On ‘People of Color’ and ‘Systemic Racism’ — And Why I Am Sick of Hearing It

[swordfish]

Tennis has it's own Colin Kaepernick.......An "older" competitor on a severe losing streak has panic attack after her (much younger) opponent did something she didn't agree with and is calling her action racist.....

 

https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/kiara-toth-zhang-shuai-controversy-takes-racism-twist/

It appears Hungarian Open tournament organizers have found a way to make a growing controversy worse.

After video showed Kiara Toth erasing a ball mark on a questionable call and celebrating as her opponent, China’s Zhang Shuai, was forced to retire due to a panic attack, a post on the tournament’s Facebook page appeared to defend the 20-year-old Toth.

“(Toth) did not decide if the ball was good or not. It was the decision of the linesman and then the chair umpire,” the post circulating on social media read.

“The Hungarian tennis player in the first WTA match of her life may not have behaved in every situation, but she did nothing that could be described as a lack of integrity. And there is no deflection, no misunderstanding. The Chinese are manipulating the world with a manipulative video.”

Edited July 20, 2023 by swordfish

[temptation]

How about this one today…

I had to do a double take and make sure it wasn’t from the Onion or Babylon Bee…

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/19/us/mass-shootings-structural-racism/index.html

Edited July 20, 2023 by temptation

[swordfish]

In case anyone is wondering where the root belief system of BLM is at ..... SF thought they were a radical racial protest group, not a religious group......(Yes - this is a religious war)

https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/blm-chicago-under-fire-for-pro-palestine-post-featuring-paragliding-terrorist/

BLM under fire for pro-Palestinian post featuring paragliding terrorist: ‘Disgusting and disgraceful’

 

 

[Muda69]

Kendi's Critical Race Theory Is a Failed Marxist Doctrine

https://mises.org/wire/kendis-critical-race-theory-failed-marxist-doctrine

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Ibram X. Kendi, the controversial author of How to Be an Antiracist, has been revealed as not only a hustler of horrid ideas but also a poor businessman. Kendi was appointed the head and founder of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research in 2020 following the aptly named “summer of love,” which saw riots in most major cities over calls for “racial justice.”

Now, Boston University is committing mass layoffs of employees, as the Center has lost the $43 million that was donated to it at its opening. There have also been several complaints about management practices. The Center is laying off much of its staff as it switches to a new model that it hopes will keep it alive. It is another profound case of fiat academia being inefficient and unproductive, as well as peddling half-baked half-dead ideas.

Kendi is not an original thinker so much as a wannabe-philosopher who repaints bunk ideas to drum up societal conflict. Kendi’s general philosophical thesis could be summed up simply as “Everyone is racist, and that extends to all of society. History can be understood as a white supremacist culture getting better at hiding its underlying racism.”

Kendi and other critical race theorists theorize that, throughout history, so-called advancements in the welfare of racial minorities are merely a white supremacist culture’s success at better hiding its racism. One can summarize it best with a quote from the thriller The Usual Suspects: “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

The devil, for Kendi, would be “white supremacy” in culture. Every so-called advancement—from the outlawing of slavery to the end of Jim Crow laws—is simply this devil getting better at hiding itself.

This is not an original idea on Kendi’s part in any respect. One can trace these ideas back to the philosophical ancestor to critical race theory: Karl Marx. When one analyzes critical race theory, it becomes abundantly clear that it is a portrayal of Marxist conflict and power theory but with the dimensions of race applied rather than class. Rather than the bourgeoise class oppressing the proletariat, it is the white class oppressing the nonwhite classes of society.

A fundamental aspect of Marxist theory is that of the substructure, or base, and the superstructures of society. Marx posited that the fundamental relations in society are economic ones, between the working class and the exploitive capitalist class. The base creates the superstructure, which includes art, politics, religion, and other social relations that supposedly exist to reinforce the base. This is where Marx’s famed line “Religion is the opiate of the masses” comes from. Religion, as an aspect of the superstructure, exists to draw eyes away from the social relations that matter in the minds of Marxists.

The critical race theory about the “white supremacy inherent in culture” is much the same. The base for the theorists is race relations. These theorists believe that the oppressive white class has constructed society to necessarily maintain a power dynamic over the nonwhite classes. Political achievements, no matter how much they may benefit racial minorities, belong as part of the superstructure, and thus they must be some protective shell over the true social dynamics.

The Emancipation Proclamation, for example, would be seen as a means of preserving the base of society. Any and all political results short of revolution against the base are simply adaptations of the superstructure to protect the base. Kendi’s ideology ultimately becomes a revolutionary one. There cannot be a true advancement against “white supremacist culture” unless there is a true revolution, according to the critical race theorists.

Kendi posits that the solution to racism is “antiracism,” or active discrimination against the “oppressor class.” This reeks of Joseph Stalin’s extermination of the kulaks or of Maoist reeducation. Mao Zedong’s goals may be the most aligned to the goals of Kendi. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion” seminars, taught for much the same reasons as Kendi’s “antiracism,” reek of Maoist struggle sessions.

The modern kulaks of Kendi’s Marxist revolution are the “white supremacists.” According to Kendi, discrimination is needed to overthrow the base structure. The ideas of Kendi and the critical race theorists boil down to Marxist power dynamics, with a mixture of gnosticism and postmodernism. It is violent egalitarian ideology that attempts to paint history under one dynamic. It turns out that history is far more complex than that.

So, one should not be surprised at the squandering of millions of dollars by Kendi and his “antiracist” center. Marx has been repudiated by economists, philosophers, and history itself. All the critical race theorists seek to do is repaint Marxist power dynamics under a new lens. There is no sound backing to their ideas so it is no wonder they continue to fail, even in academia.

Kendi laments in a March 23 article: “The traditional construct of the intellectual has produced and reinforced bigoted ideas of group hierarchy—the most anti-intellectual constructs existing. But this framing is crumbling, leading to the crisis of the intellectual.”

Marxism can be best understood as the unproductive of society demanding a place at the top of a new hierarchy. They prey upon the productive members of society and redistribute the success of others to themselves through violent revolution. It is an ideology of envy and failure. Kendi is one such unproductive citizen, one who would have no reinforcement in any sane “marketplace of ideas.” It is no wonder at all that he has failed even in fiat academia.

Mr. Kendi is a Marxist, plain and simple.

[swordfish]

3 hours ago, Muda69 said:

Kendi's Critical Race Theory Is a Failed Marxist Doctrine

https://mises.org/wire/kendis-critical-race-theory-failed-marxist-doctrine

Mr. Kendi is a Marxist, plain and simple.

Full disclosure - SF is white, therefore (according to Mr. Kendi who utilizes racism, even though a black person CAN NOT be racist) am also racist.

What I don't understand is WHY the left continues to be successful in using the mantra that all white people are racist and all other races (considered minorities) are oppressed by those of us who are white.

[temptation]

10 hours ago, Muda69 said:

Kendi's Critical Race Theory Is a Failed Marxist Doctrine

https://mises.org/wire/kendis-critical-race-theory-failed-marxist-doctrine

Mr. Kendi is a Marxist, plain and simple.

Required “professional development” book study in some central Indy school districts…I’m not kidding.

[swordfish]

The "Electeds of Color" group?  I think everybody knows Boston is a pretty liberal town, but this one certainly takes the cake......

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12859903/Boston-Democrat-Mayor-Michelle-Wu-christmas-party.html

 

Boston's woke Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu plans no WHITES holiday party for councilors: Aide accidentally sent group email invite meant only for 'electeds of color'

• Boston Mayor Michelle Wu planned a Christmas Holiday Party exclusively for 'electeds of color'  
• An aide to the mayor accidentally emailed the exclusive party to the whole city council chamber  
• The move to host a racially segregated party sparked outrage, with one city councilor branding it 'unfortunate and divisive'  

[swordfish]

SF wonders - Didn't this guy go to college?  Reading his tweets makes me wonder.....

https://www.dailywire.com/news/super-bowl-champ-doubles-down-after-getting-blasted-for-saying-hes-sick-of-white-guys-commenting-on-football

Former Super Bowl champion Rashard Mendenhall doubled down after getting blasted for saying he’s “sick” of “white guys” commenting on football and proposed an “All-Black vs. All-White Bowl” instead of the annual Pro Bowl.

In a Monday post on X, the retired Pittsburgh Steelers running back said he’s “simply tired of being berated by people who aren’t experts in [the] game” after being called “racist” by followers for slamming “white” NFL analysts.

“We [just] pretend like I’m the only athlete tired of fans talking trash?” he added. “You [this] upset over a single tweet. What about us? Like me or not, I’m a GREAT in football. This proves my point, [you] can’t speak on ball alone.”

 

Mendenhall’s remarks followed a viral post from earlier in the day that said, “I’m sick of average white guys commenting on football. Y’all not even good at football.”

“Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with an All-Black vs. All-White bowl so these cats can stop trying to teach me who’s good at football,” he added. “I’m better than ur goat.”

[temptation]

On 12/19/2023 at 4:30 PM, swordfish said:

SF wonders - Didn't this guy go to college?  Reading his tweets makes me wonder.....

https://www.dailywire.com/news/super-bowl-champ-doubles-down-after-getting-blasted-for-saying-hes-sick-of-white-guys-commenting-on-football

Former Super Bowl champion Rashard Mendenhall doubled down after getting blasted for saying he’s “sick” of “white guys” commenting on football and proposed an “All-Black vs. All-White Bowl” instead of the annual Pro Bowl.

In a Monday post on X, the retired Pittsburgh Steelers running back said he’s “simply tired of being berated by people who aren’t experts in [the] game” after being called “racist” by followers for slamming “white” NFL analysts.

“We [just] pretend like I’m the only athlete tired of fans talking trash?” he added. “You [this] upset over a single tweet. What about us? Like me or not, I’m a GREAT in football. This proves my point, [you] can’t speak on ball alone.”

 

Mendenhall’s remarks followed a viral post from earlier in the day that said, “I’m sick of average white guys commenting on football. Y’all not even good at football.”

“Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with an All-Black vs. All-White bowl so these cats can stop trying to teach me who’s good at football,” he added. “I’m better than ur goat.”

CTE?

White guys get Mahomes, right?

[swordfish]

A "Black National Anthem"?  Didn't know it was a real thing?  OK - What happens if someone takes a knee?

https://www.bet.com/article/5zc7vt/andra-day-will-perform-the-black-national-anthem-at-super-bowl-lviii

Spirits were lifted when we learned that a brotha would be rocking the stage at the Super Bowl. And now we've gotten word that a sista is going to bring down the house. 

Last week, news dropped that Grammy-winning singer Andra Day would be performing the Black National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," during the game's pre-show, as reported by the NFL. Game day will be an evening of Black Excellence as the song will be produced and arranged by Grammy and Emmy-winning musical director and producer Adam Blackstone.

 

[Muda69]

On 1/31/2024 at 11:22 AM, swordfish said:

A "Black National Anthem"?  Didn't know it was a real thing?  OK - What happens if someone takes a knee?

 

Instant "cancellation" and virulent calls of racism.

 

[Muda69]

Black-only swim times, Black-only lounges: The rise of race segregation on Canadian universities: 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/black-only-swim-times-black-only-lounges-the-rise-of-race-segregation-on-canadian-universities/ar-BB1hzS8z

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Twice a week, the University of Waterloo athletic centre suspends its usual calendar of mid-morning swim lessons, and reserves its 25-yard pool for the exclusive use of a demographic that, in their words, does not have a good “relationship with water.”

“The aim is to get more Black Folx into a space where they haven’t always been welcomed,” reads the official description for the “Black Folx swim,” a 60-minute Black-only pool time. Users can swim lengths, practice diving or sign-up for a lesson. But they — and all the instructors — must be “Black folx.”

“This time is dedicated to building a better relationship with water for the Black community,” reads a bolded statement on the Black Folx Swim webpage.

The University of Waterloo is home to more than 30,000 international students. Many Canadian newcomers lack basic swimming skills and are at an outsized risk of drowning. This is why many lifesaving societies specifically target new Canadians for swim lessons.

But aside from a weekly trans-friendly swim and some scattered women’s only events, the Black Folx Swim is the university’s only demographic-specific swim time, and the only one targeting students of a particular ethnic heritage.

And Waterloo is not alone in this. While the idea of explicitly race-segregated spaces at Canadian universities would have been unthinkable only a few years ago, recent months have seen a wave of Black-only lounges, study spaces and events at Canadian post-secondary institutions.

The University of British Columbia recently cut the ribbon on a Black Student Space featuring showers, lockers and even a nap room.  To gain access, students must apply and affirm that they are one of the following: “Black African descent, African-American, African-Canadian, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and Afro-Indigenous.”

Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson, opened a Black Student Lounge in 2022. The space is intended as a shelter from “the harms of institutional racism.” In multiple public statements, TMU has referred to itself as a hotbed of colonialist institutional oppression, and the lounge is intended as a place where students can “heal” and “recharge” from said oppression, and “promote Black flourishing.”

The University of Toronto maintains a distinctive office of Black Student Engagement that curates a series of Black-only frosh and orientation events. While there are university-sanctioned “engagement” programs for Latin American and Southeast Asian students, these are mostly limited to mentorship appointments and workshops.

And it’s not just U of T pursuing Black-only frosh events. As noted in a feature by VICE, as recently as 2015 Canada didn’t feature a single Black-only frosh. But after Ottawa universities debuted BLK Frosh that year, the practice soon became commonplace.

Canadian university campuses have always been home to student societies or clubs whose membership is determined via national or ethnic characteristics.

McGill University, for instance, maintains more than 40 on-campus “culture clubs” targeted at student demographics ranging from Tamil to Moroccans to “North American born Asians.”

But the newly-opened “Black spaces” are different in that their explicit purpose is to demarcate Black-only areas in the interest of providing “inclusive spaces.”

When Simon Fraser University announced plans to build a Black Student Centre, administrators said the project was a direct outgrowth of their adoption of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism, a 2021 document signed by 46 Canadian universities.

The charter states that Blacks are underrepresented at Canadian universities due to a latticework of institutional anti-Black racism.

As such, it prescribes keeping close tabs on the ethnic characteristics of students and faculty at Canadian universities, and implementing a number of “deliberative processes” to ensure that a representative number of them are Black.

One of these processes is the construction of “affirming, accessible spaces … that foster Black belonging.”

At TMU, the Black Student Lounge was an outgrowth of a 2020 report known as the Anti-Black Racism Campus Climate Review.

Authors concluded that even after 10 years of concerted anti-racism efforts, the university was still awash in anti-black racism, which the report said was primarily manifest in “intuitive” ways such as “a sense of not belonging” and “lack of representation in the curriculum.”

Among its recommendations were a “dedicated Black student space on campus with the necessary resources allocated to it for Black students to feel safe.”

“Universities have historically been an unsafe place for Black students. The lounge is just one step towards dismantling this harmful reality,” Eboni Morgan, a Black student support facilitator, said upon the space’s launch .