The DWR Quote of Day – Racism is Unacceptable – Konstantin Kisin

I think Andrew Sullivan nails it:

“There is a single standard: It is fine to malign, abuse and denigrate “oppressors” and forbidden to do so against the “oppressed.”

Freedom of speech in the Ivy League extends exclusively to the voices of the oppressed; they are also permitted to disrupt classes, deplatform or shout down controversial speakers, hurl obscenities, force members of oppressor groups — i.e. Jewish students and teachers in the latest case — into locked libraries and offices during protests, and blocked from classrooms. Jewish students have even been assaulted — at Harvard, at Columbia, at UMass Amherst, at Tulane. Assaults by woke students used to be rare, such as the 2017 mob at Middlebury that put Allison Stanger in a neck brace — but since 10/7, they’re intensifying.

If a member of an oppressor class says something edgy, it is a form of violence. If a member of an oppressed class commits actual violence, it’s speech. That’s why many Harvard students instantly supported a fundamentalist terror cult that killed, tortured, systematically raped and kidnapped Jews just for being Jews in their own country. Because they have been taught it’s the only moral position to take. They’ve diligently read their Fanon, and must be puzzled over what the problem is. Palestinians are victims of a “colonial,” “white,” “settler-state” and any violence they commit is thereby justified.

It would be wrong to see this as a function merely of old-school anti-Semitism. The new anti-Semitism is simply a subsidiary of the entire rubric of “anti-Whiteness” that is taught as the supreme principle of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.” DEI does not mean and has never meant diversity, equity and inclusion for all. It means active support for the “oppressed” against the “oppressors.” It means challenging “whiteness,” as represented by individual white people.”

So it’s not seen as ‘racist’ to be racist… as long as the target is some dominant group, you see. (Once again, the Big Red Flag everyone of us should see of post modern/progressive/woke’ hard at work is when a term now means its opposite… in this case racism is not racism when it is called anti-racism, you see, even though it is discriminating based on the immutable characteristic of race… aka ‘racism’!)

Now here’s the thing: the driver of this idiocy is third party intervention these days, which is all the rage, in that the ‘mob’ from social media scares administrators and people with institutional authority into going along with this kind of obvious and demeaning PoMo woke bullshit. To alter this censorious landscape requires more of us to recognize what’s going on and have the courage to tell the mobsters to fuck off. As Jo Heath writes,

“Indeed, one of the most frustrating things about contemporary “victimhood culture” is that so many complaints are lodged in a way that is self-evidently a form of relational aggression. This explains also why criticisms of cancel culture are likely to be ineffective at making it go away. The underlying human propensity to recruit third parties to conflict is unlikely to change, and the technological amplification of this capacity is clearly irreversible. Thus cancellation practices are not going to disappear. The only productive question is whether the way that people respond to these practices is likely to change.”

We need to demand from our civilian leaders, our friends and families and social circles, to ignore the mob, to gain a spine and stop kowtowing to those who invert our language and commit anti-liberal regressive actions and alter policies. Most of all, all of us need to stop going along to get along.

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