{"id":1455072,"date":"2022-04-27T08:16:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455072"},"modified":"2022-04-27T08:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:17:01","slug":"leftists-claim-everything-is-racist-except-for-actual-race-hatred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-claim-everything-is-racist-except-for-actual-race-hatred\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Claim Everything Is Racist \u2014 Except For Actual Race Hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftists-claim-everything-is-racist-except-for-actual-race-hatred%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455072&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/cycling-e1650923051140.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been tuned into politics for the last several years, you\u2019ve no doubt heard <em>a lot <\/em>about racism. You\u2019ve been told that America is systemically, systematically, structurally, institutionally, and irrevocably racist. You\u2019ve also heard that millions of Americans are racist, or, at best, that they uphold a racist system through colorblind ignorance. Maybe you\u2019ve even been told that <em>you\u2019re<\/em> a racist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But with claims of racism becoming all the rage, the term has lost its legitimacy. In fact, it seems like almost everything has been branded with the buzzword. Just try Googling \u201cthe problem with racism in \u2026\u201d and fill in the blank. <\/p>\n<p>Skiing? Racist. Knitting? Racist. Milk? Racist. Camping, cycling, baseball, fireworks, white male-dominated \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/04\/24\/opinion\/how-pandemic-changed-way-black-workers-go-work\/\">cubicle culture<\/a>\u201d and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14791420601138351\">NFL draft<\/a> have all fallen prey to the slur. So, what isn\u2019t racist? Truth is, it\u2019s hard to find things the left <em>won\u2019t <\/em>call racist.<\/p>\n<h2>Can Anything Be Racist?<\/h2>\n<p>The University of Wisconsin at Madison provided a telling example of this hysteria when it removed a<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/09\/rocks-are-racist-now-university-of-wisconsin-moves-derogatory-boulder-for-50k\/\"> rare, 42-ton boulder<\/a> from its campus at the behest of the Black Student Union, which claimed the rock was a \u201cracist monument\u201d all because the student newspaper used a slur to refer to it almost 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This provided justification for the university to spend an estimated $50,000 to remove it. Julianna Bennett, a campus representative for the Madison City Council, said \u201cBIPOC students\u201d can \u201cbe proud of our endurance,\u201d and \u201cbegin healing\u201d now that it\u2019s gone. If even a boulder can be deemed racist, is there anything that can\u2019t be?<\/p>\n<p>The demand for racism exceeds the supply. If it didn\u2019t, there\u2019d be no need for grand moral crimes to be ascribed to boulders and knitting, nor for falsified hate crimes from the likes of Bubba Wallace and Jussie Smollett.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But since such allegations can be taken advantage of by those who shamelessly use racial division as the currency by which they purchase political power or name recognition, they persist.<\/p>\n<h2>Are The Arts Racist?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nmbx.newmusicusa.org\/its-time-to-let-classical-music-die\/\">Classical music<\/a> also is allegedly \u201cinherently racist,\u201d with the Italian Antonio Vivaldi allegedly \u201cparticipating in the act of destroying culture\u201d and replacing it with \u201cits own white supremacist narrative.\u201d\u00a0Okay, then.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/news\/art-industry-systemic-racial-inequality\"> art industry<\/a> is also home to systemic racism, we\u2019re told. No, those lambasting its racism aren\u2019t critiquing Kehine Wiley, the artist who painted Barack Obama\u2019s presidential portrait and had previously painted two pieces in which black women had<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-5386961\/Obama-artist-painted-black-women-decapitating-white-women.html\"> decapitated<\/a> white women in what he called a \u201ckill whitey thing.\u201d Nor are they decrying a different image of nude black women carrying the severed heads of white people in a post from @supportblackart that<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2020\/10\/20\/instagram-refuses-to-remove-black-art-image-showing-severed-heads-of-white-people\/\"> Instagram refused<\/a> to take down.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also remarkably little uproar about Cleon Peterson, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artwork\/cleon-peterson-little-man-big-man-putin\">apparently leftwing<\/a> artist who has undertaken such massive projects as painting Edmund de Rothschild\u2019s boat and the mural under the Eiffel Tower, both after he had already made a career of painting disturbing, racialized<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/images\/search?q=cleon+peterson+art&#038;form=HDRSC2&#038;first=1&#038;tsc=ImageBasicHover\"> depictions of violence<\/a> with pieces like<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artist-series\/cleon-peterson-end-of-empire\"> \u201cEnd of Empire<\/a>,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artwork\/cleon-peterson-vengeance-to-take-1\"> \u201cVengeance to Take<\/a>,\u201d and the series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/artwork\/cleon-peterson-blood-and-soil-i-2\">Blood &#038; Soil<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/news\/art-industry-systemic-racial-inequality\">article<\/a> complains that the attendees at a \u201cF-ck White Supremacy\u201d silent dance party were too white, an absurd critique that sells all too well among<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/30\/robin-diangelo-cashes-in-on-her-audiences-white-guilt-calls-them-all-racist-again-in-new-book\/\"> ethno-masochistic white liberals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re told that our<a href=\"https:\/\/now.tufts.edu\/articles\/film-industry-s-race-problem\"> film industry<\/a> is also<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-grammy-awards-are-racist-as-hell\"> racist<\/a>, but such critiques aren\u2019t levied against Jamie Foxx\u2019s comments about getting to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/noel-sheppard\/2012\/12\/10\/jamie-foxx-jokes-about-killing-all-white-people-his-new-movie\">kill all the white people<\/a>\u201d in \u201cDjango Unchained\u201d or the showing of a short film titled \u201cWhy Don\u2019t We Murder More White People?\u201d at a taxpayer-funded museum in San Francisco. <\/p>\n<p>Who can forget \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12636872\/\">Karen<\/a>\u201d or Netflix\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/80095698\">Dear White People<\/a>?\u201d\u00a0There\u2019s also the series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EtF5THjCu0M\">Cracka<\/a>,\u201d which was featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cracka-Lorenzo-Antonucci\/dp\/B08QVGP8M5\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&#038;keywords=cracka&#038;qid=1629771864&#038;s=instant-video&#038;sr=1-1\">Amazon<\/a>, Google Play, and iTunes. It gleefully rewrites history to make white people slaves under the thumbs of black masters, even opening the trailer by fantasizing about sexual assault. Contrast all this with the calls to cancel the no-good, very bad, definitely racist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/10\/arts\/television\/protests-fictional-cops.html\">Paw Patrol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Academia Is Racist Too<\/h2>\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americantheatre.org\/2020\/12\/22\/lets-be-real-these-programs-wont-end-racism-at-your-theatre\/\">theater<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedp.com\/article\/2020\/07\/ivy-league-slavery-racist-past-princeton-yale-penn-woodrow-wilson\">Ivy League Universities<\/a> have been dubbed racist, which must make Harvard theater majors some of the most virulent racists, especially if they\u2019re in a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.thinkprogress.org\/fraternities-were-built-on-racism-so-why-are-we-surprised-when-they-do-racist-things-70db8f20aeec\/\">fraternity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But those on the left who are indicting Ivy League institutions on charges of racism aren\u2019t doing so because of affirmative action policies that intentionally, and yes, systematically<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2020\/08\/18\/the_progressive_racism_of_the_ivy_league_143989.html\"> discriminate<\/a> against both Asian and white applicants. Nor are they decrying the statements of Yale lecturer Aruna Khilanani, who described her desire to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/04\/lecturer-at-official-yale-event-fantasizes-about-brutally-murdering-white-people-claims-all-white-people-are-rotten\/\">unload a revolver<\/a> into the heads\u201d of white people during a lecture to Yale\u2019s School of Medicine. Allegations are rarely levied against the faux-scholarship of <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordre.com\/education\/view\/10.1093\/acrefore\/9780190264093.001.0001\/acrefore-9780190264093-e-5\">critical whiteness studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/higher-education-is-based-in-racist-and-classist-assumptions-education-nonprofit-ceo-says-book-review\/\">Academia<\/a> in its entirety has been called racist too, but not because government-funded universities publish openly hateful articles like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/texas-student-newspaper-blasted-over-anti-white-your-dna-is-an-abomination-column\">this<\/a>, which attack people on account of their immutable characteristics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the Ivies haven\u2019t been able to avoid the slur, that hasn\u2019t kept institutions like Harvard from weaponizing the term, condemning the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/blog\/racism-discrimination-health-care-providers-patients-2017011611015\"> health-care industry\u2019s racism<\/a>, for example. No, they weren\u2019t critiquing Democrat Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear\u2019s promise to provide government-funded health-care<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/06\/09\/873377543\/governor-promises-to-provide-free-health-care-for-all-black-kentuckians-who-need\"> exclusively<\/a> to African Americans.<\/p>\n<h2>The Left Claims America Is Racist<\/h2>\n<p>Celebrating certain holidays or expressing national pride are allegedly forms of racism, with the left condemning<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/christopher-columbus-racism\/\"> Columbus Day<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/20\/is-thanksgiving-a-racist-holiday\/\"> Thanksgiving<\/a>, and even the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoriBush\/status\/1411713466608635909?s=20\">4th of July<\/a>.\u00a0The Betsy Ross flag has been deemed racist by Colin Kaepernick, which resulted in Nike pulling shoes emblazoned with the symbol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/ct-biz-nike-kaepernick-betsy-ross-flag-20190703-53bqcmqhkzh7dad5dgvpcopkqi-53bqcmqhkzh7dad5dgvpcopkqi-story.html\">off the shelves<\/a>. Sunny Hostin even explained on air that she was<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/sunny-hostin-scared-trump-flags-american-flags-not-july-4\/\"> disturbed<\/a> by American flags, saying they send \u201ca message of white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This type of rhetoric shouldn\u2019t be surprising. We\u2019re told that America itself is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/how-we-rise\/2020\/06\/11\/systemic-racism-and-america-today\/\">systemically racist<\/a> thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/30\/robin-diangelo-cashes-in-on-her-audiences-white-guilt-calls-them-all-racist-again-in-new-book\/\">inherently racist white people<\/a>. Perhaps this is why many <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRubinBlogger\/status\/1425899248269266947?s=20\">leftists<\/a>, including white ones like<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMFlint\/status\/1426028604723445762?s=20\"> Michael Moore<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiMcR\/status\/1426344581260627968?s=20\"> celebrated<\/a> when the 2020 Census data found that America\u2019s white population<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/census-race-population-redistricting-changes-11628714807\"> shrank for the first time ever<\/a>, calling it the \u201cbest day ever in U.S. history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1366820252252733446\"> white babies<\/a> have been deemed racist, and not just by the critical race theorists whom<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/26\/democrats-rapidly-losing-ground-in-fight-over-critical-race-theory\/\"> most of this country<\/a>, including people across races, find repulsive, but by Arizona\u2019s Department of Education. The term has lost meaning, now used as a weapon to indict both our country and an entire population on account of an original sin that stains them from birth.<\/p>\n<h2>What Isn\u2019t Racist?<\/h2>\n<p>We know these allegations of racism are in bad faith, if for no other reason because legitimate instances of prejudice get completely ignored when noticing the victims would hinder the left\u2019s incessant efforts to divide Americans by their racial backgrounds. <\/p>\n<p>But what does racism even mean to the left? Many claim that racism is the mixture of<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/a-universalist-in-an-identitarian-age\/racism-equals-prejudice-plus-power-so-only-white-people-can-be-racist-f2906dba851\"> prejudice plus power<\/a>, implying that those the left considers powerful can\u2019t be victims of racism while those without power can\u2019t be perpetrators. This is the conventional wisdom in <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/record\/1998-07453-002\">academia<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I put this redefinition to the test with an extreme example when I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tNTeSHDCmUI&#038;t=66s\">interviewed a protester<\/a>, asking \u201cIf someone said \u2018we should kill white people,\u2019 would that be racist?\u201d She flatly responded, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve found our answer. One phenomenon has been granted complete immunity: blatant, ugly, system-wide racial animosity is not just tolerable but <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/28\/elites-racial-animus-is-resulting-in-targeted-harassment-of-white-people\/\">encouraged<\/a> by our elite class, so long as you choose politically expedient targets. Everyone knows which targets those are.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-racism movement doesn\u2019t reject, but fosters anti-white racism. There\u2019s a built-in defense too. If the proles push back, just call it \u201cwhite fragility,\u201d or, better yet, call them racists! This isn\u2019t merely a double standard \u2014 it\u2019s an exercise of regime power.<\/p>\n<p>When racism is haphazardly alleged against our country in its totality and an entire group of people, we can be certain the term is now typically devoid of serious meaning, existing only as a rhetorical bludgeon that deserves to be met with derision. Only when we ignore the left\u2019s attempts at manipulation can we reveal an undeniable truth: they aren\u2019t interested in ridding our country of racial hatred, they\u2019re committed to repurposing it.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Spencer Lindquist is an intern at The Federalist and a senior at Pepperdine University where he studies Political Science and Rhetoric and Leadership and serves as Pepperdine\u2019s College Republicans President. You can follow him on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpencerLndqst\">@SpencerLndqst<\/a> and reach him at LSpencerLindquist@gmail.com.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been tuned into politics for the last several years, you\u2019ve no doubt heard a lot about racism. 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