{"id":1969803,"date":"2023-07-11T15:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-is-losing-its-race-war-thats-why-its-distorting-the-definition-of-racism\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:08:13","slug":"the-left-is-losing-its-race-war-thats-why-its-distorting-the-definition-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-is-losing-its-race-war-thats-why-its-distorting-the-definition-of-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left&#8217;s Race War is Fading, Leading to Distorted &#8216;Racism&#8217; Definition."},"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%2Fthe-left-is-losing-its-race-war-thats-why-its-distorting-the-definition-of-racism%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=1969803&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>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An everlasting truism of the political left is that when they hold an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-natsec-official-evidence-for-theory-that-pandemic-came-from-lab-far-outweighs-natural-outbreak\/\" title=\"Ex-NatSec Official: Evidence For Theory That Pandemic Came From Lab \u2018Far Outweighs\u2019 Natural Outbreak\">indefensible position<\/a>, they pretend everything is more complicated than it actually is, and, therefore, it\u2019s your fault for failing to understand the complexities of the world. So shut up and just let them do what they need to do!<\/p>\n<p><em>You think crime is addressed with more policing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-u-s-senate-acquits-trump-seven-republicans-vote-guilty\/\" title=\"BREAKING: U.S. Senate Acquits Trump; Seven Republicans Vote Guilty\">criminal prosecutions<\/a>? How naive! It\u2019s not so simple! This is an issue that requires time and new solutions!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is no truer example of that reality than the way they talk about \u201cracism.\u201d The Supreme Court just ruled that it\u2019s unconstitutional for institutions in higher education to discriminate against an applicant <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/30\/affirmative-action-is-another-nonsense-leftist-position-weve-been-conditioned-to-take-seriously\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">based on his race<\/a>. What has been congenially known as \u201caffirmative action\u201d is, by definition, racial unfairness.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing full well that defending the kind of discrimination America erased 50 years ago is untenable, the left has once again attempted to take a very simple concept and distort it beyond recognition so that, hopefully, everyone will be too confused to even argue about it.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post contributor Theodore Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/07\/11\/affirmative-action-model-minority-myth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote Tuesday<\/a> that the Court\u2019s decision didn\u2019t eliminate yet another form of toxic discrimination but exacerbated existing racial tensions by reinforcing the idea of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-is-losing-its-race-war-thats-why-its-distorting-the-definition-of-racism\/\" title=\"The Left's Race War is Fading, Leading to Distorted 'Racism' Definition.\">supposed \u201cmodel minority\u201d \u2014 ethnic minorities<\/a> who assimilate to the broader (white) population. The Court\u2019s \u201cportrayal of Asian Americans as model assimilators is neither a compliment, nor is it proof that structural racism is an artifact of the past,\u201d Johnson wrote. \u201cIt serves only to exploit one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/californias-new-ethnic-studies-curriculum-ignores-or-maligns-jews-trashes-capitalism\/\" title=\"California\u2019s New Ethnic Studies Curriculum Ignores Or Maligns Jews, Trashes Capitalism\">minority group<\/a>, to condemn others and to argue against accounting for a people\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wow, the ruling did all that? Here I am thinking it\u2019s a good thing that schools can no longer deny access to an applicant because he\u2019s not a specific race. Little did we all know that, <em>actually<\/em>, the ruling perpetuated a <em>myth<\/em> for the purpose of pitting Asians against blacks in some type of Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the lesson, Theodore!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s garbage. Racism means one thing \u2014 the belief that a person\u2019s value is contingent upon his skin color. What it doesn\u2019t mean is, \u201cAnything that I think denies me advantages because now I\u2019m expected to follow the same guidelines as everyone else and, by the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-fran-officials-demand-school-board-member-resign-after-she-claimed-asians-use-white-supremacist-thinking-to-get-ahead\/\" title=\"San Fran Officials Demand School Board Member Resign After She Claimed Asians Use \u2018White Supremacist Thinking\u2019 To \u2018Get Ahead\u2019\">model minorities<\/a> are a construct of white supremacy, and the very idea advances my argument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overcomplicating and distorting the very basic, straightforward concept of racism is how we all ended up paraplegics from contorting ourselves trying to understand \u201cequity,\u201d \u201cunconscious bias,\u201d and every other convoluted new term cooked up by the left.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now racist to even expect that it\u2019s enough to say racism is bad. Now you have to dwell on it, consume it, and ultimately accept that the only way to truly absolve yourself of racism is to do whatever people like Johnson say.<\/p>\n<p>But no matter what they say, the word for that isn\u2019t \u201cracism.\u201d It\u2019s submission.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political left often resorts to complexity when defending indefensible positions, blaming others for not grasping the intricacies of the world. So, it&#8217;s best to remain silent and allow them to proceed with their agenda. Concerns about crime are disregarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1969804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}