Why Is Identity Politics Evil?
I suppose we can’t hold Dowd to such high standards of integrity. After all, she is the author of the following sentences:
When the first African-American president was elected, his supporters expected dramatic changes. But Obama feared that he was such a huge change for the country to digest, it was better if other things remained status quo.
I have searched in vain for any trace of humor or irony in that passage. Since she is serious and thus believes herself to be speaking the truth, Dowd has the responsibility to tell us how she knows the inner thoughts of our president. This is especially important since, if Dowd’s narrative is true, it would mean the president deliberately did not do all he could to ameliorate unemployment and fiscal disaster: the idiotic white masses had simply expended all their brain power on coping with the election of a black president; their exertions left them emotionally incapable of dealing with any more “dramatic changes.” Anyone who can write that and still have the will to resist retiring out of pure shame must also be capable of the following:
The president’s record-high rate of deporting illegal immigrants infuriated Latinos. Now, on issues from loosening immigration laws to taxing the rich to gay rights to climate change to legalizing pot, the country has leapt ahead, pulling the sometimes listless and ruminating president by the hand, urging him to hurry up.
More women voted than men. Five women were newly elected to the Senate, and the number of women in the House will increase by at least three. New Hampshire will be the first state to send an all-female delegation to Congress. Live Pink or Dye.
Reading Dowd’s column, it is clear that she has a fairly impressive vocabulary. The only word that’s missing is “American,” unless it’s appended to a racial modifier or a special-interest group. Therein lies the problem, though Dowd and her audience of “gender studies” poseurs are unaware of it: One of the contradictions of anti-white identity politics is, ironically, its unintended encouragement of white identity politics. I quote the British columnist Nick Cohen, writing here of racial tribalism in the UK: “If polite society stuffs British citizens into hermetically sealed boxes and labels them as the blacks or the Muslims, it is not so strange that people should decide to be the whites and vote accordingly.”
Since Dowd obviously believes it is rational and desirable for women, blacks, “Hispanics,” gays, and all other assorted subalterns to band together, she must at least expect the enemy to do the same. Identity politics, you see, is a self-fulfilling prophecy: fearing some monolithic conspiracy against them, demagogues urge all sorts of groups to merge and fight the power. The alleged oppressors, tired of being slandered, gravitate toward political candidates who eschew the opinions of the identicrats. The identicrats see this as further evidence of the conspiracy against them. The full circle of idiocy is complete.
Liberals are morons. Dowd and Sullivan are perfect examples. There’s no cure for stupidity. Dowd’s angry because, even a dope like her knows in her heart of hearts that liberalism is an empty cup. But Dowd has no choice but to participate. Without rabid liberalism, history’s failures actually ARE failures.
The irony and Catch-22 is that the more liberals marginalize the people who in fact are the true font of the culture that created equality based on law and order rather than what you can actually do, the more they compromise their own future existence.
Equality under the Constitution is one thing – going beyond that, overreaching, and turning it into some blithe analogue of communism another. Kill the goose that laid the golden egg, and you’re un-discovering America.
Oh, all the buildings and nice stuff will still be there, and teeming populations as well, but the stuff that puts winners in first place will be severely written down eventually. In a few years, thanks to liberals, America will have the first shanty towns since the old gold rush days. Except we’ll be heading in the other direction; to the Age of Copper.
On the way back we might pass through moose heads and Chesterfields and hell, black and white TV. I wonder who people like Dowd and Sullivan will turn to when others decide they’re not as equal as they thought they were. That’ll be the real “death spiral.” I’m not worried about alienating women, but they sure should be worried about alienating me. Think about what really backs up every 911 call made in this country and Dowd’s own words. In the real world, I back up my words myself – Dowd uses me for this function as well.
Cuz cream rises to the top, and outnumbered is as outnumbered does. The Battle of Otumba says so, so does the East India Company. Right now Cortes is building cannon for the Aztecs and all is illusion. What if he stopped? Innovation does in fact come from some where, political correctness or no. Liberals don’t think of the long haul, in terms of decades and have misread history. That’s why they’re a suicide cult.
Imagine if Dowd and Sullivan ruled Israel. They’d allow themselves to be enslaved in a matter of weeks. Calm would return – and the Age of Copper and donkeys.
Thou whislest not Dixie, Fail Burton (if I can say something so racially charged as “Dixie”). I had to explain repeatedly to my kids (and my husband, for that matter) that one must always uphold principle equally for all people, because if one group can be scapegoated today, any other group can, and probably will, be scapegoated tomorrow. Why can’t our supposed “educational elite,” our smartest overachievers, recognize that? It’s as if, deep inside, they really don’t think anything fundamental to their lives – or hell, anything superficial – will ever really change, no matter how much we tinker with the circumstances. The farms and oilfields will always produce in abundance, the cities will always be supplied efficiently and inexpensively, America will always be Number One so we can afford to run it down so as to look morally superior,there will always be plenty of money and plenty to buy with it no matter how it’s managed, and the average man will always know his place. Forgive me for screaming, but HAVE THESE FOOLS NEVER LEARNED A WEEK’S WORTH OF HISTORY IN THEIR ENTIRE LIVES??!!
It’s Bush’s fault.
False.
Ignorance can be cured. Stupidity, no. California first elected its still sitting Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer decades ago.
What? And give up their cherished myths for reality? And do real work? The Establishment Media’s layers of editors and fact checkers were sleeping again. And Maureen Dowd outed herself (again!) as a self-hating racist who lazily phones it in.
I wouldn’t be too fast with the “stupid” label, Micha. You display your own ignorance AND stupidity by confusing “senate” with “congressional”. California sent the first all-female SENATE delegation with Boxer and Feinstein, but New Hampshire sent the first all-female SENATE AND HOUSE delegation with Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D) and Kelly Ayotte (R), and Reps. Ann Kuster McLane (??) (D) and Carol Shea-Porter.
” HAVE THESE FOOLS NEVER LEARNED A WEEK’S WORTH OF HISTORY IN THEIR ENTIRE LIVES??!!”
Yes, they have. They are not stupid. They have read history, and see they are in the real scheme of things, irrelevant.
They are not not makers, they are takers.
Liberal arts professors, talking heads, celebrities. Media people.
Scribblers and babblers, all afluff and breathless about how their minds are at the center of it all, pondering the KEY ISSUES of the day in abstract magnificence, when its really the backs, and brains of Industry and Business that that float the boat.
They know this. They arent stupid, just weak, and useless.
So they flood the mainstream of discorse with lies about their relevance, because without those lies, they are nothing…..
Court Jesters. Jugglers. Puppet Shows and Magic Tricks to amuse the Vitaly Productive, in their leisure moments before returning to the business of supporting a civilization.
They know that is their true place in the world.
And it embarrases them so, they must create an alterative reality with bright words and moving pictures, to conceal their shame.
In response to your (rhetorical, I’m sure) question, the answer is an unequivocal “NO!”. Considering how poorly our public school systems are doing in the most densely (Democrat) populated areas, it is easy to understand why they are so ignorant of what any person who has received a modicum of education can fully understand. Simply checking the results of the past 40+ years of International scholar’s competitions one can conclude we have the majority of the most poorly/uneducated “civilized” pupils in the world.
Can anyone truly wonder why Obama was elected to a second term?
As for Dowd, one only need observe her as she speaks to know where the word “dowdy” derived from. And that most specifically includes her intellect.
Check the map of how US counties voted, and you see that Romney won the country, except for a small number of counties where Democrats could perform miracles of voter fraud.
When the election is a fraud, that is because the winning candidate is a fraud. Fraudulent government has no legitimacy, and the positions of fraudulent parties are fraudulent.
What did we do wrong? We were honest, in a den of thieves. Local efforts must be made to correct dishonest vote counting, or else who votes and what they vote will not matter, only the counter of votes will matter.
Check the vote count antics that are denying a victory to Alan West. The same will be seen to have occured in every swing state.
You raise an interesting point. Why do Leftists seem to have zero regard for expertise? O’bwana has not a thought that maybe doctors might know as much as, or more than, restructuring the health-care system as he does. Ditto: bankers, drug companies, farmers, classroom teachers, etc. I wonder if there isn’t a connection here with the observable fact that most Leftists are pencil-neck geeks who couldn’t switch out a light fixture or time a mechanical V-8 engine if you put a gun to their head (I’d like to put this to actual tests). It seems to me that a master craftsman or an experimental scientist both can appreciate expertise in others because they understand it in their own endeavors. Leftists, knowing nothing much about any real-life invention, production, or maintenance, simply don’t value knowledge and experience. It’s easy to imagine that you can do anything if you have no clue how anything as actually done.
I don’t want to be called “white”. I discarded that way of thinking years ago only to find it shoved back in my face by the left (which I used to embrace). I am going to teach my children that we are humans.
In Maureen Dowd’s world, women like me are non existent. I am far from being an old country club attending man. To me, she is old and elitist. I find her nothing but annoying and dated.
Identity politics is another name for racial/class warfare, under the rules for radicals playbook.
And the divide and conquer strategy renders radical revolutionaries the winners. And the fact that the left understands the achilles heel of white America – minority ‘rights’ and PC doctrine – is what allows for them to hijack all spheres of public debate.
But if the right ever wants to gain back any semblance of traditional America, they gotta stop bringing a knife to gunfight – ala the Radical-in-Chief’s own words too!
And mental bullying, via identity politics too, is the same world over – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/01/leftist-dogma-the-same-world-over-freedom-loving-people-beware-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki-32-2/
Time to turn the tables and become as brutal as they are. It is the only way to take back America.
And this blogger has no problem being called a white, Jewish, female, Conservative & Zionist to boot. She couldn’t care less. She just wants to prevail.
The entire educational system and mass media are geared toward identity politics, and have been since the 1960s. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the red takeover was the fusing of populism and Leninism, that I tracked here, for it was in graduate school in history and before that, at Pacifica Radio, that I witnessed the collapse of “class” into “race” and the rise of separatist women’s studies or ethnic studies departments. I wrote about that transition here: http://clarespark.com/2011/03/26/race-class-and-gender/. We can blame liberal elites for this development, which had been in process since the early decades of the 20th century. The civil rights movement only added impetus to a pre-existent racialist discourse put out by progressives.
How old are your kids? Are you going to teach them that dogs are dogs; that there’s no difference between a Cocker Spaniel and a pit-bull (hey, both are Canis lupus familiaris)? In college biology class, are they going to tell the prof that science can’t identify, with certainty, the ‘race’ of any human by scanning a DNA swab? Is the information encoded on the DNA meaningless — having no function? People who claim to believe that there is no such thing as race can beleive what they want. But none of them better criticize Creationists, as evolution is a theory based on geological and paleontological science, while race is simply there right in front of your eyes. Who’s denying realty more egregeously?
Advances in medical science prove more and more that there ARE differences between the races that are far “deeper than skin color.” Some races are far more susceptible to certain diseases and conditions than others. Some medications work far better for some races than others. In fact, the more we learn, the more we realize how very, VERY different the races truly are!
Ah, but we’re not allowed to say that out loud, are we? Because the minute we AS A CULTURE concede that racial differences ROUTINELY occur in medicine, then we’d actually have to have a REALISTIC, FACT-BASED debate about that whole pesky IQ thing, and how maybe it’s not such a good idea to keep throwing good money after bad trying to achieve MINISCULE improvements in low achievers at the cost of providing real support to those students who actually have the INTELLECTUAL ABILITY to change this word for the better.
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Pick up the new book, White Girl Bleed Alot, and open your eyes.
http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/
See? This is the thinking that led me to say at a so-called diversity seminar, when surrounded by a bunch of black teachers, that sometimes I hate being white. They all laughed at me sort of maliciously. But what I said was true. I was not raised to think of myself as “white.” I was raised to think of myself as me. The idea that everything I have is solely because I am “white” is completely foreign and insulting to me especially as I grew up poor, barely lower middle class, and I definitely lived below the poverty line for a good few years just after my husband and I married. So-called “white” privilege doesn’t extend to the poor.
But the more I hear the rhetoric coming out the “other” tribes, the more I feel like I have to band together with others like me for safety. It’s disgusting because I just want to be me, not “white” or a “woman” or any other tribe that currently exists – just me.
I feel exactly the same way. I just want to go back to being a human being. I feel like I am being suffocated by tribalism.
On top of that, I feel like my accomplishments are worthless. Forget the fact that I once lived in a run down trailer and was a first generation college student. I am pretty much at the point where I have given up.
I guess my version of going Galt is just not giving a fuck anymore. My spirit has been broken and my soul crushed. The Maureen Dowds of the world can take their elite snobbery and shove it. Perhaps she never had to work hard to earn her way in life, but she has no right to boil my life down to “country club white privilege”. It pisses me off so much that it makes me cry.
Welcome to the DGaF club friend. I have no pity or respect for anyone even a foot over the left liberal yard line and let them know it anytime the opportunity presents itself. They like to bitch but they now hold all the levers of power from the media to the schools and we conservatives hold Zero so F them.Let them hold this mess they made up by their shoulders,Im DONE and so should all of you be.
Remember the phrase “You bought it, it own it.”
Throw it at your favorite liberal friends everytime they bitch about higher prices, higher taxes, crappy services, etc. No need to debate the minutia. Don’t even give em the chance to spin how it’s the Republican’s fault. Just keep repeating…
You could follow up with how the country suffered through four years of crap, and they decided that they wanted four more years of the same, if you really want to nail it home.
I think it would make a good bumper sticker. Be sure to color it blue, and put the “O with red and white stripes” Obama logo on it.
If you’re letting them piss you off then you’re doing the “don’t give a f*ck” part wrong. Why should you let this vile gang of racists get to you? That’s what they thrive on. They probably come here just to read threads like this and touch themselves. Don’t give them that satisfaction.
Instead of crying about their ignorance and evil, next time tell them about your plans to reduce your tax liability this year. Tell them about how you plan to donate a dollar to a conservative group for every extra dollar Obamacare makes you pay. If you’re a white male, tell them about the non-white girls you’ve dated. Tell them you’re glad Obama won because you think it’s funny to watch him rage impotently against the Republican house. When they take an opportunity to remind you that Obamacare is now the Law, tell them that civil disobediance to an evil law is a moral imperative. Then cite Rosa Parks or Ghandi as an example, that’ll really make them rage. If you’re a business owner, tell them about how Obama’s policies won’t cost you a dime, because for every bit taxes or regulatory costs rise you’ll lay off employees, raise prices, or cut wages and benefits.
In short make them view you as the devil incarnate, the culmination of all their ignorant and self-righteous stereotypes, then openly mock them and their ideas and laugh at the idea that they think they’re hurting you.
I’m not going to cry. Men don’t do that sort of thing, really.
I am going to serenely smile though.
Hey, if I’m not needed, I’m not needed.
It’s actually kind of cool to feel no pressure.
I even can feel some pity for MoDo. If only Michael Douglas made a few phone calls or sent some flowers or wrote her a poem or something she might not have these issues.
“You bought it, you own it.”
Bad proofreading on my part.
Well said, and I totally agree.
Count another one in, aharris. Politically, I am an American. When a member of my tribe ran for Vice President, it meant nothing that we had beliefs, practices, ethnicity, and even personal acquaintances in common – I voted for the other guys because I shared their political goals and principles. Yeah, I’m “white.” And upon closer scrutiny, I’m in a minority of a minority of a minority; there are no more than half a million people in my demographic. All this time I’ve counted on the American founding principles to protect my interests, but now it seems the power is in the hands of people to whom those principles are at best quaint, at worst evil. I wonder what my grandkids are going to be able to count on, this side of a merciful Providence.
g-d, I miss Andrew Breitbart.
Lefty elites are using “race” as a category when they actually mean “class”, as in one’s social standing. The likes of Maureen Dowd are perfectly happy to trumpet the equality and supposed ascendancy of minorities (which almost always means African-Americans … Hispanics and Asians notwithstanding), but let them have to live next door to, or daily deal with, that subset of profoundly ignorant and/or criminal element from the ghetto, and you will hear hypocritical hemming and hawing as you’ve never heard it. This applies to upper middle class and wealthy African-Americans as well, because you for damn sure don’t see them living in project housing.
Imagine the confusion of Allen West who is discovering that he is white after all, as his election is stolen by black democrats in Florida.
Looking at it from my side of the pond, I wonder when some are ever going to grow up. A young Black African female friend once said to me, “When you come to think about it, we’re ALL coloured people”.
Dear Anonymous,
I hear you, really I do, but, please don’t give up. Ordinary, hard-working people are the heart of this country. Many of us see that, and we need to start saying it, too.
If MoDo doesn’t see it, maybe it’s because she has her head stuck to far up where the sun don’t shine.
Please hang in there.
Keith
So-called “identity politics” was an integral component of the self-proclaimed “progressive” strategy of dividing and conquering American. They’ve finally succeeded in eviscerating our original constitutional republic from within and reducing the United States to a “progressive” oligarchy. Like all collectivist endeavors, it will inevitably fail, more likely sooner than later.
They may have some second thoughts about the wisdom of cooking up and fueling and fanning the flames of ethnic and racial discord when the looters and cannibals corner them. “Wait!” they’ll cry. “We’re progressives, not Republicans! We may be white on the outside, but we’ve always been red through and through!”
If the looters trouble themselves to reply, I suspect it will be something along the lines of, “Shut up!” followed by one racial or ethnic slur or a dozen others and skull-crushing blows. If the cannibals take time to say anything, it will probably be, “Shut up! We’re starving to death,” or words to that effect, followed by skull-crushing blows, bleeding and gutting, hasty butchering, cooking over whatever combustible stuff can be gathered and set afire quickly, and…
“If the looters trouble themselves to reply, I suspect it will be something along the lines of, ‘Shut up!’…”
Nah, it’d probably be something more along the lines of “Say, that’s a pretty nice coat you got there, Whitey.”
And ironically it will be all those self righteous white progressives who are the first and hardest hit when the EBT cards stop working because they never bothered to arm themselves or learn to shoot. The looters will steer clear of the really conservative areas because they’ll just make targets, those effete progressives on the other hand will finally get to fulfill their fantasy of being the victim.
From the same people who championed Black Majority rule in South Africa against the evil white apartheid. How’s that one drop rule working for them now that they’ve adopted it for ‘diversity’ standards?
Rise up as one Pink People! Pink Power!
Women like Maureene Dowd, those in “group think” are the ones that give women a bad name. So what are we to do for the liberals if we are white, run out and form an interracial union to produce mixed offspring to make them happy. That seems to be what they are shoving down our and our children’s throats every time they can on television.
In another two generations — maybe even only one! — there’ll be nobody left being born EXCEPT beige babies! Thank God I won’t live to see it.
The average Obama voter won’t be able to afford the costs that are going to be imposed on them because of Obama, whether it be through higher taxes, higher gas prices, or other means. What? They are only going to tax the rich you say? Ha! The Dems consider anyone who works as “rich.” Soon it will be, “it’s not fair that you get to take your kids to Disney World.” I keep telling all my Obama-voting chums that when they run out of rich people to tax, there will be higher taxes on everyday things like gas that will hit us all. And when that isn’t enough money, get ready for the VAT, which will be added right on the top of your state sales tax. What’s the big deal they will say? A bottle of Pepsi will only cost you another 3 or 4 cents, and then it will be 10 cents, etc. The typical Obama voter has no idea what they voted for. I, on the other hand, will just work harder, and me, my wife, and kids will still be going to Disney World, South Padre Island, and wherever I feel like it in 2013. We’ll see how far the welfare check extends for the Obama voters.
“If polite society stuffs British citizens into hermetically sealed boxes and labels them as the blacks or the Muslims, it is not so strange that people should decide to be the whites and vote accordingly.”
I’ve found myself thinking this way more and more lately. If we are truly going to be living in a tribalist society, I’m thinking I better stick with my tribe.
–i get Margaret Doud mixed up with Mariannahuf Ingtonpost
I’m starting to think that men should just go galt. Let the ladies fill out the police, firemen, soldiers and every other manly profession and get on with it. The country will to be happy until men are purged anyway.
Possibly this is one answer: Starve the Beast. Slim down. Pay as little as possible. Reduce. They simply don’t have the manpower to get even a fraction of us.
Let’s see what they say when the producers curtail their producing. Start an LLC, or an S Corp and get an inventive accountant. Emulate General Electric, only in micro.
Cheers
Interesting. We’ve had the same impulse. We cancelled cable two years ago, but there is still more to be done. We are downsizing the cell phone bill, cancelling the road service and the Netflix, installing a wood stove and a well, repairing more and buying less, doing without until we can find it at a thrift store and not giving a penny in charity unless it supports conservatives. It’s been fun to see how low we can go.
Oh and trying to remove ourselves from the stock market and big banks.
I should add that we aren’t doing this because we don’t have the money to do it. Also had this idea. Why not apply at social services for every public benefit just to overload the system? We don’t qualify for public assistance but just going through the motions weighs down the system. Can anyone tell me if we should not do this?
Yes you should. And you should hit the Obamacare system with frivolous visits to the doctor, hospital, etc. The more the better.
The Cloward Piven strategy should be pursued. Bring it down. Apply for evey welfare benefit and government grant, handout, etc. Everyone should. Lie even to suck the beast dry and bring Leviathon to it’s knees.
Actually, dcanner, Cloward & Piven already thought of that one. It was a central tenet in their strategy of crashing the system in order to facilitate a radical leftist takeover. Community organizers like our President are very well versed in the method. It may be why he’s so hell-bent on swelling the welfare rolls as quickly as possible.
Maureen who?
Seriously. I recall listening to Don Imus on my morning drive and having him slobber all over himself about her. That was almost 20 years ago. To my knowledge she’s done nothing of note since.
Most sad is the publicity photo she uses, which I think was taken somewhere back in the Carter administration.
Ms. Dowd may be shocked to discover that she is a paler shade of white. She must acknowledge President Romney as well.
the beatles “taxman”..revisit the lyrics
“with Obama winning the vote of single women by 36 percentage points.” what about married women?
Glad someone else caught that. The “gender gap” isn’t nearly so impressive when they include all women, so they have to pick the subset most favorable to their point. They were really flipping out when the polls were showing Romney and Obama tied with women, that would’ve killed their narrative.
That would be the Dowd of whom Michael Douglas said, well you google it.
She’s qualified to give directions in NYC, if you don’t have a map.
I’ve more racial diversity in my family than she has in her life. Race means exactly nothing. Individuals are who they are. Some are losers, some are winners, some are whiners.
It’s funny. I’m probably her contemporary in age. I bet we have the same SAT score. Then life diverges. I served, married a nice foreign lady, raised a successful family, and am happy. She’s in the Times. You couldn’t get me to trade lives for a billion dollars.
I’m SO confused. My mother’s parents got off the boat in the early 1900′s from Czarist Russia….I think they were banned from the country clubs, but were considered “white”, worked from 4 am each day until early evening, bought a house, raised kids…who had kids…and are considered white. I can’t find a moosehead anywhere though.
Dad’s parents were murdered in Auschwitz…of course, they’d be considered white too. Dad was. Oh, he was also a slave laborer in Dora-Mittelhouse concentration camp. But he wasn’t black, or “African-American”, so no one gives a crap apparently. Dad also worked, brought himself up from nothing and had a wife and kids, no country club connections, but was considered “white”. I’m white. Dad voted Republican. I vote Republican.
The country club set…am I part of that as a white male, or did I miss it? I’m REALLY confused here, Maureen. Help!
I’ve never been a member of any club. I have no animal heads on my wall. I grew up with a father who worked in a quarry running heavy equipment, and a mother who worked in the high school cafeteria. I was lucky to get a scholarship to a good university based on being both poor enough, and smart enough to make the cut.
I was the first generation of my family to ever get a bachelors degree from college. My grandfather had only completed the 7th grade, and worked as a coal miner to support his family as a child. My father got his General Equivalency Degree while serving in the Military from age 17.
My family has been lower middle class to upper lower class since the American Revolution. We’ve never been rich enough to own slaves,and certainly never had plantations full of them.
Yet here it is in 2012 I am supposed to be some rich, exclusive club member, former slave owner, etc. based on my caucasian racial background. I have to say that I have never been any of those things. My ancestors have not been any of those things. I protest that I am not guilty in the current court of public demonization of “white people”.
“Ah, but you’ll have to see. In the court of public demonization the verdict is guilty with no chance of being proven innocent. You are guilty by virtue of your race, and who you are as an individual is meaningless.”
That is what we are facing from the liberal ideology today. Either get moving on destroying the false dialect of tribalism, or fall victim to it.
Identity politics is evil because it’s only divisive victimology-selling, slanderous group-might-makes-right extortion; it’s CRIME.
The problem is that liberals hate personal responsibility, so the easiest way they’ve found to avoid it, is by selling endless group-rights victimology scenarios instead. That way the cowards can pretend to be champions without accusing any individual criminals of their crimes!
Because Whites are actually in a minority worldwide, to pretend they’re not in order to foment disproportinal immigration into those areas where they happen to predominate, is actually good evidence for racist liberal TREASON and attempted demographic genoicide:
The following assessments are from:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=529759
WikiAnswers, citing the USAID Population Reference Bureau’s 2006 World Population Data Sheet, gives these “major-race” figures: Asian 60.6%, Black 14.1%, “White” 16.7%, Latino 8.5% (and I do question Latino as a separate race, and wonder what happened to Amerinds, Polynesians, Khoisan, etc.) That’s probably as good a “grouper” response as is available.
At the other extreme, the CIA World Factbook’s online data gives detailed ethnic breakdowns for every country – the data are reliable and extremely detailed.
But somehow Egyptians (and other Arabs, whom geneticists classify as ‘Caucasians,’ simply because they once originated in the Caucasus mountains) now presumably come under white, while the paler Afghans an Russians are a different race known as Asian, and are lumped with the Chinese and Indonesians.
Interesting scheme.
“Asian” as a category makes no sense even according to traditional racial categories. About 2.1 billion people, or 33% of the global population, are East and Southeast Asian, who would traditionally be classified as “Mongoloid.” Most of the rest, those of the Indian Subcontinent, as well as Iranians, Turks, Arabs, etc, would under traditional schemes be classified as Caucasians (although they would generally also be considered “non-white”). “Latino” as you observe is not a racial category at all. Most of the population of Central and South America are racially mixed, the majority being mestizo – a mixture of European (Caucasian, including the genetic Arabs from Spain’s 780 years of Submission and enslavement to islam,) and Amerindian (really only some displaced Chinese who are usually considered “Mongoloid”). There are millions of pure or nearly pure Amerinds, but their numbers are far exceeded by the mixed population. Of course many Latin Americans are Caucasian (most of Argentina and Uruguay) or of sub-Saharan African ancestry (especially in Brazil). Not to mention nazi-extracted Germans, too.
While distinctive, groups such as Khoisan, native Australians, Melanesians, etc have such relatively small populations they can pretty much be ignored on a global scale.
Much like “Jewish” as descriptor of both a religion and an ethnicity, “Asian” is commonly used to denote “people of (one of) the ethnic groups formerly termed ‘Mongoloid’,” as well as “inhabitant or native of Asia the continent.” This usage confutes ethnic groupings by confusing “denizen of Asia” with “person of East Asian or related racial extraction.”
I would love to see some system set up that acknowledges, without bringing into the picture the 300 years of abuse and hatred, oppression and fear, that poison the well, that Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, and Desmond Tutu have phenotypical characteristics in common that they do not share with Dag Hammarskjold and Mohandas Gandhi or with Sun Yatsen and Saionji, each pair of which also have characteristics in common justifying some sort of broad grouping of ethnicities.
Maybe someday….
When, in 1972 I gave an impromptu speech on women’s lib I said the day would come when might makes right because I felt then that what was right or who was right was beginning to be forced out by “rights” without requiring they be earned, come with the commesurate responsibilities and pay due deference to the rights of others.
I was 16. Who knew? That we are moving that way is only unobvious to the faint-hearted. They have their eyes closed in fear. “Damn, whitey getting all mad!”
When assailed by demanders for rights, who use them only for dominance and disrespect, I give them a hard earful. When I am called the various names my response is that a label is not enough to restrain my energetic responses. They’re cowards and can’t handle that.
Attack. Are we haters? Yes. what do we hate? Anything or anyone who is trying to subvert our (whoever that means) rights as some sort of retribution for supposed past sins.
Take up your grievances with the dead who commited them. All I have for the whiner classes is hard times and grief.
Nothing more effectively explodes the risible pretensions of the Times to be a “newspaper of record” than the lowbrow, ephemeral drivel of Maureen Dowd, who reminds me, incidentally, of a slutty fight attendant. Now just imagine if David Letterman had said that about her.
She *is* kinda cute, with that Irish red hair. But the air between her ears is truly a wonder of nature.
(Just making my contribution to the pool of easy-to-use-and-reuse stereotypes — so much easier than, you know, thinking, which is itself a symptom of the logophallocentroheterolookistwhitemalepatriarchy
By the way, what color is Ms. Dowd? Oh, that’s right, she’s WHITE, and rich too. So I guess she is so “down with the struggle” that she really feels qualified to understand the racial problems that face this nation. And if Mitt Romney is the president of white male America, why isn’t it racist to also say that Obama was the candidate for black and brown America? After all, they voted for him in droves and even during the election his own political strategists wrote off white, middle-class, Americans. Hmmm, so if you cater primarily to one or two racial groups and give them whatever they want and promise them whatever they want, how is that NOT being a racist and a bigot?
The major problem was that Mitt Romney was trying to be president of ALL Americans. Obama and his minions are quite happy only representing black, brown, and Asian Americans. And THAT, my friends, is being a real racist. I’ll bet Obama can’t wait to start having his people start burning some crosses on white people’s lawns. Hey, according to Obama and his followers, it’s payback time, right? By 2016, you will see social unrest and riots that will make the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles look like a joke. Hope Obama is happy with the country he helped to racially divide.
So when do the White men go on strike? Honestly, we need to exert OUR economic power. Let’s pick a day, or an entire weekend and boycott all forms of commerce. Do not report to work. Earn no money therefore no revenue for the gov. Spend no money. No food purchase. No gasoline. Nothing. Watch the economy sieze. Then let’s have a discussion about how evil we are.
You don’t understand Maureen Dowd. In her circles, a white male who has failed to achieve the country clubs and cigars is a drone — he doesn’t count.
You have stitched it up neatly, IB Bill. Let me extend it: In New York Times culture, there are only two ways to count as a person – e.g., for your life to have any meaning. The first is to be a certified victim. The second is to have a six-figure income. If you can pull off both of those, you’re a perfect role model! If you have neither, you’re livestock.
all of it is bs. obama beat romney 50.9% to 47.4% of popular vote. bush beat kerry 50.7% to 48.3% of popular vote (pretty darn similar). i don’t remember the media howling that bush won by a landslide, was given a mandate or that the democratic party are destroyed.
in other words, the progressives dominating the narrative are spinning (read lying) to advance their agenda. don’t let them. throw the actual numbers in their face at every opportunity
I once casually dated a really liberal girl who asked me “Don’t you ever just feel really guilty for being white?” And I lust looked at her like she’d admitted to having an STD and said “no, why the hell would you?” We didn’t date for long.
That’s the basic level of brainwashing we’re dealing with here. White liberal guilt fills the role of original sin in their perverse progressive religion. Some will wake up after getting mugged or violated after disregarding basic common sense, most never really do. Ironically the only people I’ve known who seemed to demand that I feel this baseless guilt where all white. I’ve had many friends and acquaintances, even sexual partners, of other races. I always tacitly or explicitly said that I was simply proud of who and what I was. No further elaboration needed. I was respected more for it, and for having the courage to say it. The white progressive types who groveled and tried to suck up were viewed with nothing but disdain.
not sure which subgenre of dowd’s writing is more embarrassing for her: a) the old columns where she complained about how a middle-aged woman like her just couldn’t find a man up to her standards; or, b) these columns where, having not found said fella, she turns on all white men and basically says, “oh, how i hate you!”
pretty pathetic either way, but ideological solidarity prevents her readers from calling her what she clearly is: bitter & lonely.
According to Ms. Dowd’s “reasoning,” boy-President Obama governs black America, union thugs and a percentage of self-serving white women.
“nobody who thinks this is brave enough to come right out and conclude something so obviously illiterate”
Except Chris Matthews.
The Democrats have been practicing divisiveness for over a century. It worked for ancient Rome — for a while.
I’m so glad somebody finally broke the taboo and said this, because it has been my hobby-horse since the election. To wit, that left-wing anti-white identity politics will inevitably force white people to become an ethnically-conscious political bloc. I haven’t figured out whether we are talking about white people, white christians or white christian males, as we distill the bloc into its most coherent center. (I use the term christian to mean non-Jewish, since Jewish voters decisively reject such a political identity.) The white christian male cohort has begun to congeal into a voting bloc, irrespective of class. The working class white christian males with whom I am acquainted feel this more viscerally than do some of my wealthier friends who know that “white identity” or “white power” have negative David Duke/George Lincoln Rockwell associations. This is a phenomenon that the Left has clearly identified in countless articles that appear everyday. Yet if one raises the subject in polite company, the reaction is frosty. It is not a subject for polite conversation because it, quite obviously, racist. Thus the anti-white left can freely discuss the issue while the target cohort, white christians, consider it taboo. This will have to change. The left is right and the right is wrong. The GOP is becoming the white christian party, whether Republicans want to admit it or not. Considering that white christians make up 70-75% of the electorate, it is not a negligible demographic. However, thw white christian male is a smaller short, suggesting that the GOP “war on women” has driven millions of white women into the anti- camp. A party consisting exclusively of white christian males is not going to win except in Fox News online polls.
We have noticed a much greater willingness among our white christian dinner guests to talk about “white pride” and other racial issues. It’s almost feels like relief when you are able to discuss these things. It seems like maybe a damn is about to break. Finally.
oops. “dam”
Indeed. If we give White Women a choice to join the White European Identity group, that protects them and their rights and interests, then they have something to hang their hat on. If we offer them nothing, then, you can be sure that they will join the something. If you give them no tribe to protect them, then they will seek a tribe that will.
Here we go again with Tribe = Race. Bull. Don’t play that game. My tribe = the smart, productive, decent people. I work with Indians, Asians, Whites, and Others. (Not many blacks but a few.) Funny thing — those Indians and Asians do not buy the racial crap. If anything, they see themselves as “white” if that term has any meaning.
I am me. I am who I am. Touch me and I touch back. That’s all. Those who can read this, take heed.
As a white guy, I guess I’d have second thoughts about supporting the Democrats if I thought they were attacking my rights. I just don’t think they are. Some of their policies do threaten certain privileges of being white, I suppose; but I’m vain enough to think that I’ll do OK on a level playing field. That many of you feel that you do need a special advantage is understandable, however.
By the way, I think you’ll find many centrists and liberals agree with your scorn for Dowd. She does have a penchant for easy snark, and the fact that she sometimes attacks people who deserve to be pelted with rotten eggs doesn’t change that.
Since the So Cons should roll over to “win” thread has shut down…
This is to Mr. Burns
It doesnt matter what term you throw around Federalism, 10th Amendmentism, limited government, decentralization, etc…the Left and it’s minions in the MSM are going to link it to fearmongering minorities with Jim Crow, Segregation, and Slavery. Not that these Leftwing Identity Politics leftwing groups need the prompting, they will do it themselves. The love the Federal Government as a protector and promoter of their interests over the White European Christian Male racist theocrat patriarchal oppressors.
“Right Wing Extremists”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHXzM4FCz_Ifeature=player_embedded
So this is the conservative movement’s bright idea to attract new voters? Wage petty vindictive assaults against columnists who criticized you for your failings? Good luck with that. You guys got what you deserved.
Okay, I’ll play. Maureen Dowd is a lying evil bitch that no self respecting male would #$%$ with someone else’s $#@* (if you catch my drift). STFU Walter you pasty faced little worm.
Do you want a kleenex Wally?
White Europeans are going to wise up eventually. It doesnt matter what you think, it is what the people in power who hate you think. Just ask the Jews.
My guess is it will take Islam to awaken the White European Christian juggernaut, which will coalesce to it’s former glory….after a period of ugliness and misery. A people confident in their own rights to exist and to prosper, and promote their own culture without deference to anybody.
EscapeVelocity will now lead us in several choruses of the Horst Wessel song.
Look, I don’t hold PJ responsible for every nut in every comment thread, but there is a pretty common pattern in these parts. The article claims that the Conservatives aren’t engaging in identity politics, but the commenters make it pretty clear that they are, that they are the voice of the endangered white community.
This sort of simultaneous denial and assertion of your own publicly advertised beliefs is quite perplexing. For example, your side has campaigned vigorously to make abortion illegal, and yet you express surprise that women who are in favor of Roe vs Wade don’t vote for your candidates. Similarly, from your presidential candidate on down you’ve shown consistent disdain, bordering on sheer hatred, for people who don’t make very much money; and yet you are surprised you don’t get their votes. Heck, you try to make it difficult or impossible for minorities to vote and you do so in a highly public way. How, then, can you caught by surprise when the people you want to disenfranchise get mad at you? We can hear you, you know.
If you’re going to harbor unpopular ideas, you need to improve your lying. It’s bad enough to be though evil. Do you really want to be thought incompetent as well?
Just like those Nazi Israeli Jews, heh?
Hi Jim.
Your ahem ‘talking points’ is what Conservatives like myself refer to as the expected garden variety, kool-aid nonsense Illiberal’s like yourself espouse ALL-THE-TIME.
Do you REALLY think the GOP can or wish to overturn Roe v Wade? Come on! Your conjecture and ad hominem regarding the GOP’s intent though is.. yeah expected.
No, the message I get from the majority of GOP types is they don’t want to be on the hook to pay for said abortions, sexual protection.
You know, like your ‘awesome spokesperson’ and ‘War on Women’ pimp Sandra Fluke wishes.
I’d looove to see said evidence of Romney’s ‘disdain’ for the poor. Whereas our CiC has shown open disdain for ‘corporate fat cats’, ‘typical White person.. guns & religion’/ ‘African Americans for Obama’ taxpayer provided website/ ‘..acted stupidly’, southern people (even YOU have had to have seen the strange Uhbama ‘sermon’ in pseudo-Southern accent. Dude gives me the creeps), mentally disabled (poking fun of Special Olympics participants for his candy a ss bowling on Leno), state’s rights (he and his DoJ suing AZ, AL for THEIR LEGALLY passed immigration laws via the voting citizenry).. I can go on and on.
YOU assume ‘minorities’ are too inefficient to handle their finances appropriately and ‘can’t afford’ a ~ $10-$25 driver’s license/ I.D. ?
Now THAT’S having NO faith in your fellow neighbor. In some circles it can be considered blatantly racist, Jim. Unless you’re Illiberal and talking to like-minded Illiberals.. am I right?
Yep, ‘thanks’ for your ‘lucid’ and ‘even-keeled’ summation.
If Romney had won, he would most likely have had the opportunity to name two or three Supreme court justices. He would certainly have picked conservatives who could be counted on overturning Roe vs Wade. Granted the current state of the court, even one more right winger would do the trick. Whether they would welcome this outcome or not, everybody in the country who cares about the abortion issue understands what a Romney victory would mean. Meanwhile, it hasn’t escaped notice that states dominated by Republicans have passed a huge number of laws aimed at getting around Roe vs Wade. Hell, you guys support jamming probes up women’s vaginas in order to shame them into not getting abortions. It’s a wonder you haven’t attempted to legalize the murder of gynecologists who perform abortions instead of simply applauding it quietly when it happens.
It is sheer dishonesty on your part to pretend that the GOP doesn’t want to overturn Roe vs Wade. You are simply practicing the Big Lie. Stop it.
We wouldn’t need to “jam probes up women’s vaginas” if they hadn’t been in too much of a hurry to jam SOMETHING ELSE in there that they couldn’t find time to unroll a $0.50 condom.
To borrow a Briticism from TV talk show import Jeremy Kyle: Just “PUT SOMETHING ON THE END OF IT!” and ALL this funding foofaraw simply GOES AWAY…
Stop it….or what, you going to hold your breath until you turn blue
Jimmie, epic logic fail. We show disdain for those who don’t make so much money by criticizing MoDope for saying all white males are sipping toddies at the country club.
We try to make it impossible for minorities to vote by insisting they head down to the Motor Vehicle Department and get a license or other i.d. You patronizing elitist tool! Them black folks need us Yale grads to guard their rights. They’re kind of slow and all, you know?
Normal conservative behavior. We aren’t racists and anyhow the people we despise are stupid so it’s OK to be racist.
Quite a few Republican politicians are now on record that the whole point of the voter ID measures was to keep legitimate voters from voting. It had zip to do with voter fraud, which is essentially non existent in the U.S. and certainly didn’t have any effect on the outcome of an election in which one side cleaned the other side’s clock.
Thing is, your kind are even not good liars, which is surprising in a way since you have so much practice. The hard right in the U.S. has become something like a lint trap that collects the trashiest part of the population.
Jimbo: I bet you are a white guy. So how does it feel to be hung up by your b@lls while still supporting those you hate you? Just how does that cognitive dissonance work for you?
Watch your back their jimmbo. When they tire of good tools like you they will dispense of you as well.
Hey fool, you leftists are the ones implying minorities are incapable of getting i.d. not us so don’t go projecting your elitist bigotry on me. We believe all people are capable of managing their own lives but you leftists create groups of the dependent who just can’t function without the help of stooges like you. Nice racket clownboy but the money’s running out. Woe is you when you have to get a real job, you know like the ones most white guys have like being plumbers and carpenters and mechanics and farmers and every other noble trade that little Ms. Dowdy disparaged. The only white boys at the country club are you nomenklatura geniuses who got us in this mess.
Voter fraud “virtually nonexistent” in USA???!!!!
Please, PLEASE search out and re-read any one of HUNDREDS of articles about the MASSIVE voter fraud and rampant corruption PROVEN to have been committed by ACORN!
You’d better believe it’s worse this time, just better hidden.
If ACORN had an effect on the recent election, it did so from the grave. ACORN has been out of business for two years, destroyed in part by a Bill of Attainder passed with the enthusiastic support of people like you who supposedly think the constitution is a sacred document but apparently can’t be bothered to read it. IOn any case, ACORN’s real “crime” wasn’t voter fraud, something they apparently never engaged in according to results of several investigations: what bothers right wingers about ACORN is that it dared to organized people they don’t think should be able to vote. Your outlook isn’t greatly different from that of the Klan, which also worked ceaselessly to deny the vote to the wrong kind of people.
The idea that voter fraud is a big deal in the United States is simply a way for you to explain to yourselves how you could possibly lose a fair election since your point of view is obviously correct and only fools, crooks, or fanatics could fail to see the TRUTH. You’re living in a paranoid delusional system. Unfortunately, while it’s hard to breach the psychological defenses of individual paranoids, it’s plain impossible when they form a pack.
“Dowd really knows how to squat over the page and deliver nuggets of wisdom.”
That was very professional, wasn’t it. Mature, intellectual, civil…
You expect that sort of thing in the comments. Some who comment are really just kids who don’t know any better, while others have significant anger issues.
…but in the body of article, itself?
Maureen Dowd’s Nazi like screed, deserves to be ridiculed. But alas, she is esconced in our elite institutions as she promotes hatred and demonizes a segment of society, whiteEuropeans/Christians/men. In fact she is lauded and praised for doing so.
This isnt going to end well. Of that I can guarantee you.
While I agree with the general sentiments of that comment in the article, reading it as a part of an effort to replace or respond to the MSM’s lack of professionalism???
Yeah. That’s counterproductive.
Prof. Carol M. Swain said:
White nationalists are encouraging white Americans to adopt the interest group politics of racial and ethnic minorities. In making their case to ordinary white Americans, the leaders of the new white nationalism have appropriated the language of the left. Multiculturalism argues that all groups ought to be able to organize to celebrate their unique heritage, contributions to the world and genetic makeup. White nationalists argue that if identity politics is good for minorities, then it must also be good for whites. Civil rights rhetoric tells us that discrimination on account of race; gender or national origin is unconstitutional.
White nationalist leaders point out that white Americans are discriminated against by governmental policies, and that this is unfair and un-American. Whites should, therefore, band together to protect themselves from insensitive and illegal governmental policies. The primary goal of the new white nationalism is the preservation of white European culture and values. White nationalism, therefore, is a non-violent separatist movement.
Racial diversity becomes a source of great conflict when governments and institutions adopt policies that favor some groups over others.
White identity politics may well be the next logical stage for identity politics in America. As long as racial and ethnic minorities push separatist agendas, we can expect white Americans, especially as they decline as a percentage of the population, to begin to behave like self-interested minorities.
White nationalists push identity politics as a way for disorganized whites to fight public and private initiatives said to favor minorities at the expense of more deserving white Americans. I firmly believe we have carried identity politics too far in this country. We need to stress our shared American values and move away from the hyphenated identities that divide Americans, while providing a compelling justification for whites to move in the same direction.
We need a collective move away from identity politics. White nationalism is the baby that multiculturalism birthed. Our national interests as Americans are ill-served by racial double standards and the single-minded focus on racial politics. Hopefully, we can rise to a higher level.
Many whites, especially younger ones, see racial double standards that place them at a disadvantage. Why don’t we try to collectively move away from overt racial politics and focus on forging an American national identity? As long as racial and ethnic minorities push for identity politics, many whites will want to join.
Unfortunately, white nationalists leaders are exploiting some legitimate grievances and fears that trouble many Americans. These worries include concerns about racial preferences, liberal immigration policies, black-on-white violent crime rates, and job losses due to globalization and other shocks to the economy. In their search for votes, leaders of the major political parties have seemly abandoned addressing some of these grievances that resonate with ordinary, non-racist Americans.
I would gladly exchange racial preferences for race neutral social welfare programs and more aggressive programs to fight discrimination. Affirmative action, as currently practised does little to help the poor and liberal immigration policies clearly harms Americans with low skills and low levels of education. Unfortunately, it will take a racial crisis before the government does anything about the situation. These grievances are already being voiced by the white nationalists leadership and others who see an injustice.
We cannot sustain racial preferences in a society as diverse as we are becoming and not expect unrest and turmoil.
I believe that we are increasingly at risk of unprecedented levels of racial conflict and turmoil because of conditions coming together at this point in history. These conditions include the continuing influx into the country of non-white immigrants and the prospect that America in the not-too-distant future will cease to be a white majority nation. Many Americans are worried about liberal immigration policies, the decline in high paying, low-skill industrial jobs, and globalization.
Census Bureau data show that all Americans have experienced a loss in real wages and that non-Hispanic whites have had the sharpest increase in poverty. Also, certain social, political, and economic conditions can spur rises in hate crimes against disfavored groups. I see a devil’s brew for future racial and social unrest. White nationalists stand ready to exploit the frustrations of ordinary white Americans. Another powerful source of future conflict comes from the rising expectations and demands of racial minorities for a greater share of the nation’s wealth and political power.
Well thank you. I would like to summarize by saying that we should strive to promote an American national identity. Although we can never be totally color-blind as a society, we can adopt race neutral public policies. What we have in place today are a set of policies that pit different groups of Americans against each other. As a multiracial, multiethnic society, America has defied the odds for other countries because we are a nation where the majority of people profess to be God fearing individuals, who believe in a common creator, and a brotherhood of man. Racial preference programs are at odds with core Christian principles of universalism that stress the role of the autonomous individual, equal to every other human being in the eyes of God.
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Sorry Prof. Swain, we cant even unite under Christianity these days. The minority identity groups arent going to disband and abandon their lifes projects (projects that have been very effective, and gained them wealth, power, and praise).
What is coming is overt and unapologetic Whtie European Identity Politcs. The chance for color blind society and equality of opportunity and equality before the law is rapidly closing.
“We need a collective move away from identity politics.”
Oh wow, that’s rich.
Mr Wargas, have you watched Mad Men? It is set in 1960 and I remember many of the attitudes that they focus on well, especially in regard to the treatment of women.
You may not be old enough to remember the ‘codes’ that men and women were held to. One of the reasons the Republican party will slowly disappear is many on the right seem to think that we should go back to 1960. Erase the 60′s and 70′s. As a man, I have an infinitely richer life for the advances of those years. Finally the world is realizing that we must find a way to instill morals in our children without the spirit killing guilt and shame that is set in the bones of Christianity and Islam. It seems to be inseparable from the politics of the right. Until the right wakes up to this reality, they will lose everything on this issue alone. It will be a cold day in hell and all the little devils will come out with ice skates, before I vote for anyone who wants to tell the citizens of America what they can or can’t do with their God given equipment.
Hey Lance give Ms. Dowd a call at (800)IMA-LOSER. She’s probably feeling lonely tonight after the boys at the country club rejected her.
I would offer trang and Mac below as exhibits A and B of my argument for the premise of MadMen. The prosecution rests.
You’ll know it’s here when you first see a white person called a “race traitor.”
There’s an awful lot of anger out there over this election. More than I’ve ever seen before. The left wants to believe they have a monopoly on political violence. They don’t, and I suspect they’re going to find that out soon. If someone put a bullet into Dowd’s head, there would be a lot of people who would see it as well deserved.
See Tim Wise.
Ummmmm…I hate to burst your bubble, but white nationalists have been using the term “race traitor” for DECADES; what rock have YOU been hiding under?!
Bingo. Dowd is a coward and failure – a bitter, old WHITE woman. Not only would Dowd not say the things she writes to a white, blue collar male, she wouldn’t say it to a suit either. Dowd is an utter, complete phony – another mound of flesh the world will be better off without when she passes.
And the fact this single women demographic crap is reason to change the approach? Hah. I’d soon be dead.
Most single women over the age of 30 I meet (not all) are the most bitter, untalented, overeducated, shrew like misandrists you’ll ever meet – because of their own personal failures, they look for any excuse to explain their bitterness and men are an easy target. Screw ‘um. An America built around that demographic would be sheer hell.
The days of me holding my tongue are over. I can’t even stand to be in the company of most of these nags, much less want to live around them. Even my wife can’t stand them and holds no sympathy either. I’m not going to cave to these shrew’s whims. After this election they own it, I’m going to start treating them like they deserve to be treated – like a doormat. And if I get to a chance to put the screws to them, I will.
You want a gender war, nags? Let’s get it on.
This is why I haven’t had a female friend for almost 25 years. Men usually just don’t buy into all this nonsense. (Except liberal “men,” who hardly count!)
There you go Tex, this could be the start of something grand! I think she liked the “Let’s get it on!” part. You two sort out the details and let us know. You old hound dog you!
Great article. Let me add a bit.
I fished this up out of my Impossible-Things-To-Believe-Before-Breakfast file: In the September 1/8, 2008 print edition of ‘The Nation’, on pages 18-23, one Chris Bowers (the managing editor of openleft.com) has a piece entitled “The End of Bubba Dominance”.
Wherein we are informed that the Republicans invented “backlash identity politics” (as a term and a concept) while the Democrats have for the past 40 years merely been robustly pursuing good-old “American coalition politics”.
I can only disagree. First of all, what the Dems have been doing isn’t properly “politics” at all, as understood in the ideal Western tradition where informed voters rationally come together to deliberate matters of vital common import and formulate the best possible workable approach to dealing with those issues.
Rather, I’d say that the Dems have been following an agitprop simulacrum of Western political activity precisely designed i) not to inform voters but to hoodwink them; ii) not based on any sort of rational deliberation but on a robustly manipulated emotional and anti-rational stampede; iii) the whole thing then spun as exactly what it is not so as to cloak the corrosion thus effected. Thus the numerous ‘liberations’ that have somehow created the mess we have today.
Further, I’d say that as the consequences of so many of the ‘liberal’ liberations of the past 40 Biblical years are now becoming unavoidably and un-spinnably obvious, they will have to resort increasingly to tossing out even more Impossible Things to be Believed in order to somehow blame everybody else but themselves for all the damage that they have caused. (For which purpose the marvelously sleazy ‘backlash’ serves the purpose and has done so from Day One; the problem isn’t the plan or ‘change’ they implemented (imposed, is more like it) – rather, the problem is the ‘backlash’ against it that screwed up an otherwise fine and dandy idea.
And, of course, ‘backlash’ is defined not merely as robustly opposing, but even simply doubting, the plan or idea (or vision or dream or hope or daydream or dampdream or fill-in-the-blank).
Neat.
Let’s wait and see.
We have plenty of city black administrations to draw parallels with. If anyone thinks that a black administration is suddenly going to bring order and prosperity —let us wait. Unfortunately the result will be almost irreversible.
As I remember it is was white males that made the country successful in the first place. Take a look at Africa and the Middle East. Coming to your neighbourhood soon.
White males built the country and it is White males that are deliberately destroying it because they now want a new world order and they think they should run it. Circles all circles thank God I am over 70 because I do not want to be around when the planned strife begins it will make WW11 look pretty damn kinder garden stuff.