John McWhorter suggests calling 'woke' antiracism 'neoracism' since it's what's become 'respectable' on the far left and it's every bit as identitarian as the identity politics of the right. He prefers to call them 'the Elect' since they're self-appointed arbiters and moral judges of a religion they've created based on the only framework…
John McWhorter suggests calling 'woke' antiracism 'neoracism' since it's what's become 'respectable' on the far left and it's every bit as identitarian as the identity politics of the right. He prefers to call them 'the Elect' since they're self-appointed arbiters and moral judges of a religion they've created based on the only framework most of them know, that of fundamentalist Christian religion.
This guy doesn't see how much he's part of the problem rather than the solution.
Every time I hear some American yahoo go on about how the Jordan Neely case is a 'lynching', I think to myself how privileged they are that they never need to ride public transportation. I do, and I avoid anyone who's yelling like a maniac - like the guy who was ranting at one of the stations yesterday because he had to wait an hour for a shuttle bus. I share his frustration, but I watched to see if he would get on a bus or head for the train, because I was going to hang back for a few minutes if he went for the latter.
People are regularly victimized on public transportation in many cities and I'm quite sure everyone in Neely's car was grateful someone put an end to his reign of terror. It's unfortunate that it ended the way it did, and interesting that the two black guys who helped held him down are not similarly accused of participating in the 'lynching'.
"John McWhorter suggests calling 'woke' antiracism 'neoracism' since it's what's become 'respectable' on the far left and it's every bit as identitarian as the identity politics of the right"
Yep, I've ben calling it neoracism for a while too. The name just fits so perfectly. And as T so ably demonstrates, the neoracists have no problem being just as racist as the worst of the dreaded "far right" if they encounter a person of colour with "the wrong opinion." The hypocrisy makes me sick.
Anybody calling Neely's death a "lynching" is completely ignorant of what a lynching is. And doesn't *care* what it is. It's just a handy word to justify whatever reflected victimhood they want to claim.
John McWhorter suggests calling 'woke' antiracism 'neoracism' since it's what's become 'respectable' on the far left and it's every bit as identitarian as the identity politics of the right. He prefers to call them 'the Elect' since they're self-appointed arbiters and moral judges of a religion they've created based on the only framework most of them know, that of fundamentalist Christian religion.
This guy doesn't see how much he's part of the problem rather than the solution.
Every time I hear some American yahoo go on about how the Jordan Neely case is a 'lynching', I think to myself how privileged they are that they never need to ride public transportation. I do, and I avoid anyone who's yelling like a maniac - like the guy who was ranting at one of the stations yesterday because he had to wait an hour for a shuttle bus. I share his frustration, but I watched to see if he would get on a bus or head for the train, because I was going to hang back for a few minutes if he went for the latter.
People are regularly victimized on public transportation in many cities and I'm quite sure everyone in Neely's car was grateful someone put an end to his reign of terror. It's unfortunate that it ended the way it did, and interesting that the two black guys who helped held him down are not similarly accused of participating in the 'lynching'.
"John McWhorter suggests calling 'woke' antiracism 'neoracism' since it's what's become 'respectable' on the far left and it's every bit as identitarian as the identity politics of the right"
Yep, I've ben calling it neoracism for a while too. The name just fits so perfectly. And as T so ably demonstrates, the neoracists have no problem being just as racist as the worst of the dreaded "far right" if they encounter a person of colour with "the wrong opinion." The hypocrisy makes me sick.
Anybody calling Neely's death a "lynching" is completely ignorant of what a lynching is. And doesn't *care* what it is. It's just a handy word to justify whatever reflected victimhood they want to claim.
I'm sorry you had to do that just to feel safe.