I actually think this article is too weak. It's not a soft bigotry. It's a very harsh, aggressive, and ugly bigotry. In addition, the Right needs to directly challenge some of the moronic "truths" that the Left presumes about race issues, which this writer doesn't really do. The Joachim tweet is full of horse crap that shouldn't go unchallenged.
"1. Racism is abt the powerful keeping down the powerless."
No, it isn't. That's Marxist ********. Racism is about advocating an inherent superiority of a race over another race or about treating people differently because of their race.
"2. We (generally) are the powerful."
No, we (white people) generally are not powerful. Just because most who are powerful are white doesn't mean that most who are white are powerful.
"3. "White ppl" isn't a slur"
This is true. Neither is "black ppl" or other similar terms. The problem with her comments is what came after "white ppl."
"4. "***" and the N word are slurs, because they subordinate"
No, they aren't, and they don't. They are slurs, because society has deemed to be slurs and assigned negative connotations to them. It's nothing more and nothing less than that.
"5. Your moral equivalence is nonsense."
Only if you accept the previously mentioned falsehoods.
"6. "Reverse racism" isn't a thing."
See answer to No. 5.
I thought
this article from Oz Sultan was well stated. A portion is copied here.
Before, racial minorities (Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous people) would typically be the ones raising an issue when there was a case of discrimination or racial bias. But in 2016, we started to see a radical departure from the conversation around who had experienced racism to a wide range of white liberals who screamed about racism.
The strangeness about this screaming is that their battle cry became, “I declare that X person is racist, and if you support them you are a racist.”
So, in one fell swoop, they started to marginalize both racial minorities and dominate discussions with a false narrative that took away minority voices.
How you ask? Take me for example:
I’m an American Muslim Conservative, who happens to be both ethnically Indian (Mughal) and Arab (Saudi).
In the past year, I’ve been attacked, lambasted, and denounced; defriended and derided for not supporting Hillary. Apparently, according to them, I’m not allowed to think for myself, these days.
Black, Brown and Asian conservatives that I’m friends with have been called "Uncle Toms" and "racist" for voting Trump or "traitors" for supporting Gary Johnson.
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In essence, this new Left “racism cry” is little more than crocodile tears at the collapse of the political strength behind their ideology.
It devalues racial conversations and infantilizes people in a flawed secular idea of “racial sin.” It’s hypocritical, self-demeaning and doesn’t help us understand how our differences across races are a strength when it comes to being American.
What’s worse is that this hypocritical line of thinking censures people’s voices and ideas — where minorities who disagree with the left have become as much their enemy as the white people they believe to have cost Hillary the election in 2016.
