Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, nails it:
In America, class warfare is often disguised as culture war, and culture war is often cloaked by talk of race. But underneath it all, the class warfare is still there. Whether accidentally or intentionally, America’s upper classes seem to wind up harming the working class and small businesses, always in the name of some high-minded cause.
On immigration, for example, the go-to move is to call people who object to open borders racists and nativists. But what’s behind it? As Biden economic adviser Jared Bernstein commented: “A tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers . . . One equally surefire way to short-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group’s wages go up.” Immigration as a way of keeping working-class wages down.
Likewise, efforts to defund police or de-police neighborhoods are treated as anti-racism, but their actual, predictable effect is to make poor and working-class neighborhoods much less safe, in order to make wealthy woke activists feel good about themselves. Similarly, Anthony Lukas’ classic book, “Common Ground,” told the story of how wealthy white activists placed most of the burden of desegregating Boston’s public schools on poor black and white families, while those behind the policies retreated to leafy suburbs, far from the problems they had created, or made worse.
Go here to read the rest. It is no accident, as the Marxists used to say, that the main proponents of racist anti-racism are themselves usually lily white. This is an excuse by upper class and professional whites to pour vials of wrath upon the middle and lower class whites they despise, and to feel virtuous as they indulge their hate and bigotry. An excuse to attack those you hate anyway is always a powerful motivator.
“This is an excuse by upper class and professional whites to pour vials of wrath upon the middle and lower class whites they despise, and to feel virtuous as they indulge their hate and bigotry.” DM
Oh the real estate they forfeit.
We have our daily bread.
They neglect it in favor of their daily bread which is stamped with Presidents likenesses.
Ours is not stamped. It is in itself the bread of life. The bread come down from heaven.
They discard it.
We live by it.
They forfeited their inheritance
and invested heavily in what can’t save them.
Oh the real estate they gave up.
Let will not rejoice on the last day.
They…[ not let..] typo.
See the controversies at the Dalton School. That’s an example of teachers’ college graduates pouring vitriol on their affluent / wealthy clientele, with the connivance of the board (which has conflicts of interest).
Fix immigration? Fix low wages? Solve racial issues? Class issues? Loose millionaire SJ warrior protection?
Nah, Democrats especially won’t fix issues they can run on. You can’t run on an issue if you fix it.
What Lewis said, updated.
Unfortunately the very terms in which national repentance is recommended to him conceal its true nature. By a dangerous figure of speech, he calls [race] not ‘they’ but ‘we’. And since, as penitents, we are not encouraged to be charitable to our own sins, nor to give ourselves the benefit of any doubt, a [race] which is called ‘we’ is ipso facto placed beyond the sphere of charity or even of justice. You can say anything you please about it. You can indulge in the popular vice of detraction without restraint, and yet feel all the time that you are practising contrition. A group of such young penitents will say, ‘Let us repent our national sins’; what they mean is, ‘Let us attribute to our neighbour (even our Christian neighbour) in the Cabinet. whenever we disagree with him, every abominable motive that Satan can suggest to our fancy.’
C.S. “Jack” Lewis, “Dangers of National Repentance,” The Guardian, 15 March 1940!
Cited from God in the Dock (Eerdmans: 1970) 189.
Woke SJW behavior fits the slang definition for power trip “A sustained and often aggressive exercise of power over others in order to boost one’s stature or feelings of self-worth.” I think that it is getting to the point of paranoia.
These are garbage people who are forcing on us garbage ideas. Act accordingly.