PROMOTING RACISM DOESN'T CURE RACISM

As pointed out a couple of days ago in an article by Campus Reform, the University of Minnesota-Duluth has been promoting a disgusting campaign, designed mostly to raise money and raise its profile, based on the idea that "white" people should be denounced as "racist" simply because of the color of their skin.  From the front page:

Racism is an issue that we don't like talking about. The Un-Fair Campaign was developed to look at racism and to encourage a community dialogue about the causes and solutions.

Racism is a complex social issue and depending upon what you see as the causes of racism you have ideas about the solutions.

We invite you to spend time on this website and to ask yourself how you may be part of the problem as well as part of the solution.

See it.  Know it. Stop it.

"White privilege" is the Left's preferred term for what used to be called "white guilt."  The latter term is now out of favor among Left-wing activists because it reminds people that what we're talking about here is nothing more than a guilt trip.  What does one do when he or she wants something from somebody who, for whatever reason, is reluctant to give it?  Take that person on a little guilt trip.  So, from the perspective of a Left-wing race-baiting activist what better way to leverage money and power than to inflict the ultimate guilt trip: "How dare you reduce tax-payer funding for my vanity social justice project! What's fiscal responsibility and oversight compared to 400 years of slavery?  Yeah, that's what I thought!"

But of course a guilt trip has negative connotations (for obvious reasons).  So the experts have constructed the idea of "white privilege." It is a clever vehicle for the promotion of racial bias against "white" people.  It is based on the idea that we live in a "white supremacist" society, which means that merely being born "white" confers on "white" people a level of "unearned privilege" that can never be forgiven and which empowers a "person of color" to do two things: 1) blame somebody else or some other group for his or her own failures and 2) justify his or her own biases. 

The only "remedy," of course, is for a "white" person to confess his or her original sin (of "whiteness") and beg for mercy.  If the guilty "white" person in question does a really, really good job of groveling and apologizing and embracing correct thought while learning to speak only when spoken to, then he or she can become an "ally."  (White people on a spiritual path who seek to make tangible the idea of “we are all one” by looking at "whiteness" and privilege ... without burdening people of color in the learning process.)

A "person of color" is thus granted the questionable privilege of exerting a false moral superiority by either granting or withholding forgiveness. It also empowers the "person of color" to commit acts of discrimination, including physical violence, without being accused of racism.  In Leftist dogma, it's impossible for a "person of color" to commit a hate crime against a "white" person.  (Whenever that "truth" is compromised by reality it is the duty of the Establishment Media to suppress the news, distort reality and above all protect the Narrative.)  Likewise, it's impossible for a "white" person to commit so much as a thoughtcrime (such as voting for a Republican) against a "person of color" without it being automatically blamed on "racism" (such as voting for a Mitt Romney rather than Barack Obama).

The "white" petitioner for mercy may be given an atonement task to perform, such as denouncing other "white" people, including family and friends.  Another form of atonement is the bizarre hostage video like the one below in which victims of Peggy McIntosh Syndrome repeat the "truths" they've been taught while exhibiting the dehumanizing anti-"white" graffiti on their offensive "white" faces.




And then, of course, there are the Left-wing "white" academic types who insist on having their cake and eating it too.  They take full advantage of what their fellow Leftists would call "white privilege" while also hedging their bets by falsely claiming minority status, in this case cynically calling themselves "Native Americans," without a shred of credible proof of it.

Ward Churchill (fake Indian name: Talking Bull)

Elizabeth Warren (fake Indian name: Faux-cahontas)

Of course this year everybody is familiar with Elizabeth Warren and her humiliating exposure as an affirmative-action fraud.  But not everybody is familiar with Ward Churchill.  He's the disgraced former "ethnic studies" professor at the University of Colorado who apparently saw the movie Little Big Man once too often and decided to tell people and potential employers that he was an "Indian."  For Left-wing types, having "empathy" for minorities is just as good as actually being a member of a minority, so hell, why not? You want to do something about "un-fairness?"  Perhaps we need to see Ward Churchill and Elizabeth Warren starring in their own hostage videos.  Just a thought...