There are multiple reasons I have little patience with the elite liberals' supposed fight against racism. To be honest I probably have more time for the everyday racist than the sophisticated, highly educated, condescending, cynical, rich white liberal. The former at least has a measure of honesty about him. Not talking about you guys - this is just a forum and I don't know anybody. I am talking of my own life experiences and fortunately or unfortunately, I have known a wide variety of people of various ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. And among all these, the rich white man or woman (esp the liberal kind), I have tended to find the most unbearable.
So you drive around with Obama for President bumper sticker and you say this is about time we had a black man as President, but you treat that poor Nepali guy as dirt. And yet this is not how you are with the "important" people of your social circle. The recent hullabaloo in New York City among the enlightened and open minded liberals regarding the school changes - something like that would surprise you only if you are already not aware of this certain kind of liberal. I remember Haybusa here also mentioning this kind from his own experiences.
On the political level, I do not believe the left cares about the non-white people. It has been fully involved and complicit in the murder and oppression of hundreds of thousands of brown people all over the world. Something that continues to this day. But that is another topic entirely and I do not want to go there into it here...or the domestic policies which supposedly benefit non-white people as pushed by the left - that too is another topic.
This is about the actual racism. This notion that just because someone is a liberal politically that they are more open minded about race than a conservative, I find this to be utterly absurd. I have personally known the exact opposite so many times. Sure there are racist conservatives and not racist liberals. But this presumption, or notion that is pushed by the established media and what many people have come to believe - I think it is nonsense. As always, the world is not what is portrayed in the media, which have their own ax to grind - and more importantly, their own profits to consider.
Following are some examples of well known figures and politicians, but they just mirror the wider group. And the point I wish to make is most certainly not confined to humans in physical form (only) like The Mrs. Who Lost (Again) and their ilk.
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And here is Bill Clinton, describing Obama in 2010: “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”
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Remember in 2008, in one of her earlier incarnations, a once national-populist Hillary Clinton was running against Obama by galvanizing the so-called white working classes. Often, she was not shy about saying so: “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” Clinton bragged. As evidence, she cited an Associated Press story that found, in her words, “how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she concluded.
There is.
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Joe Biden’s putdown of Barack Obama in 2008 apparently was xeroxed by liberal icon and former senator Harry Reid, who likewise dismissed Obama as a veritable racial chameleon, a “light-skinned African with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
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Also, when one by act and deed demonstrates more comfortability with one’s own tribe, that de facto apartheid can be hard to turn on and off. In contrast, a white truck driver who lives with Mexican Americans, or a Mexican-American carpenter who lives in a working-class neighborhood of whites, realizes there are consequences to racialist slurs. And they are not confined to Twitter virtue-signaling or Internet mobbing but often are muscular and can be dangerous.
I have found race, class, and gender tensions far greater at Stanford University than in San Joaquin Valley rural communities, where difference is incidental and not so essential to one’s person. Perhaps the reason is that people share a lower middle-class existence, or that muscular work tends to outweigh rhetoric and abstraction. When one works and lives alongside someone of a different appearance, there is no need or time or affluence to create a façade of identity politics.
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So you drive around with Obama for President bumper sticker and you say this is about time we had a black man as President, but you treat that poor Nepali guy as dirt. And yet this is not how you are with the "important" people of your social circle. The recent hullabaloo in New York City among the enlightened and open minded liberals regarding the school changes - something like that would surprise you only if you are already not aware of this certain kind of liberal. I remember Haybusa here also mentioning this kind from his own experiences.
On the political level, I do not believe the left cares about the non-white people. It has been fully involved and complicit in the murder and oppression of hundreds of thousands of brown people all over the world. Something that continues to this day. But that is another topic entirely and I do not want to go there into it here...or the domestic policies which supposedly benefit non-white people as pushed by the left - that too is another topic.
This is about the actual racism. This notion that just because someone is a liberal politically that they are more open minded about race than a conservative, I find this to be utterly absurd. I have personally known the exact opposite so many times. Sure there are racist conservatives and not racist liberals. But this presumption, or notion that is pushed by the established media and what many people have come to believe - I think it is nonsense. As always, the world is not what is portrayed in the media, which have their own ax to grind - and more importantly, their own profits to consider.
Following are some examples of well known figures and politicians, but they just mirror the wider group. And the point I wish to make is most certainly not confined to humans in physical form (only) like The Mrs. Who Lost (Again) and their ilk.
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And here is Bill Clinton, describing Obama in 2010: “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”
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Remember in 2008, in one of her earlier incarnations, a once national-populist Hillary Clinton was running against Obama by galvanizing the so-called white working classes. Often, she was not shy about saying so: “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” Clinton bragged. As evidence, she cited an Associated Press story that found, in her words, “how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she concluded.
There is.
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Joe Biden’s putdown of Barack Obama in 2008 apparently was xeroxed by liberal icon and former senator Harry Reid, who likewise dismissed Obama as a veritable racial chameleon, a “light-skinned African with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
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Also, when one by act and deed demonstrates more comfortability with one’s own tribe, that de facto apartheid can be hard to turn on and off. In contrast, a white truck driver who lives with Mexican Americans, or a Mexican-American carpenter who lives in a working-class neighborhood of whites, realizes there are consequences to racialist slurs. And they are not confined to Twitter virtue-signaling or Internet mobbing but often are muscular and can be dangerous.
I have found race, class, and gender tensions far greater at Stanford University than in San Joaquin Valley rural communities, where difference is incidental and not so essential to one’s person. Perhaps the reason is that people share a lower middle-class existence, or that muscular work tends to outweigh rhetoric and abstraction. When one works and lives alongside someone of a different appearance, there is no need or time or affluence to create a façade of identity politics.
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