Talk show hosts speak about low information voters. Now they mention "No information" voters. Then there are the omniscient voters. This essay is from one of those. Omniscient people often prefer propaganda to the search for truth. Henry Louis Mencken, said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
Some say it was con-man Joseph Bessimer; others say it was uttered by David Hannum, in reference to P.T. Barnum's part in the Cardiff Giant hoax. Another source credits Michael Cassius McDonald for the aphorism. "Don't worry [. . .] there's a sucker born every minute."
Few Americans have any idea that propaganda is being published. The below essay is propaganda. The writer promotes collectivism over individual rights. The argument is anti American. He enjoys, no less, demands the individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, even as he curses them. He demands to be loved, not just respected.
He laments slavery, but ignores the 500,000 or more white Americans who died to enable him to enjoy individual rights. He condemns friend and foe alike accusing all white people as racist.
He does not define what he means by racist. Under his standard he is also a racist. But also by his argument, Jewish people cannot be racist because they suffered genocide under Nazi Germany. Also persons with disabilities were slaughtered by the same government. Gypsies too. Christian Scientists were killed so they cannot be racists. Southern Italians were discriminated against by northern Italians, and Americans. Italians cannot be racist under his standard. Nor can Germans and Japanese who were discriminated against by Americans. His essay makes no sense unless you accept paranoia for reason.
Civil War Dead
But there is another argument which I often use to show that people like this man who say black people, cannot be racists are themselves racists. Racism is a form of discrimination. Usually unlawful bias is the problem. It is not a praiseworthy practice. If white people are racist they are flawed. But if black people cannot be racist they lack the flaw and they are better than, superior to, white people. That means he believes that black people are superior to white people. Isn't that an example of collective bias making one group better than another?
[From article]
Upon seeing these figures I immediately wondered about what exactly white Americans perceive racism to be, and how the supposed racism they receive has become equal to that of African Americans and other minority groups.
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the closest incidents of an “attack” have been occasional protests that have turned violent and resulted in the destruction of property. There has never been a concerted effort to destroy white-owned establishments in the movement, and the random destruction of property is defined as criminality and not racism.
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It has not been about pitting the races against one another and saying that one race is superior to the other.
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These two perspectives are quite common throughout the world
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the racist structures
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Misinterpreting this collective social progress as anything else
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/08/racism-vs-whites-you-re-kidding-me.html
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Racism Vs. Whites? You’re Kidding Me
Majorities of whites think anti-white discrimination is as bad as the anti-black kind. Honestly, are they out of their minds?
Barrett Holmes Pitner
Racism Vs. Whites? You’re Kidding Me
Majorities of whites think anti-white discrimination is as bad as the anti-black kind. Honestly, are they out of their minds?
Barrett Holmes Pitner
