If there is one thing your humble author tries to do hereon is to look beyond the mere superficial and examine the underlying fundamentals. By focusing in on jus what’s going on at the surface and how it immediately affects a sense of normalcy, you ignore the root cause and at best allow the actual problem to metathesize. In other words, “Never attempt to cure what you don’t understand!” as James Lindsay noted and further opines upon the subject, which is quoted in full full below due to the limitations of Twitter/X embeds.
Seems like another good day for a rant about why it’s stupid and counterproductive to frame CRT and DEI as “anti-white racism” except if you intend to stop it with the Civil Rights Act and 14th Amendment, which none of them do.
Like, you noticed they’re bad to white people, and it’s racist, and it’s unjust, and it’s purposed. Great job, kid. Everyone can see that. Do you want a cookie? Ask some real questions about it:
Why are they doing it, how are they doing it, and what’s its purpose?
Then we can get somewhere!
If you’re going to point out that there’s (Woke) anti-whiteness happening, you have to point out WHY it’s happening, and it’s not for the sake of anti-whiteness.
It’s for some mysterious purposes they call “Social Justice” and “equity,” and these are clues. We know they don’t mean what they sound like they mean, and we can figure out what they refer to. AND, that matters. A lot. Like, it’s the whole story.
Otherwise, it’s like saying someone is sick without acknowledging why they’re sick. You’ll never get the right cure. Virus? Parasite? Bacteria? Cancer? Snakebite? Ingested poison? Organ damage or failure? Injury? Environmental toxin? Allergy?
You better get it right if you’re going to attempt a remedy, and if you don’t, you might kill the patient thinking you’re attempting a cure.
Never attempt to cure what you don’t understand!
Those clues lead us to a Soviet program (called korenizatsiya). CRT and DEI are “anti-white” because they are following that playbook. The purpose of that playbook is “to resist great-power chauvinism,” which is a Communist strategy for grabbing and consolidating power through ethnic minorities.
CRT and DEI aren’t anti-white to be anti-white, even if some of the grifters and jerks who take them up are just being anti-white because they can be, because it’s profitable to be, or because they’re actually anti-white racists. The programs are designed to steal and consolidate power through manipulating ethnic strife generated from “oppressed” minorities who are trained to understand their circumstances through Marxist doctrine and to weaponize it against the dominant “great power.”
In Soviet Russia it was Resist Great Russian Chauvinism. In Maoist China it was Criticize Han Chauvinism. In Woke Western nations it’s Abolish White Supremacy Culture. It’s the same program. (In Feminism it’s Abolish Patriarchy; and in Queer Theory it’s Disrupt Cisheteronormativity; and anywhere there’s enough indigenous people its Decolonization.)
CRT and DEI aren’t “anti-white” to be anti-white, no matter what individuals participating in the programs have for motivations. It is anti-white FOR A PURPOSE, and when you focus on it being “anti-white,” you lose the diagnosis completely and cannot effect a cure.
It’s like mistaking the waves for the ocean because they’re what hits the shore. By far most of the water isn’t on the surface, and the cause of the waves isn’t the water (it’s the wind, usually). Philosophically, this means you’re playing in the phenomenology, which they want you to be doing, instead of addressing the actual political program.
So, get it wrong and you’ll be off fighting racism (while tying your hands behind your backs by being angry about the Civil Rights Act instead of reclaiming it) which is like treating allergies with antibiotics or cancer with oregano oil and native honey.
That’s why it matters that you don’t fall into the trap of playing on the surface level (it’s anti-white racism) and actually bother to understand that the anti-white racism is a superficial phenomenon that’s used as a weapon and an engine for a deeper political program that’s actually the real problem.
Meanwhile, if you focus on the superficial “anti-white racism” part, your sense of righteous indignation is likely to flare up and lead you to believe that the best way to fight it is through great-power racial pride. All that does is fuels the engine causing the whole problem because that engine is a Marxist conflict theory of race, that by definition requires people to identify themselves in racial classes that are separated and intrinsically in conflict with one another.
Don’t be a fool. Understand what you’re actually dealing with, and don’t fall for the agitprop of charlatans and dilettantes.
/end rant
More exploration wokeness and its (pseudo-)intellectual underpinnings on Mr. Lindsay’s New Discourse.
