"In America, I can do anything I want and I teach that to my children. And the person who teaches my little pecan-colored kids that they're somehow oppressed based on the color of their skin would be absolutely wrong and absolutely at war with me."pic.twitter.com/3yeivgXr3L
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 17, 2022
Bravo!
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
It’s obvious to all, that White people are the target of the political left using race as weapon. The real tragedy though is the group most harmed by such games is the Black “community” (Their choice of identity) who go along with the abusive politics, reducing themselves to mere chattel of the political state and worse, merely a part of a community who must believe whatever any similarly pigmented leader says…as in “my people” etc. How more can they degrade their own precious individual humanity–made in the image of an almighty God–than to have them willingly not resist such evil?
I hate it when they let white supremacists speak at school board meetings.
Don L. Don’t knock it. It’s actually quite brilliant. As a white liberal, convince the world that racism is uniquely a white phenomenon. That racism is the one all defining sin that even Jesus can’t forgive (and watch many Christian leaders approve this message). Then turn it around and apply it to your own race and invite all other ethnic groups to join you. Right or wrong, you have to admit it’s clever. And from what we see, quite effective.
And from what we see, quite effective.
Only if the proponents wish to lose elections.
Great talk….”racism only exists in Washington DC and in the media.”
Ripping into CRT and Transgender horse pucky. Give that man a cigar.
“Taking back the wheel.”
Amen.
I’ve posted it before on Dave G’s blog, I’m going to do so again here. But it’s taking a passage of CS Lewis’ “Dangers of National Repentence” and replacing instances of “nation” with “race.”
“And repentance presupposes condemnation. The first and fatal charm of [racial] repentance is, therefore, the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins to the congenial one of bewailing but, first, of denouncing the conduct of others. If it were clear to the young that this is what he is doing, no doubt he would remember the law of charity. Unfortunately the very terms in which [racial] repentance is recommended to him conceal its true nature. By a dangerous figure of speech, he calls the [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 [racial] sins’; what they mean is, ‘Let us attribute to our neighbour (even our Christian neighbour) whenever we disagree with him, every abominable motive that Satan can suggest to our fancy.’”
“I don’t let my sons rough her up. I’m certainly not going to let your sons do it.”
Nate, I can’t help but notice that many white liberals who push the anti-racism ideal, with righting the wrongs of our racist nation by more or less hindering young up and coming white Americans, are often quite established in their own careers and positions.
The left may be losing elections now, but they have also successfully gotten almost every major company, government institution and school to implement DIE policies that would have been unthinkable even 10 years ago. The new generations are being brought up to think all of this is normal. Even if this is an election losing issue now, it may not be forever.
For an important comparison, consider how gay marriage only became something that mainstream politicians could endorse in 2012. Even in 2008 it was too much of a political suicide move for Obama to touch it. But now politicians who support gay marriage routinely win elections, and it is very possible for a republican to lose an election based on too strong of opposition to it. In about a decade we went from “endorse this and you’ll never get elected” to “everyone must accept it.” And the support was built up the exact same way they are now building up support for their critical race theory.
It can be stopped if we fight now, and some conservatives are fighting. But the reason that conservatives have been such losers in the long term is that they too often assume that extreme positions will never win elections consistently, until they do and they decide that now it’s too much work to oppose them (“this isn’t the hill to die on.”)
The control freaks are using the word community. To me, based on their behavior, the word collectivization is more accurate.
The left may be losing elections now, but they have also successfully gotten almost every major company, government institution and school to implement DIE policies that would have been unthinkable even 10 years ago. The new generations are being brought up to think all of this is normal. Even if this is an election losing issue now, it may not be forever.
Then we will win on new issues, although I think that identity politics has reached its sell by date. When major companies embrace something, it usually means that it is losing, or about to lose, its ability to attract among the general population. Big business-always seizing on the big new idea of the last generation.
That father was impressive. I hope his impassioned statement gets a play on all conservative radio and TV shows. As usual the left, liberal networks will not.
is that they too often assume that extreme positions will never win elections consistently,
This has not happened in the last 40-odd years in national politics and I’d challenge you to find an example in state-level politics. One problem with starboard politics is that it is fixated on tax rates to the exclusion of every other issue. Another is that gatekeeper positions are commonly occupied by careerist grifters like Bit*h McConnell (conjoined to jellyfish like Richard Burr). The wreckage of the state systems of higher education occurred because Republican state legislators have been unimaginative and asleep at the wheel.
This has less to do with race and more to do with institutions breaking down the natural and rightful authority which parents have over their children.
There are probably many more like this man who don’t have the gusto to speak up.
And it’s not just race that this applies to, it’s any minority or group which they can prey on to make them adopt a mentality from a very young age, to be, reliant than than self-reliant. To be weak, not strong. To be victims.
Off topic- we have certain school districts in Victory’s, who are telling class teachers to refer to the child’s caregiver as “grownups” and not “mum and dad”. So “give this permission slip to the grown up at home” not “give this permission slip to mum or dad at home”. This is done under the guise of being “inclusive” to those few children which don’t have a mum and dad raising them. But essentially, they are stripping EVERY child the title by which they call their parents in order to not hurt the feelings of children who are missing a parent, in foster care or have family members looking after them. This is wrong.
It’s such an insidious way of breaking down the AUTHORITY which parents have over their own children.
It used to be a given that parents know best. Now it seems parents have to fight for the right to parent their own children. And it becomes increasingly exhausting and distracting for parents.
Well done to that father.
Victoria (not Victory’s)
CAM.
They just played his talk in it’s entirety on Drew Mariani show, Relevant Radio 3:45pm today.
Air time on all talk radio platforms would be great.
With the way “woke” educators act it’s as if they are declaring the right of eminent domain over the children. Nationalizing the schoolchildren as it were. A human version of Kelo.
Schoolchildren were nationalized when we adopted the Prussian model of education about a century ago.
If this wakes people up and gets them to take their kids of public schools good, but that was something that people should have been doing for the entirety of the lifespan of anyone posting here.
Schoolchildren were nationalized when we adopted the Prussian model of education about a century ago.
Rubbish. The problems in schools are a consequence of the teachers’ colleges interacting with the legal profession and have, for the most part, emerged in the last 60 years. The culture of the teachers’ colleges is a very bottom up pathology which needs to be broken by the state legislatures.