Is it possible to go even one day without reading a story about “racism”? I submit that it is not. If I’m reading this story correctly, there is a class-action suit pending in Iowa in which
[t]he plaintiffs — up to 6,000 African-Americans passed over for state jobs and promotions dating back to 2003 — do not say they faced overt racism or discriminatory hiring tests in Iowa, a state that is 91 percent white. Instead, their lawyers argue that managers subconsciously favored whites across state government, leaving blacks at a disadvantage in decisions over who got interviewed, hired and promoted.
You may now be sued for actions that are notional or speculative: if they cannot be demonstrated empirically, they are still presumed to have occurred on some subcellular level. You are guilty by reason of metaphysics.
You are going to read these stories forever until people stand up and fight against cheap psychology touted as common sense or even science like “post traumatic slave syndrome,” “white privilege” and “The New Jim Crow.”
We need to realize it’s 2012 and stop allowing racialist and racist one-sided institutions like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Black Congressional Caucus, the NAACP, affirmative action, hate crimes, black mainstream websites that are little better than centers of hate speech, and the Association of Black Journalist plus a hundred others. Even black Hollywood stuntmen have an org and the entire maching is centered around the idea that white people are racists, itself a racist charge.
There is not a single such mainstream entity which resides on the political Right which weirdly takes the lion’s share of accusations of racism. Political correctness is an upside down world and an excuse machine that explains away the most outrageous hypocrisy.
I find it humorous–and occasionally effective–to point out to lefties that they’d be up in arms about the NAAWP (National Association for the Advancement of White People), but they just love the NAACP. I point out that it’s because they’re the secret racists, not me.
On a different but related note, it can be hilarious to point out to oh-so-hip animal rightists or vegans/vegetarians just where the leather they’re probably wearing comes from. I usually start it by pointing out how realistic they can make fake leather look these days, and they almost always indignantly tell me that it’s real leather, at which point I pull the punchline.
That’s a good one: I usually use some black activist’s incredibly racist quote as coming from a white media personality and substitute the word “white” for black. After they gnash their teeth at the incredibly blatant racism I tell them it’s Melissa Harris-Perry or Cornel West.
Sad you have to trap people into admitting their stupid and bigoted one-sided agendas but then they’re in a deep perceptual trap to start with aren’t they? Gander/goose: the intellectual Rubik’s Cube of the Left.
My subconscience takes the 5th…
I don’t have a subconscious aversion to Blacks. I do have a very conscious aversion to stupidity, which anyone who signs onto this suit possesses in spades.
There are plenty of people in the workplace using the race card to get jobs they aren’t qualified to have and promotions they have not earned. Even worse, they use the threat of legal action to coast through, either refusing to do their jobs well or not doing them at all.
Many superivisors and hiring managers bending over backwards to avoid accusations of even subconcious racism…and it’s to the detriment of their companies and the good morale of their other employees. It’s another hidden cost of doing business imposed by the left and the leeches on society they enable.