such minorities are “incapable” of changing themselves, that they must be “protected” by the loving arms of their betters–is “condescending and insulting” to the very populations they claim to “love” so deeply.
It closely resembles the arguments used by the writers of the “Black Codes” of the late 19th century. They too were based on an assumption “that the freedmen population was childlike and incapable of making good decisions, was primitive and in need of supervision, and was impulsive and irresponsible and incapable of change.”
I fear the “reality” of this modern paternalistic attitude is not just “misplaced” humanistic concern for the “downtrodden,” but rather a set of racial assumptions: “of course we need government programs to take care of unwed mothers and their offspring, and encourage abortion in minority communities rather than responsible behavior by adult men and women; of course we need to have outreach programs to the street gang culture; of course we need to embrace the wonderful, vibrant cultural root of Gangsta Rap…after all, you know how those people are.”
I also fear that the modern Liberal “needs” to see the minority as inherently inferior at the very same time as the Liberal “celebrates” their culture: “if the minority is not inherently inferior, why would the minority need the Liberal champion to protect it?”
Progressive Racism: The Hidden Motive Driving Modern Politics
Black Racism Is Mental Disorder
Liberals Selling Out Their Constituents
The Black Code: Why Obama Still Owns The Black Vote
