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| Sarah Hoyt: Race and Racism |
| 2017-03-08 |
| Some, much needed, perspective There is one thing in which liberal activists are right: everyone is racist. There is one thing in which they’re wrong: everyone is racist. Racism is not confined to white people -- and the idea that it equals prejudice plus power is an interesting (and stupid, as usual) Marxist distortion we’ll deal with later -- it’s a characteristic of being human. Why? Oh, like most other things because it was evolutionarily sound. I.e. those who had it survived and had more kids. The thing is it’s not so much "racism" as in discriminating against another race. It’s "Fear of the stranger." ...In pre-human times, with many bands and tribelets living close enough for kids to stray, the name for a kid who thought that his family or strangers were equivalent was -- at least if we go by how our closest relatives, the chimps, treat young from other bands -- "dinner." ...The fear of the stranger that goes under "racism" in our society is the fear of people like us and yet not like us. And it’s not racism in the sense that the media and liberals (who be cray) portray it. If you believe racism as they portray it, then you believe paler people are born with an instinctive fear of African features and dark skin. ...So if the fear isn’t of dark skin or African features, what is it a fear of? "People who are not like my family/tribe/village to whom I’m accustomed" is a better way to describe it. When I was a little girl, living in Portugal, I saw all kind of distinctions when I first entered elementary school. Some of my classmates were much darker than I, some were blond. Some were tall, some were short. Being sort of medium, I never had that trigger fear of the "stranger" or at least not towards appearance. It took going back after 30 years here to realize as a child I’d seen differences that weren’t there. ...It took my going back after 30 years here and getting stuck watching some sort of multi-school gymnastics competition to have the stunning realization of "Heavens, all these kids look like cousins." This is because the human brain in a highly homogeneous population will find the most minor differences to attach "stranger danger" to. ...If kids are raised together in a great variety of skin colors and hair colors, they don’t even notice them. My kids who attended an urban school, rarely remembered to tell me the race of their friends. Which really wasn’t an issue, except when the friends did the same and their parents did have an issue with friendships between races. Because again, it is fear of the stranger. Take an American kid who was raised with all skin colors, though, and introduce someone who dresses funny and the fear of the stranger activates. Which is why we’re now using (and fostering) "racism" for things that have bloody nothing to do with race. ...The justification for this is the delightful Marxist illusion that racism = prejudice + power. Have I mentioned I thought Marx -- who at any rate is not the originator of this illusion. That’s his followers trying to make his crazy cakes theory work -- and his followers are all some form of Aspergers, and unable to see things outside what they’re classified as? ...Even if racism REALLY were a thing of power and prejudice, it would apply to every "race" of human, ever. But it’s not. Racism is a fear of the stranger. And our industrial-education-entertainment complex has the ability to cut out entire groups of people, point them out as different and thereby CREATE racism against them, which then requires intervention to make them "non discriminated against." |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 It's not so much racism per se as prejudice. And everyone's prejudiced to one degree or another. For instance, if you've ever helped your twit of a brother in law get a job, just because your sister asked you to, that's basic human prejudice. Everyone's capable of doing the wrong thing for the right reason. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-03-08 19:03 |