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by Reid Fitzsimons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My wife and I moved from NY to South Alabama in 2008,primarily for reasons related to operating our small charity project in Honduras.\u00a0 During our almost four years there (about half in Alabama, half in Honduras) I encountered one true died in the wool racist, a relic of about 80 who happened to be our neighbor.\u00a0 Chatting with him for the first time by the mailbox about lawnmowers he spontaneously declared, \u201cI don\u2019t care much for Afro-Americans (actually he used another word).\u201d\u00a0 He continued for a bit, talking about the good times when Afro-Americans (actually he used another word)\u00a0\u2018knew their place,\u201d and so on.\u00a0To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: Now That\u2019s<\/em> a Racist!\u00a0 My wife, who had never met a real racist,wasn\u2019t there at the time so later I introduced her, forewarned.\u00a0 The old guy didn\u2019t disappoint- it was like going to some museum of bigotry and watching a real time exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course that was 2008, a quaint time before countless millions were declared to be racists by progressive fiat.\u00a0 What exactly happened in the past 10 years to make so many millions of previously benign Americans become vile hate-filled bigots?\u00a0 First we need to understand what it means to be a racist in the progressive, post-modern sense, and we can do this metaphorically.\u00a0 Say an overtired kid has a tantrum when he\u2019s told it\u2019s bedtime and, as part of his personal resistance movement, yells to his mother that that she is a\u201cpoopy.\u201d\u00a0 Dad also tells him it\u2019s bedtime but, seeing a little humor, asks him exactly what is a poopy.\u00a0 The kid, crying more vigorously now, yells,\u201cYou are a poopy too,\u201d but off to bed he goes off and is quickly asleep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously in this scenario the little tyke couldn\u2019t be expected to explain himself rationally; he was fully controlled by the emotion of the moment.\u00a0 A \u201cpoopy\u201d was simply the creation of an immature mind directed at someone who didn\u2019t give him immediate gratification.\u00a0 Fortunately his parents didn\u2019t have to worry that their lives would be damaged by a silly and nonsensical accusation from an upset child.\u00a0It would be a worrisome world indeed if immature and self-centered beings could hurl insults and accusations they couldn\u2019t actually define and truly injure people with them.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of ideas here should be self-evident.\u00a0 First, if words don\u2019t have agreed upon meanings or those meanings are constantly in flux, then language ceases to be a means of communication.\u00a0 Second, the term \u201cracist\u201d is not particularly difficult to define or understand, at least for a grown-up whose intellect is consistent with their chronological age.\u00a0 However, for people whose age indicates adulthood but emotional functioning is more like our cranky little guy above,then a \u201cracist\u201d simply means a \u201cpoopy,\u201d which doesn\u2019t really mean anything at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One might ask how did we devolve into this linguistic and emotional chaos?\u00a0 The answer to this is multi-faceted but certainly the absurd wealth we possess plays a major part.\u00a0 Never before have so many people been so totally removed from the requirements of sustenance: kids having to getup and feed the chickens or milk the cows before school, as recent as my generation, is as far away as another universe.\u00a0 Our wealth is such that an endless abundance of food, technology,entertainment, etc is simply \u201cthere,\u201d and when something is redundantly ubiquitous one needn\u2019t consider its source.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picture, for example, our socialist antifa hero who, after an evening of smashing car windows, peels off his sweaty but stylish balaclava and takes a well-deserved Starbucks break, enjoying a $5 Serious Strawberry Frappuccino.\u00a0 With satisfaction of as job well done he uses his I-Phone 10 to log-on to the news and hears kudos from the college president and local progressive mayor for standing up for tolerance-another conservative speaker has been run out of town!\u00a0 Never once does he contemplate the enormous and complex transportation and logistical chain that brought together the components of his tasty beverage and the innovation, built on the back of decades and centuries of prior innovation, that allows for his phone, let alone the auto glass he bravely destroyed.\u00a0 If someone suggested it all happened because of capitalism and hard work, he\u2019d simply yell, \u201cyou are like Hitler\u201d and storm off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While excessive wealth and its associated elitism is perhaps a foundational basis for the proliferation outrage, hate, and name calling,there are other significant factors as well.\u00a0Broken families underlie much of our societal dysfunction but this applies largely to the non-elite, keeping in mind that feminist dogma has long rejected the necessity of fathers; feminism is an elitist phenomenon and those that can afford the nannies and parent substitutes can get by just fine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0I propose it\u2019s the intact progressive minded families and the supporting institutions (i.e.schools and universities, celebritydom of all stripes) that have shifted the paradigm from setting limits for kids, meaningful discipline, and a sense of respect to child- centered, self-esteem driven self-absorption.\u00a0 Here is a blatant example- I once witnessed\u00a0 (for real) a boy of perhaps10 hit another child of 12 or so in the chest with a branch.\u00a0 The mother\u2019s response was, \u201cWhat a good boy,you could have hit him in head but you only hit him in the chest.\u201d\u00a0 The mother\u2019s overriding concern was that her child \u201clike\u201d her and, of course, once a parent abrogates their obligation to be a parent as compared to a friend, the chances of the kid growing up to be a respectful and successful adult greatly diminish.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When wealth is so great it ceases being primarily a means of reasonable comfort and security and becomes frivolous, and frivolity is inconsistent with a deeper or more meaningful significance to life.\u00a0 In this void we find guilt and indolence, a sense that there must be something more, but to find this would take actual effort, perhaps at the unacceptable expense of our material comfort.\u00a0 Hence we have found a work-around: Yes,there unfairness, inequality, and suffering in the world and at some level I would like to help, but doing something actually useful would take me out of my comfort zone, and perhaps cost me money, time and effort.\u00a0 Therefore I can assuage my own inadequacies by feeling, or at least feigning, outrage, and by projecting it at people who don\u2019t possess the enormous compassion and empathy I know is within me.\u00a0 I am a wonderful and righteous person, and you are a racist, Nazi, bigot, homophobe, transgenderphobe, Islamophobe, misogynist, or Fascist.\u00a0 By hating you I am absolved of my guilt, now off to the wine-tasting fund raiser for Planned Parenthood, where I know everyone will be wonderful, just like me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling people \u201cracists\u201d is so common these days that it has become meaningless, which is actually a problem because there are<\/em> true racists who can cause misery for others, but the reality of their malicious beliefs becomes diluted- putting someone who doesn\u2019t embrace illegal immigration at the same level as a Cross-burning Klan member may be satisfying on a transitory basis but at the same time it diminishes the vileness of the Klan.Whatever the reason(s) progressive leftists cannot control their self-righteous anger and angst, the recipients of their vitriol,which presently includes conservatives, Republicans, believing Christians,white males, and white females who aren\u2019t progressive leftists (and, curiously,sometimes non-white people who reject progressivism), can take solace in the knowledge that the social justice activists, whether college students, \u201cantifa\u201dmorons, or wealthy Ivy League professors, are simply calling you a \u201cpoopy,\u201dwhich has no significance beyond the emotions of an overtired child.\u00a0 Unfortunately, while the four year-old kid will wake up happy and refreshed, the \u201cwoke\u201d activist will wake up angry and offended, ready to hurl insults at people who don\u2019t agree with them on all <\/em>matters of life, politics, culture, and philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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