{"id":3664,"date":"2019-08-09T13:41:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/09\/will-middle-america-go-gentle\/"},"modified":"2019-08-09T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:41:32","slug":"will-middle-america-go-gentle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/09\/will-middle-america-go-gentle\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Middle America Go Gentle . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

. . . into that good night<\/a>? Patrick Buchanan:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Writes The New York Times<\/em>\u2018 Charles Blow in a column that uses \u201cracist\u201d or \u201cracism\u201d more than 30 times: Americans who do not concede that Trump is a racist\u2014are themselves racists: \u201cMake no mistake. Denying racism or refusing to call it out is also racist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But what is racism?<\/span><\/p>\n

Is it not a manifest dislike or hatred of people of color because of their color? Trump was not denouncing the ethnicity or race of Ilhan Omar in his rally speech. He was reciting and denouncing what Omar said, just as Nancy Pelosi was denouncing what Omar and the Squad were saying and doing when she mocked their posturing and green agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly Americans disagree on what racism is.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Buchanan's definition is on the right track except that he conflates race with skin color, which is but a superficial phenotypical indicator of race.  He also uses the silly phrase 'people of color.' But let that pass. He's a journalist; what do you expect?  Journalists, lemming-like, tend to repeat what they hear others saying.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 'definition' of Omar and the Squad ought to be called a 'daffy-nition.'  You would have to be daft to accept it. To wit:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A racist is a person who criticizes anything any person of color says or does.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By this definition, Nancy Pelosi is a racist.  Now Madame Speaker is many things, few of them good; a racist, however, she is not.  If Pelosi is a racist, then we are all racists, and the word has been rendered useless.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note also that the Squad definition implies that 'persons of color' can be racists. If Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortz criticize each other's ideas, then both become racists, despite being 'persons of color'!<\/span><\/p>\n

But this contradicts a key tenet of race-baiters, namely, that 'no person of color' can be racist. Such are the wages of stupidity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . . into that good night? Patrick Buchanan: Writes The New York Times\u2018 Charles Blow in a column that uses \u201cracist\u201d or \u201cracism\u201d more than 30 times: Americans who do not concede that Trump is a racist\u2014are themselves racists: \u201cMake no mistake. Denying racism or refusing to call it out is also racist.\u201d But … Continue reading “Will Middle America Go Gentle . . .”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}