Wilfred Reilly: When the Demand for Racism Exceeds the Supply

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There are a few crucial principles/ideas that define the radical left, including the episodes on the American left known as PC and "woke." Two of them are:

[i] Leftist ideology trumps facts

and

[ii] America is inherently/essentially/overwhelmingly racist.

   Only [i] makes it possible for them to continue to accept and promote [ii].

   I know many smart, reasonable, reasonably well-informed people on the left. But most of them simply cannot seriously criticize the left. Whatever their virtues, they cannot do more than issue the occasional half-hearted criticism of the left...and they absolutely cannot agree with the right in any but the most pro forma ways. Agreeing with Trump, of course, right out...

   I think any reasonable left-leaning person who honestly reflected on this incident would have a kind of epiphany. The passionate desire to find racism where there is none...and where there obviously is none...is telling to say the least...

   I tried to take these incidents seriously--just in case--but it was obvious from the get-go that they were almost certainly not lynchings. But the establishment fomented hysteria...until it became undeniable that it was all the utterest bullshit... 

   Here's the pattern, of course: they fan the flames of hysteria on the thinnest pretext...and fan and fan and fan...but it becomes more and more obvious that it's bullshit...then, eventually, they see it's not going to work (note: it's not that they stop because they recognize their claims are false...it's that they recognize their efforts aren't working...though they're not working largely because they turn out to be false)...and the project slowly fades away...

...of course they never admit error...and some of the hysteria sticks.

So, from their perspective, it was worth it.

Not optimal, of course--because they have been unsuccessful in creating another George Floyd incident and sparking "The Revolution"...

But it's a step in the right (i.e. wrong) direction...

Over and over and over the left tries the same basic ploy--interspersed with other old favorites (see e.g. the Cornell "gang rape") and the occasional new idea (e.g. let us sexually mutilate your child or he'll kill himself).

Madness.