Whoa! Liberals Cracking Up! By Chris Knight (Florida)

This is from The New York Times, so we know that it must be steaming good with woke. Still, a faint glimmer of reason can be seen coming through the clouds of political correctness. Could anti-racism have gone a little bit to far? Who knows; when it all collapses we can rumble through the rubble and make a more careful assessment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/opinion/race-police-violence-liberalism.html

“But what about a case like that of Ma’Khia Bryant, a Black teenager who was shot and killed last week by Nicholas Reardon, a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio, at the instant that she was swinging a knife at a woman who had her back against a car?

Ben Crump, the Floyd family’s lawyer, accused the Columbus police in a tweet of killing “an unarmed 15yo Black girl.”

An alternative view: Maybe there wasn’t time for Officer Reardon, in an 11-second interaction, to “de-escalate” the situation, as he is now being faulted for failing to do. And maybe the balance of our sympathies should lie not with the would-be perpetrator of a violent assault but with the cop who saved a Black life — namely that of Tionna Bonner, who nearly had Bryant’s knife thrust into her.

That’s a thought that many, perhaps most, Americans share, even if they are increasingly reluctant to say it out loud. Why reluctant? Because in this era of with-us-or-against-us politics, to have misgivings about the left’s new “anti-racist” narrative is to run the risk of being denounced as a racist.

And yet those doubts and misgivings go to the heart of what used to be thought of as liberalism.

Morally and philosophically, liberalism believes in individual autonomy, which entails a concept of personal responsibility. The current model of anti-racism scoffs at this: It divides the world into racial identities, which in turn are governed by systems of privilege and powerlessness.

 The idea that white skin automatically confers “privilege” in America is a strange concept to millions of working-class whites who have endured generations of poverty while missing out on the benefits of the past 50 years of affirmative action programs.

Similarly, the idea that past discrimination or even present-day inequality justifies explicit racial preferences in government policy is an affront to liberal values, and will become only more so as the practices become more common. In Oakland the mayor backed a private initiative that was to provide $500 a month to low-income families, but not if they were white. In Vermont, the state has given people of color priority for Covid vaccines.

Ibram X. Kendi, the most important anti-racist thinker today, argues that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” Some liberals will go along with this. Many others will find themselves drifting rightward, much as a past generation of disaffected liberals did.”

And rightly so! This too, may be of interest, on this sunny Sunday.

https://www.amren.com/blog/2021/05/rape-and-white-identity/

Zuzana Dvorak, American Renaissance, May 1, 2021

This is part of our continuing series of accounts by readers of how they shed the illusions of liberalism and became race realists.

My family immigrated from Eastern Europe to Canada when I was in elementary school. In our new home, we lived in a poor area populated mostly by native whites, along with a few new arrivals from Asia and the Soviet Bloc. In the late 1990s, the demographics with an influx of Caribbean blacks.

Shortly after she joined my class, I became friends with a black girl. As a child, I didn’t fully understand the scope of interracial friendships and just wanted a friend. She and I were the only non-Asian female immigrants, and the white Canadians viewed us both as outsiders, regardless of race.

After years of friendship, her brother raped me, stealing my virginity and my innocence. When my mother found out, we went to the police. A rape kit wasn’t conducted because we didn’t report the incident right away. The police went to investigate, but the rapist’s sister (my “friend”) made up a story saying I wasn’t at her house when I’d said I was, and that I was a “white whore” who slept around a lot. The police believed her and her family and no further action was taken. Not only did she tell the police that I was a liar, she then told our entire high school the same thing. She told me she’d kill me if I kept telling people what really happened. Her family wasn’t even stereotypically “ghetto,” but middle class, nominally “Christian,” and with both parents present and accounted for.

This entire experience ruined my adolescence. It left me feeling tainted, dirty, depressed, and at times, suicidal. I was terrified of men and did not know how to interact with them. Though it did affect me for well over a decade, I realized that if I let this experience control my life, it would destroy me. I overcame it, eventually. The feelings are still here, but they don’t define who I am. Leaving the diverse area I lived in helped.

They can take your body, but they cannot take your heart, mind, or soul. You can get past it and always know it’s not your fault. Do not make the mistake of not reporting it right away if it does happen to you. Get the kit, and press charges.

There are so many white victims of interracial violence, and white women and girls in particular are targeted daily. These are the actions of invaders. There are decent non-whites who would not hurt a fly. I still recommend that white girls stay away from them. Consider the crime data available online a warning. If they can harm their own people in terrible ways, imagine what they can do to you.

Stick with your own, you are safest that way. It is not worth making a friend just because you’re lonely. To parents, don’t be naive, your children will grow to resent you for not warning them about the dangers. If you are Christian, let God forgive them. You don’t have to, just move on and keep your children safe.”