Victor Davis Hanson on Joe Biden's Racialism

[Sh1ne0n67]

"Finally, we should remember America has always been a fragile country. After all, it is history’s first successful and longest-lasting multiracial constitutional government—the logical reification of the ancient ideas of human political equality, proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

"The idea of America has always tried to overcome innate, deeper, and darker human impulses, especially the tic to identify by race, religion, and tribe. That is the historical virus that once unleashed, infects and destroys a society. Witness most recently Rwanda, Iraq, or the former Yugoslavia.

"The ancient human pathology to identify by superficial appearance—to see race, for example, as essential rather than incidental to one’s essence—destroys democracies. It must consciously always be repressed, not cultivated to frighten people to support agendas that are otherwise failing them.

"Joe Biden is said to be an inert puppet of left-wing masters. Perhaps. But more likely his cognitive challenges have stripped away his political savvy and left him in the raw, revealing his real essence, a racialist of the first order, who will use any tragedy to salvage what has become the worst two years of a presidency in modern memory. And most of the people now know it."

Joe Biden and Racial Demagoguery​

Joe Biden’s cognitive challenges have stripped away his political savvy and left him in the raw, revealing his real essence—a racialist of the first order.


https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/22/joe-biden-and-racial-demagoguery/
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[Chobham]

Now comes the truly funny part (not ha ha funny but peculiar funny). The democrats, who are almost solely responsible for pushing tribalism, are the ones claiming that only they can save democracy.

 

[Sh1ne0n67]

I know. Hysterical. They celebrate the browning of America but blame Replacement Theory on Conservatives.

Now we know what the term "Dark MAGA" actually means. It's a dog whistle of misdirection...
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[ll74]

"Browning of America"

¯\(°_o)/¯

 

[phrodeau]

VDH is a well-known troll, race-baiter and misogynist. He fits right in here.

 

[Sh1ne0n67]

*chuckle*

#2 Discredit the Opposition. Smearing or defaming an opponent is considered fair game by the left. The truth is irrelevant with this tactic; leftists merely seek to ruin reputations with this approach.

#4 Label. Calling someone a racist, some sort of "phobe," an insurrectionist, a seditionist, a Nazi, or any other inflammatory adjective is commonplace. The Progressives like lumping people into groups and assigning negative qualities to those groups. They do this without even a hint of irony, that these are the same tactics used by tyrants. If a label doesn't exist, they are not above making one up.

The Democrat Party Playbook
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[ll74]

These days you can sidestep being called a racist by calling other people racialists or by calling yourself a race realist.

That way you can still believe your race is superior and that other races are ruining your country without having that stigma attached to it.

Note - other people will still hate you, but you can continue to blame them for it.

 

[phrodeau]

*chuckle*

#2 Discredit the Opposition. Smearing or defaming an opponent is considered fair game by the left. The truth is irrelevant with this tactic; leftists merely seek to ruin reputations with this approach.

#4 Label. Calling someone a racist, some sort of "phobe," an insurrectionist, a seditionist, a Nazi, or any other inflammatory adjective is commonplace. The Progressives like lumping people into groups and assigning negative qualities to those groups. They do this without even a hint of irony, that these are the same tactics used by tyrants. If a label doesn't exist, they are not above making one up.

The Democrat Party Playbook
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See post #1.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

*chuckle*

#2 Discredit the Opposition. <--- Easy to do when the facts are all there.

#4 Label. Calling racists racists isn't labeling anything.

#127 Shaddup. STFU, AJ, ya whiny bitch.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

AJ is an uncle Tonto.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

You can tell that republicans arent racists by how many POC they elected. The dems and the proud boys are the real racists.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

 

[icanhelp1]

*chuckle*

#2 Discredit the Opposition. Smearing or defaming an opponent is considered fair game by the left. The truth is irrelevant with this tactic; leftists merely seek to ruin reputations with this approach.

#4 Label. Calling someone a racist, some sort of "phobe," an insurrectionist, a seditionist, a Nazi, or any other inflammatory adjective is commonplace. The Progressives like lumping people into groups and assigning negative qualities to those groups. They do this without even a hint of irony, that these are the same tactics used by tyrants. If a label doesn't exist, they are not above making one up.

The Democrat Party Playbook
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The plan to destroy America: the rest of the story

"1. We must first make America a bilingual/bicultural country. History shows ... that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. ?

Scholar Seymour Martin Lipset put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy."

2. I would then invent "multiculturalism" and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal ... there are no cultural differences that are important ... and the black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out-of-bounds"

 

[icanhelp1]

The plan to destroy America: the rest of the story

I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white-bread, too self-satisfied, too rich ? then let?s destroy America. It is not that hard to do.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that "an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide." So here is my plan:


1. We must first make America a bilingual/bicultural country. History shows ... that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. ?

Scholar Seymour Martin Lipset put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension and tragedy."

2. I would then invent "multiculturalism" and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal ... there are no cultural differences that are important ... and the black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out-of-bounds.


3. We can make the United States a "Hispanic Quebec" without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "? the apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethno-centrically and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together."

4. I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with a salad bowl metaphor ? I would make our fastest-growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. ?

5. I would then get the big foundations and Big Business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of victimology. ... I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.

 

[icanhelp1]

6. I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would "celebrate diversity." ? It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other ? when they are not killing each other.


A diverse peaceful or stable society is against most historicalprecedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together, and we can take advantage of this myopia. ... Dorf?s World History tells us the [ancient] Greeks believed they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature and worshiped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games in honor of Zeus and venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all of these bonds together were not strong enough to overcome two factors ? local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions ? .

7. Then I would place all these subjects off-limits and make them taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to "heretic" in the 16th century that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like "racist," and "xenophobe" halt argument and conversation. I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws.

I would develop a mantra: because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good.

8. Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson?s book, "Mexifornia." This book is dangerous. It exposes my plan to destroy America. ? This guy is on to my plan.

By Richard Lamm 3 term Democrat Governor Colorado

 

[Comshaw]

*chuckle*

#2 Discredit the Opposition. Smearing or defaming an opponent is considered fair game by the left. The truth is irrelevant with this tactic; leftists merely seek to ruin reputations with this approach.

#4 Label. Calling someone a racist, some sort of "phobe," an insurrectionist, a seditionist, a Nazi, or any other inflammatory adjective is commonplace. The Progressives like lumping people into groups and assigning negative qualities to those groups. They do this without even a hint of irony, that these are the same tactics used by tyrants. If a label doesn't exist, they are not above making one up.

The Democrat Party Playbook
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Democrat born. Democrat bred. Libertarian led (by Democrats).

If anyone remembers it, this is an old child's game now perpetrated by the likes of the OP: "I am rubber you are glue, it bounces off me and sticks to you." In more technical terms, it's a tu quoque (you too) logical fallacy, IE: it takes the heat off someone having to defend their argument, and instead shifts the focus back on to the person making the criticism.

So if you can't defend your premise, if you have no real facts to present or fall back on, you use this tactic.

Comshaw

 

[pecksniff]

The plan to destroy America: the rest of the story

"1. We must first make America a bilingual/bicultural country. History shows ... that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. ?

Switzerland.

 

[oggbashan]

Switzerland.

Is a trilingual country - Swiss-French; Swiss German and Swiss Italian. The French, Germans and Italians think the Swiss talk funny.

 

[pecksniff]

Is a trilingual country - Swiss-French; Swiss German and Swiss Italian. The French, Germans and Italians think the Swiss talk funny.

No doubt they're right.

 

[pecksniff]

The plan to destroy America:

To whom are you attributing this plan?

 

[oggbashan]

No doubt they're right.

In the 1960s I went to a Chinese restaurant in London's Soho with three friends. There was a Swiss nurse who spoke Swiss-French, her fiance who spoke Swiss German and my friend who was studying Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese),

The Chinese speaking friend ordered in Cantonese for all four of us.

As the meal arrived, she was speaking Swiss-French, he was speaking Swiss German and the other two of us were speaking English and none of us needed to translate for each other.

 

[ll74]

In the 1960s I went to a Chinese restaurant in London's Soho with three friends. There was a Swiss nurse who spoke Swiss-French, her fiance who spoke Swiss German and my friend who was studying Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese),

The Chinese speaking friend ordered in Cantonese for all four of us.

As the meal arrived, she was speaking Swiss-French, he was speaking Swiss German and the other two of us were speaking English and none of us needed to translate for each other.

I expect most trumpies in this forum would throw a tantrum in that situation and yell something about the "national language" being English

 

[oggbashan]

I expect most trumpies in this forum would throw a tantrum in that situation and yell something about the "national language" being English

Probably. My eldest daughter has been friendly with a Somali family for more than a decade. Among the family, they speak a Somali dialect but they have learned Egyptian Arabic, French and now English.

When my daughter visits them (or they visit her) they speak their local dialect and my daughter speaks English yet they understand each other.

I tutored their eldest daughter on Shakespeare's The Tempest for her English Literature A level. (Pre-university examination.) She passed with the highest grade despite English being her fourth language.

 

[pecksniff]

They celebrate the browning of America but blame Replacement Theory on Conservatives.

You need to think a lot harder about that sentence.

 

[icanhelp1]

I expect most trumpies in this forum would throw a tantrum in that situation and yell something about the "national language" being English

English has been the predominant language for the United States pretty much since its inception. There were attempts to pass a law declaring english our official language but having inept legislative bodies they failed. Up until 2018 there wasn't a dire need to protect it. Unfortunately with the uncontrolled migration illegal and overextended legal migration that's no longer the case. There is an effort by progressive globalist to surrender our nation status to the world. A country without borders is not a country at all.