I’m amazed that Republicans are so frequently accused of race baiting. They’ve put a black man in charge of their party, given speeches in Spanish, disavowed most of our history, and even made some noises in favor of diversity and mass immigration, particularly under Bush. Even so, everyone from Al Hunt, Maureen Dowd, and Frank Rich are ragging on the Republicans in explicitly racial terms.
Look at these old, out-of-touch, white guys. What do they know about Latinas and women and life? They’re on the wrong end of history and don’t even know it. How dare they try to preserve their existence and power? How dare they think like a tribe, even as every other group thinks tribally? How dare they even think like self respecting individuals! And, of course, in the liberal competition for who hates his privileges and insider status and people the most, white journalists try to outdo one another in their self-loathing (though this is more accurately described as exquisite hatred of their hick cousins and high school gym coaches and the frat boys that didn’t like them in college and now have made so much money in business).
Consider Al Hunt today:
What endures, however, is the spectacle of middle-aged, white Republicans instructing the first Latin female nominee about the irrelevance of race, gender and life experiences for a judge. Even Graham, one of the more enlightened lawmakers, a strong immigration advocate and a thoroughly modern Republican, didn’t get it.
This country is still 78% white or so. The shame of it!!! It is only not more so because of deliberate reengineering of our demographics that favor immigrants from the Third World–whether educated and productive or illiterate and diseased–versus our more easily assimilated cousins in Europe. But this white majority is just a shameful legacy to the unappeasable left. It’s not just slavery that’s shameful to the left; it’s that our country has an historical people that is still in the majority and that still produces wealthy, ambitious, and productive people that become senators, run companies, and continue to reproduce. You thought Obama might chill them out? No such luck. People like these Senators and Bill Gates and all the successful folks who have better test scores and safe neighborhoods and successful lives and successful children remind affirmative action babies like Sotomayor and Michelle Obama that they’re not so sharp or talented or capable, and that even if they are, most of their relatives and cousins and neighbors growing up are not. (Barack on the other hand is quite talented and sui generis.)
Pretty soon I expect to see editorials with titles like Can’t All the White People Just Die? Indeed, someone at the LA Times nearly said that the other day in discussing elderly voters.
I’m reminded of the disillusioned response of the author Bertolt Brecht to East Germany’s brutal suppression of worker strikes in 1953.
The Solution
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?
Republicans are often accused of perpetuating Nixon’s Southern Strategy and being race-obsessed, but if they were Bush and then McCain would not have been their candidate. The most dominant and common tribal, race-obsessed, and vengeful racism in America today is found among black and Hispanic activists who make no bones about their anti-white agenda. Would-be lackeys like Rich and Hunt and the like think they’ll somehow be spared the raw end of the deal if they simply shout most loudly at their coethnics. The question is whether the very individualistic and non-tribal majority will start to put two and two together as to their destiny as tomorrow’ hated minority. We can’t all get the sonderkommando gig that Al Hunt is apparently gunning for.
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I liked your post and agree with your observations. I have some friends that discuss topics like this in private. Some agree with you, but others seem to agree with Rich and Dowd.
It is really depressing because I don’t think they put much thought into it. There seems to be a correlation between one’s knowledge of history and one’s views on these issues.
The guys I know who are big history buffs and who like to discuss battles and equipment would probably find your point of view simpatico.
The one’s who think the Civil War was fought in 1923, cite the Salem Witch Trials, and believe we landed on Obama beach seem to be more susceptible to believing that Europeans and Whites are bad.
Maybe the anniversary of the moon walk might generate some pride and discussions constrasting the achievements of the multi-culti America and ‘The Right Stuff’ America.
It interests me that the first six black Congressmen and first black Senator ever to serve in federal Congress were all Republicans. It begs the question, what did they know then that is not commonly known now?
Political platforms going back into the 1800′s seem to me to show obvious reason to catalog the loyalty to the Democrat party as unfounded and untenable.
Yet, it’s the “middle aged white guys” who “don’t get it”.
I think minorities have been Stockholmed by the Democrat party, or perhaps just paid for and sustained by them.
What white people are you writing about? The one’s I see are busily birth-controlling themselves out of existence (here and in Europe)!
People like Sara Palin, whom the left hates as a symbol of the scary, church-going folks in the “Red States.”
It would be interesting to do a little research and a little math regarding the fertilty of the white Republican members of Congress. I would be surprised if it exceeded the replacement rate (in contrast to black and Hispanic Democrats, who seem to have no problem with reproduction). As for Gov. Palin, the only scary thing about her is that large numbers of people consider her presidential material!
After Obama’s election, one of my colleagues said to another, “Thank God we didn’t elect another old white guy.”
She (the other colleague) nodded in eager agreement, “That’s right, thank God we didn’t elect another old white guy!” (She’s too stupid to come up with platitudes of her own.)
He: late 50s, divorced, white guy, dresses like one of the Ramones, used to live in San Francisco (and proud of it!), a geriatric hipster, but can be amusingly sardonic on occasion.
She: late 50s, divorced, white female. Attitude of absolute entitlement, widely regarded as an utter cheapskate, the kind of person who suggests that you join her for dinner, then upon arrival of the check, “discovers” that she has forgotten her wallet.
You can see why I don’t bother to discuss politics much at work.
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