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No one wins in the race race


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2020 Dec 14, 8:47am   755 views  23 comments

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https://spectator.us/wins-race-identity-biden-administration/

Biden’s picks for cabinet and staff have been scrutinized almost solely in accordance with their ‘diversity’


Which means overt racism against white people, and sexism against men.

...your basic man or woman on the street might have reason to puzzle why it is that in the wake of all this hyper-awareness about race (which the left simultaneously instructs us both does not exist and explains everything), relations between the hues seem only to decay.

In order to redress ‘structural racism’, the state of Oregon (impressively still extant, given the determination of both nature and Portland’s antifa activists to burn it down) has reserved $62 million, out of a total COVID relief fund of $200 million, for black people. Black individuals who’ve suffered losses from government shutdowns can apply for grants of up to $3,000 per family, while black-owned businesses struggling during the pandemic can qualify for relief up to $100,000.

If you’re familiar with America’s north-western demographics, the first peculiarity that leaps from this weighted state benevolence is its disproportion. This is Oregon. What black people? Only 2.9 percent of Oregonians are black. Yet close to a third of the relief fund is to be administered exclusively to this tiny, sanctified sliver of the population. Per capita, black applicants are bequeathed more than 10 times the financial assistance as residents of other races. Isn’t that ‘structural racism’? Furthermore, by fostering resentment in the unanointed, this is a dubious formula for teaching everyone to get along.

Likewise problematic is the fact that 13.3 percent of the state is Latino. Though more than four times more populous than black residents, Hispanic Oregonians don’t qualify for ‘The Oregon Cares Fund for Black Relief and Resiliency’ — as Maria Garcia, owner of Portland’s Revolución Coffee House, has discovered. Although her profits have withered from coronavirus restrictions, Ms Garcia’s application to the Cares Fund was declined because ‘0 percent of its owners identify as Black’. The café owner is now suing in federal court, arguing that a blacks-only fund violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

You’d think that the bald unconstitutionality of apportioning emergency assistance on the basis of race would be cut and dried. Unfortunately, previous Supreme Court rulings — permitting race-based admissions to promote diversity in education and narrowly allowing the use of racial preferences in the awarding of state and federal contracts — have muddied what should have remained clear constitutional waters. In recent decades, the whole foundational American principle of equality under the law has been eroded. So the US now has Bad Racism and Good Racism.

Of course, in the UK, the very expression ‘equality under the law’ draws a stupefied blank. In defiance of this fusty notion that laws should apply without fear or favor to everybody, Britain now preciously ring-fences ‘protected characteristics’ — which means that a completely different set of laws applies to one group as opposed to another. Legally, white straight men live in another country.

This disconcerting entrenchment of racial factionalism as a solution to racial factionalism has also been on display in the coverage of Joe Biden’s appointments-to-be, starting first and foremost with his choice of vice president. The media overwhelmingly celebrated Kamala Harris not for her accomplishments or her politics, but for her sex and race. Biden himself steered the country in an identity-politics direction immediately after he was nominated by declaring that the primary qualification of his VP would be XX chromosomes. Given the fevered Floydian social atmosphere this summer, his subsequent obligation to choose not only a woman but a woman who ‘identifies as black’ was a foregone conclusion from the off.

Post-election, Biden’s picks for cabinet and staff have been scrutinized by media commentators almost solely in accordance with their ‘diversity’: the number of blacks, women, Latinos, gays, etc, and broadcasters keep running tallies of which team is winning. As a stray example among dozens, the Guardian ran a headline in mid-November: ‘Biden’s first staff appointments include five women and four people of color.’ Think-tank Brookings has posted pie charts of previous administrations’ appointees (white, black, Asian, Hispanic, Indian and Arab), the better to keep track of whether Biden will beat his predecessors in the race race. Last week, the NAACP and black Congressional leaders voiced their disappointment that only one of the eight cabinet appointees whom Biden had so far announced was black — despite the fact that black Americans constitute just about exactly one-eighth of the population (if we’re going to be that way — and it seems we are). When Biden’s picks are admired by the New York Times or CNN, they are lauded almost exclusively in terms of his diversity score card.

Broadly, yes, it’s healthy for the government of a racially various country to itself be racially various. And I’m in no position to judge whether any of Biden’s choices for powerful posts who improve his administration’s appearance on a literally cosmetic level are anything other than highly qualified for their jobs. But I am in a position to despair when journalistic colleagues commend these often personally and professionally impressive people purely on the basis of sex or race. Were I appointed deputy chief of staff, I’d be irked to be regarded as merely one more stroke in the female column. Surely distinguished black appointees don’t appreciate being mere strokes in a column, either. ...

We’re stuck in a reductive way of thinking that plonks us in camps pitted against other camps, and this hiving off into teams in competition for zero-sum resources — be they COVID compensation funds or cabinet appointments — is only getting worse. Races, sexes, sexual identity cadres and the disabled are being incentivized to operate like trade unions or lobbying factions, whose interests are mutually exclusive and whose relations are therefore, if you will, structurally hostile. We’ve grown so numbly accustomed to raising category over character that we’re forgetting how depressingly regressive this primitive tribal mindset is.

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1   FarmersWon   2020 Dec 14, 8:48am  

Moot exercise. Biden going down and along with it "race hysteria".
2   Ceffer   2020 Dec 14, 9:21am  

Biden is letting Netflix choose his cabinet.
3   Dholliday126   2020 Dec 14, 9:35am  

The United States ceased to be a meritocracy in the 90's. Unfortunately, it'll be this way until our next war, errr major war, something to clear out the system. It's too decadent and spoiled now.
4   Ceffer   2020 Dec 14, 10:24am  

Netflix. Will one of the cabinet members be a scuzzy black male with no previous obvious means of support boffing the white debutant cheerleader press liaison? Will Kamala be jealous?
Will all the neocons be replaced by black computer geniuses wearing glasses?
5   Tenpoundbass   2020 Dec 14, 10:43am  

This year the December to Remember Lexus sign and drive event, is showing some Wetbacks living in an old money mansion. Also spreading some Covid social distancing propaganda, as they drive by a Latin old man and old woman with well wishes for Abuelo on their new Lexus. Who also lives in the lap of Luxury doing all of those damn jobs, that Americans don't want to do.

For the last few years, it's been rich Black people, which would either make them Government workers, Rap music producers, Celebrities or Slingers and Ballers.

Here's what gets me, I know Latin people and Black people live in nice houses just like upper middle does. But they don't dress like Mr. Rodgers and the Cleavers.
I mean when was the last time you saw a rich celebrity or any rich black person driving a Stock high end car? Or owning a spread way out in some remote exclusive cabin acreage?
6   SunnyvaleCA   2020 Dec 14, 12:35pm  

Biden’s picks for cabinet and staff have been scrutinized almost solely in accordance with their ‘diversity’

The fake-news has been spreading lies that Biden is "middle of the road" and all of that. That might actually be true if left up to his own choices, but he's too weak to resist the push from the far-left. Harris will be strong in pushback, but she's already far left, so she'll go there all on her own.
7   GlocknLoad   2020 Dec 14, 2:37pm  

Diversity is nothing more than a weapon. America would have been perfectly fine with an all white, Christian population. But, instead politicians pit the races against each other. Fun
8   Patrick   2020 Dec 14, 8:32pm  

GlocknLoad says
politicians pit the races against each other


It has always been that way.

They used to pit the different European groups against each other.
9   mich   2020 Dec 14, 9:01pm  

what he said.... Guess we'll find out who's pres around Jan 5th
www.youtube.com/embed/10B06wdQPxs
10   NDrLoR   2020 Dec 14, 9:17pm  

Patrick says
Biden’s picks for cabinet and staff
He picked a black man for some post but of course he was criticized because it wasn't a woman--but can't he be both on alternate days?
12   zzyzzx   2021 Jan 11, 5:52am  

Biden being racist again:
https://www.toddstarnes.com/politics/biden-our-priority-will-be-small-businesses-owned-by-blacks-latinos-asians-and-native-americans/

Biden: Our Priority Will Be Small Businesses Owned by Blacks, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans

So make sure you identify as the appropriate race!
13   Eric Holder   2021 Jan 11, 6:19am  

zzyzzx says
Biden being racist again:
https://www.toddstarnes.com/politics/biden-our-priority-will-be-small-businesses-owned-by-blacks-latinos-asians-and-native-americans/

Biden: Our Priority Will Be Small Businesses Owned by Blacks, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans

So make sure you identify as the appropriate race!


It's very convenient that lockdowns have wiped out many small businesess, clearing the field.
14   NuttBoxer   2021 Jan 11, 12:00pm  

This past week, I made a joke about Juneteenth sounding made up, on a public slack channel at my work(SF based tech company). I'm sure you can imagine the backlash. I've honestly never heard of that word before, despite having black friends most of my life, and living and working in a black neighborhood church over a summer. Guessing most of my friends didn't know about it either, or didn't celebrate.

This culture of looking for reasons to take offense is really ridiculous. The thing that stood out to me was talking with my boss and the HR guy, how scared they seemed about what they said regarding the situation. And these were one-on-one conversations. How can such a fear-ridden, hate-seeking environment be positive for anyone?
15   Patrick   2021 Jan 11, 12:23pm  

I posted https://threader.app/thread/1347912743605698560 on our internal chat this morning.

It's that important. I am willing to get fired if pointing out the hypocrisy of the billionaire left is prohibited.
16   NuttBoxer   2021 Jan 11, 12:29pm  

The part where he loses me is saying we're a minority. If that were true, Trump wouldn't have won both elections. They want us to think that, just like they want us to think gays and tranny's are everywhere(5% of the population).
18   Patrick   2021 Jan 23, 5:26pm  

Booger says
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/22/police-contacted-racist-posters-white-lives-matter-okay-white/


Police Contacted over ‘Racist’ Posters Saying ‘White Lives Matter’, ‘It’s Okay to Be White’


So it's not OK to be white?

So people are guilty just by being born a certain race?

What was the definition of racism again?
19   Patrick   2021 Jan 23, 5:26pm  

NuttBoxer says
they want us to think gays and tranny's are everywhere(5% of the population).


I'm sure it's much smaller than that.
20   Dholliday126   2021 Jan 23, 5:53pm  

It's funny, they are basically admitting that white males are superior to everyone else.
21   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2021 Jan 23, 7:56pm  

My theory is this is globalism. Globalism requires division, otherwise nationalism ... aka love for once country and actual unity and cohesion ... takes over.
22   NDrLoR   2021 Jan 23, 8:31pm  

Patrick says
I'm sure it's much smaller than that.
.005% would be generous.
23   NDrLoR   2021 Jan 23, 8:35pm  

NuttBoxer says
Juneteenth
That's because it originated in Galveston, Texas--it took that long for the message to reach slaves in Texas. I've known about it all my life. When I worked at Lone Star Gas Company, the proprietor of our company cafeteria The Flame Room in the beautiful Art Deco building would celebrate it by having water melon and fried chicken on that day and it didn't seem to bother anyone. I was in the Piccadilly Cafeteria in Waco one time in the 70's and a black lady was having trouble rounding up her two little boys who were running around everywhere and one of the old men sitting at a nearby table chuckled and said to the other one "alligator bait".

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