Coffee in the rain…
Racism.
Most are tiptoeing around it like it isn’t real and yet it’s the root cause of xenophobia including antisemitism. Beyond ignorance and selfishness that caused so many not to vote we can no longer ignore most who voted for fascism didn’t prefer it because of the price of eggs. They preferred it to a black woman.
Racism.
Most are tiptoeing around it like it isn’t real and yet it’s the root cause of xenophobia including antisemitism. Beyond ignorance and selfishness that caused so many not to vote we can no longer ignore most who voted for fascism didn’t prefer it because of the price of eggs. They preferred it to a black woman.
Eddie Glaude, a Princeton professor who often participates in TV panels, put the finger on the wound to the disbelief of the white panelists and anchor, Stephanie Ruhl, herself the epitome of whiteness. I have been saying for as long as I can remember all these people like the orange turd because he gives them license to be openly racist. That’s why. We can’t keep ignoring it and it must be shouted from rooftops until everyone understands it.
In a sense we don’t have to go back to 1950s America. Plenty of white people never left it. All they needed was an excuse to act like it and when that thing wobbled his way into politics they got onboard. It was their chance to be who they are. This is our country, my thriends. And it’s also the reason other forms of hatred and discrimination rise in it. The same environment that allows racism and misogyny allows antisemitism. The license to hate is broad.
As long as we keep ignoring these things, pretending they don’t exist, we can’t start truly eradicating them from our lives. All we are doing is allowing for hate to spread unchecked. I will give you an example: nobody in the MSM ever asks the staunch pro Palestine advocates why they are so outraged by Israel’s existence but none of them seem to be bothered by the fact most of Palestine is “occupied” by Jordan. Nobody mentions it. Ever.
What’s wrong with the Palestine beyond the river to the East? Why must Palestine be free only from the river to the sea? Why is it okay it’s not free beyond the river to where Arabs “occupy” it? I am going to say what needs saying and declare these propal simps only problem is there are no Jews in Jordan. That’s why. That’s why they ignore it and that’s why the root of their “just cause” is purely antisemitic. Hate is the cause of all our problems.
All the philosophies and ideologies based on class warfare missed this point. Populism works just great when the strong men who drive the masses are rich oligarchs not because the masses don’t know they are despicable but because they hate the same people they do and they allow them to do it freely. They are the right kind of despicable. As despicable as they are. Populism is no longer driven by class but by hate. Maybe it always was.
Maybe these people are not voting against their best interests at all but in fact voting for their true interests. We need to acknowledge that if we are to fight against it. Sure they will soon find out how wrong they are and just like the propal mobs will start being rounded up and jailed and the magats feel the pain in their bones they were allowed to spew their hatred for a bit and they all believed it would last. For some it will.
Those who share the right kind of hate, those who are the same kind of despicable as the ones in power, those are doing their victory lap and telling women their bodies belong to them and black people they are going back to the cotton fields. Soon they will openly tell Jews they will be put in camps too. As for the others, who were stupid enough to think their hatred alliance would last, they will find themselves in those camps too. They are despicable but not the sanctioned kind.
We are in for a very rough ride. Choices were made and consequences will follow. I know some still put their faith in our institutions but the truth is they are mostly gone. What’s left of them will either be ignored by executive power or, like the Supreme Court, bow down to it. We are on our own, my thriends. Resistance is the only way out. Perseverance is the only answer. Stay strong in your convictions and fight.
We often say love trumps hate but in order for that to be true love must be unconditional and hate must be faced for what it is. We can’t tolerate the intolerable any longer, no matter where intolerance is or what it looks like. Hate is on the loose and we have to accept that as the overwhelming phenomenon it is and stop saying it’s not as bad as it really is or finding excuses for it because it happens to be disguised as free speech.
The fact remains we live in a country where most people’s best interest is to hate. As long as they are free to do so all else doesn’t matter. Fascism may rise and eggs may be expensive just as long as women go back to the kitchen, black people back to the cotton fields, Jews put away in camps and yes, dear Muslims, you are fucked too. But free Palestine, hey? Fuck all these people. All they care about is the misery of others to forget their own.
Why can’t we live in peace? Why is there no Justice left? Why can’t we just “get along”? I’ll tell you why. Because hate trumps love when love is misguided and weak. Because we have for too long failed to speak up against it for fear of hurting other people’s feelings. Political correctness is not saying approved words; being righteous is not recycling cans or driving electric cars. It’s acting decisively and without fear against injustice and hate.
When we are weak confronting these situations and look for ways to appease intolerance because they wear flip flops instead of black riding boots and they wave Palestinian flags instead of blood flags with swastikas this is what we get: hate running wild. There’s no cherry picking when it comes to hate and racism. This is why so many of us voted against what we wish for. We wished they weren’t real but they are and they won. What are you going to do about it?
Do not give up. ✊
* Link to the Eddie Glaude’s moment mentioned. HERE.
