Anti-racism Is Self-Defeating
A modern logical inconsistency explained in under three minutes.
In order to fully understand this. You’ll need to understand some of the rules of woke anti-racism logic.
- Society is founded on white supremacy. This is not disputable.
- Action undertaken by white people within that society reinforces the supremacy of white people over BIPOC.
- Anti-racism is an action undertaken by white people.
- Therefore any anti-racist action is racist if a BIPOC says so.
There you have it. In all its counterintuitive glory. There is no distinction to be made between racists and anti-racists. The actions they undertake may have different intentions but will always have the same outcome. Racism.
This leads to two very predictable things
Elevating the loudest voices
BIPOC voices are elevated because they are BIPOC. They cannot be racist to white people (see above) but they can be prejudiced. In many cases that prejudice is justified and a result of horrific lived experiences. That’s what white supremacy does to people.
However, elevating only angry voices in social media echo-chambers fuels social discord and exacerbates the problem it purports to solve. Empowered BIPOC point at an increasing list of previously benign things as examples of newly discovered racism.
White people then run around panicking about being racist, demonstrating how racist they aren’t (which itself is racist). Thus society gets itself into a befuddled mess about Bridgerton, Pixar films and Denzel Washington.
It focuses on skin colour
It focuses the entire conversation on the divisive issue of skin colour rather than anywhere else. It’s the philosophical equivalent of ‘don’t think of a pink elephant’.
Racism cannot be ended this way. Instead we end up with well meaning woke folks shepherding in ‘safe spaces’ for BIPOC. Or as it used to be called… ‘racial segregation’.
Maybe it’ll come to be known as Neo-Racism? Doesn’t matter. It’s an idiotic and retrograde step for a society to take. If you can’t see why you, my friend, didn’t pay enough attention the first time.
Whatever history decides to call this era, they won’t call it progress.
What can we do about it?
Consider that not everything a BIPOC says might be the best solution to the problem being presented. Why not? Because skin colour is not related to intelligence in any way whatsoever.
Skin colour is related to lived experience but that’s a different thing. It doesn’t always follow that they’ve used insights from said lived experience to construct the best solution to the problem.
After all, the fastest way to end racism is to find a nerve agent that only kills white people. Done. That’s an expedient solution, but not the best.
You must ask people to back up and justify what they think. If you’re white and they’re BIPOC that’ll be racist. Deal with it. If you don’t do it though, it’s racist AND stupid.
You have to judge people on the quality of what they say not who they are. You can’t treat people differently based on the colour of their skin. Equality is equality. That means not elevating or denigrating anyone on their skin colour alone.
Why? Go back to the wisdom of MLK. He told us the answer 50 years ago.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
The approach of both ‘The Woke’ and the ‘Alt Right’ uses an initial judgment based on skin colour (or other immutable characteristic) as the defacto starting point.
The validity of an argument therefore becomes based on the speaker’s identity and not on what they say. You’re judging the hard outer shell of humans (their skin colour/genitals) and not the soft gooey filling (ideas and arguments).
That’s why it’s wrong and why it’s a long road to nowhere.
Struggling to accept this from a self-identified Penguin? Concerned that I might be a 60+ white guy from Texas? The sort of plaid-wearing Republican who enjoys casual racism during the week and beating my wife and children at the weekends?
Here’s an article by Steve QJ . It might just be the best article I’ve read on Medium. Plus if you’re into identity politics, you’ve got not choice but to agree with him.
But don’t do that. Agree because he’s right not because he’s black
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