Open Hatred

As CNN tries to go cold turkey on race rants, MSNBC becomes the premier purveyor of white hatred and black racism.

Tucker Carlson has been focused on the horrific hatred of the left for a while. Over the past couple of nights, he has brought the pure, unadulterated racism of the black leftists and their white allies, all of whom are protected and sheltered by MSNBC, to the forefront.

Of course, there are some remoras out there who are attaching themselves to the underbelly of this wave of absurd rhetoric, but it is hard to ignore the hardcore racialists who expound on such stupidity as  claiming when a non-white person who is politically conservative does conservative things, that is an example of “lite” supremacy (an actual term used by Charles Blow,  the perilously left-wing opinion columnist for the New York Times) or when an Asian man is elected to the mayor’s office in Vancouver and people are shocked he is a conservative, they call it white supremacy.

It is easy enough to pass off the ridiculousness of the attacks from this cabal as just the rantings of people who are nutty as a can of Planter’s peanuts, to laugh at situations like the Congressional Black Caucus, allegedly an organization within Congress for the support and promotion of black congressmembers, supporting a white male Democrat over a black female Republican in an election, or to just pass all of this off as a bunch of leftists engaging in ideological purity at all cost.

When I hear clips from the Race Lady (what Tucker calls Joy Reid), Tiffany Cross, Elie Mystal and even Michael Steele and Nicole Wallace (who is white), I am left to wonder just who in Hell about whom these people are talking.

I’m not an unaware person. I’ve dabbled in politics, having advised candidates, worked on local, state, and national campaigns, and worked inside the GOP at the state level in Mississippi and Utah. I have been to state organizing conventions with 1900 of my closest Republican friends – all of whom are male, female, white, black, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, straight, gay and who knows what else. We didn’t ask and we didn’t care because none of that mattered to us - and I have yet to hear a racist word uttered in any of these meetings.

I also live, work, and play in the real world with real people as my neighbors. We have a mix of people in our neighborhood with signs indicating support for BLM and Egon McWaffle to those for Mike Lee and even Trump flags in their yards this election season, and yet because in my neighborhood, we get along. In the end, we are all concerned about the same things, safety of our community, the futures of our kids, equal treatment of all people, and how to secure those things. We do have different ideas about how to achieve those things but so far, there have been no street fights or night riders in the mix.

I don’t know the straw men MSNBC conjures and burns every single day.

One would be tempted to just ignore all the race baiting and incitement and go on.

But this is something more than just Machiavellian politics.

The more I consider it, it is difficult to ascribe it to anything other than pure hatred.

What are we to do?

I don’t think the racial attacks can be allowed to continue without refutation.

F. A. Hayek wrote:

“It is not difficult to deprive the seat majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced.”

The problem is that repetitive, uncorrected perception will eventually become a sort of pseudo-objective truth (i.e., conventional wisdom) if it is not effectively countered with objective fact.

Therefore, this is the reason leftist progressives tend to constantly prevaricate, parse, and dissemble.

As a matter of fact, progressive ideology depends on people never recognizing objective reality. It depends on people railing about how the steak sizzles, not the quality of the meat (or even if the steak even exists). Many contemporary “movements”, the BLM “movement” in particular, are based on events (Hands up, don’t shoot!) that are objectively false but are sustained by propaganda and agitprop. It is unfortunately all too common that clashes and violence rest upon the perpetuation of a perception of some offense (white cops are hunting young, unarmed black men) that has no basis in fact and yet, authorities are too afraid to correct for fear of violent reaction – or, in the case of many cause célèbres of the left, the correction would end the group’s political usefulness.

Objectivity is the left’s biggest nightmare. That is why they must wage war against any public criticism or public expression of doubt. That is why cancel culture, bans on free speech and de-platforming of the opposition are all the rage on the left.

Tucker has chosen mockery to counter this white hatred and “lite” supremacy craziness.

But I’m not sure the left has enough self-awareness to even recognize mockery.