RE: US police brutality item
June 25, 2020 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2020 at 11:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I doubt (or enjoy doubting) that this was Editz contention. I say this, but I've played this game many times before and it rarely ends well.
It's certainly not the contention of the white supremacists who, as Steve Bannon put it, flooded the zone with shit. They would prefer that the subject takeaway be that there very much is racism in this world, against the poor downtrodden whites. I'd screengrab the ledes from the first 10 pages of hits to drive this one home, but, honestly...it's exactly what you would expect.
I've been ringing the bells about this shit for years. It's alienated people who I liked very much, who couldn't divorce their own racial and intellectual insecurities from my comments about efforts to harm and propagandize them. I worry that they've found the winning message. Mostly, because it definitely works and spreads itself with an ease that traditional white supremacist propaganda never managed to achieve in the post civil rights era, but even more because it seems to compel people to isolate themselves whenever it's pointed out - leaving those subjects away and apart from their well intentioned and caring peers with nothing but the white supremacists to flood their brains with further shit.
Modern liberalism as a philosophy has it's defining characteristics as a concern for others and disdain for harmful social or political orders. This is precisely what white supremacists are appealing to, today. People imagine that so long as they can resist the message that whites are superior to blacks then they've won the fight, but that's not even the field of play anymore. It's that whites have it as bad or even worse than blacks...that this fictional race has become a victim of a harmful social or political order...and no one cares.
It's certainly not the contention of the white supremacists who, as Steve Bannon put it, flooded the zone with shit. They would prefer that the subject takeaway be that there very much is racism in this world, against the poor downtrodden whites. I'd screengrab the ledes from the first 10 pages of hits to drive this one home, but, honestly...it's exactly what you would expect.
I've been ringing the bells about this shit for years. It's alienated people who I liked very much, who couldn't divorce their own racial and intellectual insecurities from my comments about efforts to harm and propagandize them. I worry that they've found the winning message. Mostly, because it definitely works and spreads itself with an ease that traditional white supremacist propaganda never managed to achieve in the post civil rights era, but even more because it seems to compel people to isolate themselves whenever it's pointed out - leaving those subjects away and apart from their well intentioned and caring peers with nothing but the white supremacists to flood their brains with further shit.
Modern liberalism as a philosophy has it's defining characteristics as a concern for others and disdain for harmful social or political orders. This is precisely what white supremacists are appealing to, today. People imagine that so long as they can resist the message that whites are superior to blacks then they've won the fight, but that's not even the field of play anymore. It's that whites have it as bad or even worse than blacks...that this fictional race has become a victim of a harmful social or political order...and no one cares.
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