On Sunday, Oct 18, the editorial board at the Hartford Courant endorsed Joe Biden, claiming that anyone who voted for Trump was voting for Racism. Actual, tangible evidence of the man’s racism are nowhere to be found, but the Left repeatedly attempts to exploit Trump’s tendency to speak without thinking, attributing to him views which he clearly never meant to endorse.
In his now infamous speech on the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Trump asserted that there were some “very fine people” on both sides of the line. Those who hate him saw this as an endorsement of the hard-core Neo-Nazis who had organized the rally, whereas most in attendance there were middle- class Southerners who wondered why a statue of Robert E. Lee was about to be removed, why their history was in effect being cancelled. When asked to clarify his statement, Trump unequivocally denounced White Supremacism and racism of every variety. In the same way, after responding ambiguously to a reference to The Proud Boys, a group with whom he appeared to be barely familiar, he once again asserted his disdain for White xenophobia. But all such disclaimers fall on deaf ears. Leftists intuitively know he is a racist and nothing will change their minds. It is the level of intellectual integrity they bring to all discussions.
Leading up to the 2016 election, Trump made several references to the criminal element which had infiltrated the caravan advancing through Mexico as drug pushers and rapists shamelessly seeking to profit from the desperation of those attempting to reach America. His statement was widely misinterpreted to mean he saw all Mexicans and indeed South Americans as potential criminals. While reports on the degree of the sexual brutalization of the women within the caravan vary dramatically, Trump certainly was not accusing all Latino men of being sexual predators. Nor was his determination to thwart the caravan in any way “racist.”
To the woke Left there is no such thing as illegal immigration. People ought to be able to go wherever they want whenever they want. Just ask Kamala Harris. But to those of her “compassionate” sensibility I would pose the following question: If America cannot now offer sufficient jobs, adequate housing and decent educational prospects to its own impoverished, a good number of whom are people of color, will not the addition of millions of illegal aliens to the welfare ranks exacerbate the very problems apparently so distressing to the Left. Ought not the welfare of those whose roots in the States go back hundreds of years to take precedence over those who have no legal right to be there? Investigate Herbert Marcuse and his fellow Frankfurt Socialists and you will note a distinct willingness to denounce what they termed the “dictatorship” of common sense so typical of Enlightenment thinkers. They must be wallowing in contentment knowing that common sense has been more or less banished from the political Left, indeed that anyone proposing something so pragmatic as a wall to deter illegal immigration can be simply, mindlessly dismissed as a racist!
Juan Manuel Gastelum, mayor of Tijuana, was appalled by the aggressiveness and brazen disrespect for authority exhibited by many within the caravan. Predictably, having expressed his fealty to The Rule of Law, he now appears to be known derisively as “Tijuana Trump.”
The Hartford Courant, in indicting Trump for wearing “his Whiteness like a badge of honor,” reveals the absolute stupidity of current “progressive” assumptions about what constitutes racism. Whereas those of every other cultural heritage on the planet are encouraged to take pride in their traditions, White Western Europeans, literally because of their achievements, are viciously excoriated for doing so. It is the absurd double standard at the heart of our “woke” society.
Here in the “progressive” West, the defense of one’s National borders is immediately denounced as racist. Signs posted on campuses across North America claiming “Its okay to be White” are immediately denounced as racist. “Conservative” disdain for the absurd Cultural Relativism of the Left is immediately denounced as racist. The assertion that Science is by definition superior to Indigenous Superstition is immediately denounced as racist. Quite literally, any defense of Traditional Western Humanism in the upside-down, egregiously irrational world of Ibram X. Kendi, is now considered a species of racism. Hence the Courant’s smug denunciation of Donald Trump’s pride in his “Whiteness”! Everyone of that complexion, as Oprah has told us, ought to be ashamed of themselves!
The irrationality of the “woke” Left is nowhere more evident than in its inability to deal with any “progressive” who dares utter a syllable of praise for America’s admittedly flawed president. This past Friday, Oct. 23, CNN’s Van Jones, a Black liberal who has never hesitated to criticize Trump, dared admit that he “has done good stuff for the Black community.” Expanding on this premise, he stated: “I worked with him on criminal justice stuff. I saw Donald Trump have African American people, formerly incarcerated, in the White House–embraced them, treated them well. There’s a side to Donald Trump that I think he does not get enough credit for.” Jones has of course been excoriated by the Left for his betrayal! The aforementioned Sept. 11 article by the N.Y. Times’ Farah Stockman on Trump’s accomplishments mentions several pieces of legislation clearly designed to help Black Americans. Yet day after day after tedious day, the consensus media, while offering no tangible evidence, continues to refer to the man as an idiot, a monster, a racist, a Neo-Nazi, etc., etc., etc.
Here in socialist Canada where even “conservatives” tend to be “liberal,” 99% of my friends think that it is Trump and his racist White supporters who are preeminently responsible for the hatred which seems to have divided America. But Envy if not Hatred lies at the very heart of the Marxist narrative, a narrative which poses a grossly simplistic, factually inaccurate, implicitly Racist vision of History, the vision which has been slowly metastasizing throughout our culture for almost a century now, leading many in the West to accept the absurd notion that the quality of life they have come to take for granted is a matter of Privilege if not outright Villainy rather than of the amazing, historically demonstrable achievements of their ancestors.
Yes, pride in one’s Whiteness now makes one a racist. Defense of the Rational Principles of the European Enlightenment now makes one a racist. The N. Y. Times’ “1619 Project” declares that Racism rather than respect for the Inalienable Rights of the Individual was in fact the defining factor in the evolution of America’s Democracy. Widely disseminated throughout Academia, it is but another version of the Neo-Marxist narrative which has led those marauding through the streets of America to loathe their very own country. Our question, of course, is whether their disdain is warranted or the result of an Ideology which, like all forms of religious fanaticism, seems to have replaced an honest respect for Empirical Fact with sheer Sentimental Nonsense.