Bud_Spencer
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A superb column by Andrew Sullivan on Substack, one of the last refuges of free speech on the net:
The Anti-Semitism In Anti-Whiteness
"So here we go! Anti-Semitism is seen as not racism, because for Whoopi, and critical theorists, “racism” is defined as an essentially Euro-American social construction, which didn’t exist before the colonial era, and only applies to powerful whites (and fellow travelers) vis-a-vis powerless blacks. Racism is not, for them, a universal, instinctual, tribal, evolution-rooted suspicion of different-looking others that is always with us, and can happen anywhere. It is solely rather the deliberate, historically contingent oppression of the non-white by colonial “white supremacy.” However much truth this contains about American history (and it does contain a lot of it), it’s a terribly parochial view that misses a huge amount in the world, throughout history, and in America....
"And what moral difference is there between saying that Jews bear collective guilt through the ages for an original sin (the crucifixion) they didn’t commit, and that American whites, even if they became citizens yesterday, bear collective guilt for an original sin they too didn’t commit (slavery)? It’s the same inference of racial guilt-by-association. And it is what the woke are teaching white toddlers at this very moment: that skin color alone places the burden of repairing the wounds of history on them before anyone else....
"But in a multicultural, multiracial society as complex as ours, the cross currents, the nuances and the complexities — especially in a population becoming more diverse and inter-married than ever — simply cannot be reduced to “always-oppressor/white” and “always-oppressed/black.” There is good and bad, racist and antiracist, in every human soul and in every demographic group. When you ignore that fundamental truth, you end up where we are: missing so much of complicated human reality that you actually excuse the Nazis — yes, the Nazis — for their racism."
The Anti-Semitism In Anti-Whiteness
"So here we go! Anti-Semitism is seen as not racism, because for Whoopi, and critical theorists, “racism” is defined as an essentially Euro-American social construction, which didn’t exist before the colonial era, and only applies to powerful whites (and fellow travelers) vis-a-vis powerless blacks. Racism is not, for them, a universal, instinctual, tribal, evolution-rooted suspicion of different-looking others that is always with us, and can happen anywhere. It is solely rather the deliberate, historically contingent oppression of the non-white by colonial “white supremacy.” However much truth this contains about American history (and it does contain a lot of it), it’s a terribly parochial view that misses a huge amount in the world, throughout history, and in America....
"And what moral difference is there between saying that Jews bear collective guilt through the ages for an original sin (the crucifixion) they didn’t commit, and that American whites, even if they became citizens yesterday, bear collective guilt for an original sin they too didn’t commit (slavery)? It’s the same inference of racial guilt-by-association. And it is what the woke are teaching white toddlers at this very moment: that skin color alone places the burden of repairing the wounds of history on them before anyone else....
"But in a multicultural, multiracial society as complex as ours, the cross currents, the nuances and the complexities — especially in a population becoming more diverse and inter-married than ever — simply cannot be reduced to “always-oppressor/white” and “always-oppressed/black.” There is good and bad, racist and antiracist, in every human soul and in every demographic group. When you ignore that fundamental truth, you end up where we are: missing so much of complicated human reality that you actually excuse the Nazis — yes, the Nazis — for their racism."
