Progressives try to backtrack on racism claims to replace them with a fabricated tale of white supremacy
OPINION | EDITORIAL
A prevailing theme amongst progressives and those in the mainstream media over the last few years is this idea that the United States is a “systemically racist country.” However, much like software, narratives need updates too. So, quickly, the narrative is changing to the idea that racism (which, one could define as the view that any race could hate another race and claim superiority) is not the problem, but that the real culprit that keeps America an anachronism, stuck in the Jim Crow South, is that the country is systemically beleaguered by white supremacy.
Why is America a white supremacist country? Because it has to be. Keeping our national sin limited to the simple catch-all of racism leaves vulnerable anyone who may have exhibited hatred of another group or contradicted standards set-forth by the anti-racist movement.
For example, if we stick to the simple belief that racism is bad — which it is — then The New York Times would have to punish Nikole Hannah Jones, author of the 1619 project, for using the same racial slur that caused the paper of record to fire science reporter Donald McNeil. If we were to stick with racism, Congress would have to condemn Ilhan Omar for her rampant anti-Semitism. That can’t happen.
Now, if the story were too slowly change, if we were to aim all our ire at the top of the intersectional pyramid, then the goalposts could shift. The only people who the new standard could cancel are white people — the ultimate oppressor. And since white people voted for Donald Trump — never mind, he lost white males in 2020 — progressives can attempt to add all other racial groups to the intersectional coalition championed by Barack Obama during his reelection year.
However, this may be tough to pull off. Not everyone is on board. And some groups have been deemed too privileged to previously count as victims. Don’t worry, efforts are being made to rectify this.
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The first thing Democrats will have to atone for is their racist attitude toward the Asian American’s success at getting admitted to selective schools. For example, last year, California waged a costly campaign to revive affirmative action in admissions to its universities. Even in deep-blue California, the effort failed — which should have served as the first indicator that the progress plan of equating everything to an intersectional review system was not a winning strategy.
This does not even begin to address New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s attacks that too many Asians are admitted to the city’s prestigious private schools. The mayor has been trying to jettison the merit-based admissions standards for years to promote “equity.”
These attacks don’t just focus on secondary school either. Asian student groups have been suing in New York and California because ivy-league universities have been using a “holistic system” to rank them lower. Often, these student groups say the system demotes them based on their personality. If this were almost any other racial group, these universities would be harangued for their bias and canceled.
But the left has no intentions of changing any of their views on this to win over Asians. Instead, they plan to strip these Americans of their individuality and group them together based on race by making them fellow travelers of the oppressed. The catch is they can only be oppressed by means of white supremacy; pay no attention to the progressive mayor behind the curtain.
To make a common cause with Asian Americans, the media has begun a paint-by-numbers campaign to attribute any crime against the people as a crime motivated by white hatred. This is why, despite crime surging in nearly every major American city over the past year, the media has focused intensely on crimes where the victim is Asian. They earn their overtime pay by then attributing the crime’s motivation to white supremacy spurred on by former President Donald Trump.
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley pointed this out in February when he named several heinous crimes perpetrated against Asians where the attacker was black. These cases did not get regarded nearly the same. Amongst the violence reported by Riley was a 61-year-old man who had his face sliced with a box cutter — requiring around 100 stitches, A 36-year-old who was sexually assaulted in a park and who later died of “blunt-force trauma to the head,” and an 84-year-old man shoved to the ground on a city street. He, too, later died of his injuries. The racial narrative for these attacks was nowhere to be found.
Facts do not matter in the narrative business, though. And, unfortunately, the larger the violence, the more complex the effort to make the violence fit the desired motivation, which brings us to the most heinous act that has occurred recently: the shooting and killing of eight Asian Americans by a crazed gunman in Georgia.
As is all too common in our society now, the narrative was put out before the bodies could be laid to rest. Newspapers, social media, and the cable pundits were quick to call this evil act one that was motivated white supremacy. When the facts started not to fit the narrative, though, the mainstream media had to double down on their efforts.
Shortly after the gunman was arrested, The New York Times and other media outlets were quick to ignore the press conference held by Jay Baker, a captain with Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department. Instead, the Times published a story called “How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian-American Women.”
The story serves as a narrative that white men being attracted to Asian women is a form of racism. Granted, the stories and quotes they use are certainly creepy, but sexism is not racism. The facts thus far point to Georgia’s murderer being influenced by sexual motive. He was arrested while he was allegedly planning to go shoot up a porn producer or distributor in Florida; he belonging to a church where chastity was the utmost virtue; he admitted that he felt guilt for using massage parlors for seemingly illicit purposes; he told a roommate that he struggled with sexual desires — even going as far as to ask him to hang on to his computer. He only used a flip phone.
His acts were heinous. But the Times and other major media outlets are using his murders to promote an epidemic of white supremacy that isn’t there. They are doing this to influence an entire race of people to accept the idea they are a group member first. They are doing this in hopes that they will forget that this same ideology is stripping them of their individual achievements in areas such as academics and join them in a crusade against a boogieman that does not exist in the scale that is perpetrated. Everyone, not just Asians, should reject this groupthink brainwashing. Everyone should look at themselves as Americans first. Because to be an American is to take risks and strive to succeed at the adventure of your choosing and not be proscribed to a class of victimhood for political purposes.
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