{"id":942,"date":"2024-02-14T03:20:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T03:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/racism-supply-and-demand\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T03:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T03:20:46","slug":"racism-supply-and-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/racism-supply-and-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Racism’: Supply and Demand. ‘Cultural Appropriation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because the demand exceeds the supply, new variants of 'racism' have to be invented by leftist race-hustlers. One of the latest is digital blackface.  (I wrote this in March of last year.) What might that be?  Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Digital blackface is a practice where White people co-opt online expressions of Black imagery, slang, catchphrases or culture to convey comic relief or express emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Digital blackface involves white people play-acting at being black . . . <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The complaint seems to be that whitey engages in 'cultural appropriation.' If that were a legitimate complaint, then so would the retort: but then so does blacky.  B<\/span>lack folk regularly play-act at being white when they  practice self-restraint, show respect for legitimate authority, are punctual, work hard, defer gratification, speak correct English, are self-reliant, reasonable and objective, study mathematics and science, save and invest, plan for the future, act responsibly towards themselves and others, listen to and play classical music, enjoy the fruits of high culture, and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

So one might ask, rhetorically, "By what right do blacks appropriate OUR culture? OUR white<\/em> values and virtues?"<\/span><\/p>\n

But I don't ask that question.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

What I have insisted on, again and again in these pages, is that whites do not own the above values and virtues.<\/em> They are universal and available to all.  It is just that whites are better at isolating, describing, and implementing the values that belong to all of us.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Blacks will always be on the bottom as long as they think that they are 'acting white' when they practice self-restraint, show respect for legitimate authority, are punctual, work hard, defer gratification, speak correct English, are self-reliant, reasonable and objective, study mathematics and science, save and invest, plan for the future, and so on, as per the above litany.  You are not 'acting white' if you live in accordance with the above values and virtues; you are acting humanly and optimally, and in a manner that will lead you to success and happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whitey wants you black folks to be happy! Do you know why? Two reasons, the first self-interested: happy people don't cause trouble, and we don't want trouble in the form of criminal behavior directed against us.  That happy people don't cause trouble is a generic statement. I explain what a generic statement is here<\/a>: but you will need an attention span, above-average intelligence and a modicum of philosophical savvy to follow it.  That happy people do not cause trouble is a Dennis Prager riff. I borrow it; I endorse it. (Always give credit where credit is due. It's the decent thing to do. Plagiarism is to be condemned, whether done by the president of the USA or the president of Harvard.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The second reason is that most of us genuinely want you to do well for yourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cultural appropriation? What could possibly be wrong with that? Appropriate, i. e., make your own, whatever is good from any culture. Take it on board. Develop it. Profit from it, intellectually, spiritually, and morally. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because the demand exceeds the supply, new variants of 'racism' have to be invented by leftist race-hustlers. One of the latest is digital blackface.  (I wrote this in March of last year.) What might that be?  Here: Digital blackface is a practice where White people co-opt online expressions of Black imagery, slang, catchphrases or culture … Continue reading “‘Racism’: Supply and Demand. ‘Cultural Appropriation’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-race","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","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=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}