Sullivan Israel, a civil engineering student at UCLA, recently penned an op-ed piece for the College Fix in which he revealed that some Black students were of the opinion that automatic soap dispensers, inasmuch as they failed to react when they placed their hands beneath them, were racist.
Clearly finding their claims ludicrous, Sullivan suggested the dispensers might also be Anti-Semitic as they frequently failed to respond to his hands as well.
While the notion of racist soap dispensers may seem a ludicrous distortion of the “woke” mentality that has come to dominate our culture, it is no such thing, indeed is no more absurd than the conclusion, based on no statistical evidence whatsoever, that all White cops are racists or, as various academics have argued, that teaching math and science in our schools is an example of White Supremacy!
Public discourse here in the “progressive” West has come to manifest the same degree of maturity and intelligence typical of a whining, dysfunctional twelve year old. Indeed a good deal of the slop produced by today’s entertainment industries would seem to be directed at such. And of course any attempt to challenge the narrative of Victimization cultivated by the Left, anyone who suggests the Marxist vision of History to be grossly simplistic, anyone who argues that without self-awareness and personal accountability genuine human progress is impossible, anyone who has the gall to demand that we confront the world as mature, responsible adults, is unceremoniously denounced as just another example of Far-Right, Neo-Nazi, White Supremacist fanaticism.
Yes, while various nations around the world are rife with unconscionable levels of racial and religious intolerance because they failed to embrace anything like the transformative Rationalism of the European Enlightenment, Western Democracies continues to be the chief object of derision to the sophisticated Ideologues of the Left, any “conservative” effort to argue that bias denounced in the usual, tedious terms.
Gee, I think to myself, Nick Cannon, after a brazenly racist rant, now has his job back. And the two Black girls responsible for the death of Mohammad Anwar are not, apparently, going to prison. And Nancy Pelosi has just elevated a Black drug addict and career criminal to the status of Cultural Hero. And the Indigenous here in Canada, as also Blacks in the States, are eligible for all sorts of affirmative action programs denied to Whites, even those most beleaguered by poverty. While there are of course racist jerks amongst every sector of the species, how, I wonder, can “intellectuals” continue to push the narrative of Systemic White Racism here in the West?
But alas, I am then reminded of this troubling issue of racist soap dispensers which, were I truly “woke,” I might perhaps come to accept as proof of the unacknowledged bigotry of everyone who shares my skin color! And OMG, I just realized both my stove and fridge are White!