A Social Justice Warrior’s Inside Story

Here we see the evolution of a social justice warrior, reproduced with permission from the author.

Ethan James

Do those who “preach the loudest” have “the biggest skeletons in their closet”?

Certainly some of them do. Absolutely.

There’s an old friend of mine from high school who is completely unrecognisable now. She’s changed beyond belief, and when I say changed, I mean for the worse.

When we met, she was just my friend’s shy and awkward girlfriend. He was like two years older than her, and she would hang out with us all day, every day because she followed him around like a lost puppy. She even had an edgy, wry sense of humour at the time, and it was great. She was the subject of several of my 2018 answers, and I painted her in a completely positive light.

Flash forward two years, and she’s a completely different person. It eventually got to the point that she once convinced me to beat a guy up in retaliation to him beating up my other friend. When I beat him bloody, she turned on me, said it was “too far” and completely shafted me.

Another time, she was at a party I was hosting at my house, and she cheated on her boyfriend with a friend of mine. Instead of owning up to what she did, she told the boyfriend that my friend had sexually assaulted her.

My buddy’s life is still irreparably ruined from that shit, and I know for a fact it was false. Both my biological dad and I were in the same room during the time of her allegation. They never went off alone anywhere.

It might sound like she was always a bad egg. But it wasn’t like that. It was a slow decay.

Back in the day, she was kinder, did less drugs and loved everybody. Her hair was long and black and she was quite pretty. Now she’s completely addicted to smoking weed, she’s gained weight, dyed her hair to the point of killing it, and wears nothing but baggy tracksuits and hoodies.

She’s also an oafish bully, who disguises her bullying in progressive politics, pretending it’s anything like the compassion she used to have. Every day her social media is filled with hateful statements, and she constantly tries to mobilise her followers to dox people in the name of progress.

All this performative wokeness made me think about how edgy she used to be, and I started looking back at old photos and memories. That’s when I found a very hypocritical Snapchat screenshot from what was now supposedly a woke queen.

I can’t post the actual photo itself, but use your imagination.

Imagine this blackface photo, but with a teenage girl in the blackface. Even if I gave her the benefit of the doubt and excused the blackface as a “skincare face mask”, that doesn’t excuse what she captioned the photo with

“yo yo nigger”

All while she calls for the heads of strangers online and flaunts her ‘morality’. Morality is determined only by the standards of the mainstream at any given time. And she’s widely considered to be morally upstanding by her peers. This says a lot about our society. Now you see…

But seriously, that’s a skeleton if I ever saw it. If she keeps trying to dox people I care about I’m releasing the blackface pic. Can’t wait to see the crocodile tears in her public apology.

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It’s Time to Posthumously Change MLK’s Name

For several years now, America has been busy renaming streets, schools, parks, prizes and sports teams. Here’s a list of name-changes that have taken place since the George Floyd riots. Scientists are even changing the names of insects, because some of them have been deemed insensitive to non-white ethnic groups. In Science Mag, we’re told that:

“Noosing” is a long-standing term used by herpetologists for catching lizards. But for McGee, a Black scientist, the term is unnerving, calling to mind horrific lynchings of Black people by white people in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. “Being the only Black person out in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of white people talking about noosing things is unsettling,” she says. McGee has urged her colleagues to change the parlance to “lassoing,” which she says also more accurately describes how herpetologists catch lizards with lengths of thread.

Hence, even when no offense was originally intended, if it’s possible that somebody MIGHT take offense at a name, it’s justification to change it.

Many of the people behind the original names were not evil; they were men, and women, of their times. Some of them were heroes – but this carries little weight to those who judge historical figures by today’s woke standards.

And then we have a man like Martin Luther, the founder of the Reformation Movement in Europe. A Christianity Today article describes him thusly:

“Set fire to their synagogues or schools,” Martin Luther recommended in On the Jews and Their Lies. Jewish houses should “be razed and destroyed,” and Jewish “prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, [should] be taken from them.” In addition, “their rabbis [should] be forbidden to teach on pain of loss of life and limb.” Still, this wasn’t enough.

Luther also urged that “safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews,” and that “all cash and treasure of silver and gold be taken from them.” What Jews could do was to have “a flail, an ax, a hoe, a spade” put into their hands so “young, strong Jews and Jewesses” could “earn their bread in the sweat of their brow.”

These fierce comments have puzzled and embarrassed Christians who otherwise admire the Reformer. And they have led to charges that Luther was “one of the ‘church fathers’ of anti-Semitism.” More seriously, Luther’s attacks have been seen as paving the way for Hitler.

It’s true that Luther was more tolerant at one point – but that was before he realized that the Jews were not going to flock to his new Christianity. He became MORE anti-Semitic later in life. If we are to judge Luther at all, then it makes sense to judge him based upon his later writings, to quote an Illinois Wesleyan University paper:

Unknown to popular knowledge, Luther wrote a treatise in 1543 titled On the Jews and Their Lies. In this 65,000-word document, he repeatedly attacks the Jews. The consequences of this treatise were far reaching, even extending into the present day, as his writings continue to be reproduced in pamphlets by neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic groups. More devastating, his writings were circulated during the most horrifying event of the 20th century: the Holocaust. Hitler himself named Luther as one of history’s greatest reformers in his novel, Mein Kampf…

Luther’s attitude toward the Jews appeared to change over his life. His earlier attitudes seemed were sympathetic towards the Jews.

Perhaps Martin Luther King’s father, Michael King, should have considered this before changing his name, and he was a minister, so he surely would have been aware of this. If he wasn’t, then ignorance is no excuse; one does not simply change his name after a historical figure, and not bother to learn about the figure beforehand. To call this “negligence” is too charitable.

According to The Atlanta Journal:

When he was born Jan. 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr.’s name was Michael. It’s the name originally on his birth certificate.

He was named after his father, the Rev. Michael King, who was senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

In 1934, Ebenezer sent “Daddy King” to Europe for a Baptist World Alliance meeting…

King toured much of Germany, the country that is the birthplace of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation, which led to a split with the Catholic Church.

When he returned to Atlanta, the senior King decided to change his name and his son’s from Michael to Martin Luther, after the German Protestant leader, according to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford…

That is why King Jr.’s birth certificate — filed with the Georgia Department of Public Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics — was altered on July 23, 1957, when he was 28. “Michael” is crossed out, and “Martin Luther Jr.” is printed next to it.

Martin Luther King was 28 years old when his name was legally changed. He was 39 years old when he was assassinated. He had 11 years to reconsider his father’s poor judgment.

While this reflects poorly on the man himself, the fact that his (tainted) name is shoved in our faces practically every day reflects poorly on our ruling class. As the only American with a holiday in his honor, 500 years of violent anti-Semitism is practically celebrated every January 17th. Additionally, practically every city in the United States has a Martin Luther King Blvd., and a Martin Luther King School. There are countless monuments and statues in his memory, each one bearing the name of a notorious anti-Semite.

There is nothing we can do about the past, but we can make things right by posthumously changing MLK’s name back to Michael King, or perhaps to Michael Leib King, so that the initials remain the same, “Leib” being a nod to Jewish support in the Civil Rights movement.

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Demography is Destiny

If you want to see what happens when we lose control of our demographics, and black Africans dominate, watch this video. Hat tip to Mad Jewess:

https://youtu.be/xrWvSSfkRhM
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Three Portland Assaults, but Only Two Photos

I was searching for a specific assault that occurred recently in Portland, and these are the results that popped up on the KATU/ABC website:

You might notice that the top three results feature specific incidents, and specific suspects. The top two prominently show white suspects, while the third has only a dark, generic, graphic with no suspect pictured. Here’s an excerpt from the third article:

PORTLAND, Ore. — A 53-year-old man has been arrested, accused of being behind a series of random attacks with a baseball bat, according to Portland Police.

The series of incidents were reported on Tuesday and Wednesday, in and around Portland’s Lloyd District.

Authorities received the first report on Tuesday night, Dec. 22, when someone told police they had been struck in the head with a baseball bat near a Burgerville on NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The victim said they were walking down the street when they were hit by a man they didn’t know. Police said they were able to get an “intricate description” of the suspect from the victim and began to search for him.

Only toward the end of the article are we told the name of the suspect:

Identified as Trendlon Deneishel Kimp Brewer, police said he had a backpack on, which had a baseball bat sticking out from it. When officers attempted to arrest Brewer, police said he swung at one of them, striking them in the face, leaving a “minor injury.”

No photo is included with the article. However, a simple internet search yields his mug:

Though the article doesn’t specify a motive, and wants us to believe that the attacks were “random,” with no rhyme or reason, I strongly suspect that the victims were white or Asian. It’s even possible that racial slurs were used during the attacks – but we’ll probably never know.

His inmate file shows 7 felonies and 2 misdemeanors – but so far he’s only been sentenced for one of the misdemeanors: Assaulting a police officer. For some reason, the public records are not showing Brewer’s sentence details, but since he’s in jail, and not in prison, we can safely assume that his sentence is less than a year.

If you’ve been wondering why crime is out of control in Portland, this case illustrates part of the problem.

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The Chinese Communist Party’s 50¢ Army

How many of y’all have heard of the 50¢ Army?

If you read the comments on YouTube videos about China, or Facebook or Twitter, you might have noticed a lot of comments that are pro-CCP (Chinese Communist Party). While it’s possible that some of them are sincere, many of them are paid – so take them with a grain of salt. You might be encountering the wumao, or 50¢ Army.

Today, I came across a Quora answer, in response to China’s behavior toward its Uighur minority:

With Imran Khan of Pakistan and even the Taliban siding with China, has the Muslim world now abandoned the Uighur to appease China? Johnny Chao, Head of Product Management at Toptal

Dozens of muslim countries sent their teams to xinjiang (invited by china) to see what these “concentration” camps were like, and they were satisfied to see their muslim peers were not being persecuted, murdered, raped, but put into vocational training to de-radicalize. It’s a fact that most terrorists are young people, males were are easily radicalized especially if they had no job and income, marginalized from society. So China is giving them tools to integrate into a society that they can earn money, make a living and have a regular life. And this is so the hundreds of terrorist attacks in China by radicalized terrorists would stop, innocent men, women, children were hacked to death in public, entire streets burned by terrorists who were told to hate and kill people. The last time the US experienced something like that, it chose to invade 2 sovereign countries, stay and take the oil of one, make the other into the world’s biggest opium producer. All while killing millions of civilians.

Now the Talibans have first hand witness at the actual rape, murder and bombing of their brethren by the pentagon on a daily basis over the last 20 years, if you ask me, they know when someone is really persecuting their kind, vs CNN/FOX/NBC/BBC telling them so.

I haven’t been to Xinjiang Province, so I don’t have any insider information to share, but you might want to watch this video:

I’ll point out that Laowhy86 has a good track record for uncovering the truth about things. Whether you agree with him or not, his opinions should not be taken lightly.

I challenged this 50¢ soldier with a simple question: Were these teams allowed to visit any part of Xinjiang they pleased, on a whim, without any advance notice, and without CCP officials accompanying them. The reason I’m paraphrasing myself is that my comment, and Mr. Chao’s response were subsequently removed, and comments disabled – but not before he submitted a response, which was preserved in my email:

If you are so interested, why not reach out to the PR branches of those muslim countries, here’s a list,
Muslim nations are defending China as it cracks down on Muslims, shattering any myths of Islamic solidarity | CNN

But I’ll bet you no country in the world gets to visit an entire province of another country “on a whim and with no warning”, every country have scientific, R&D, military bases in their own home, getting to go where ever when ever is not something any sovereign countries allow anyone to do, do you allow neighbors to come to your house to search through your drawers, fridge and dirty underwear without a court issued warrant? Does Israel allow UN inspectors to inspect it’s illegal nuclear weapons program? Does US allow UN human rights team to visit Guantanamo bay? Does Canada allow UN inspectors to come to see residential schools mass children grave sites? And these are actually proven genocide and torture.

Try to think logically.

I get the distinct impression that Mr. Chao has never visited a Western country (even though he claims to be in Canada), because if he had, he would know that once you’ve crossed the border legally, you’re permitted to visit anywhere you’d like. Sensitive military installations are excluded, but that’s not relevant; several impromptu visits to obscure towns and random citizens would have given these teams a reasonably accurate picture of the goings on there. Also, what’s so sensitive about “vocational camps?” Apparently, Mr. Chao realized this, or was told after he posted his response, and then quickly went back and deleted it.

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NYC School’s Faculty Rebels Against Anti-White Principal

From The Daily Mail:

NYC school’s faculty rebels against principal who ‘conspired to get rid of white teachers’ and who ‘definitely has something against white people’

A Washington Heights high school principal is facing a probe by the New York City Department of Education for allegedly discriminating against white teachers.

The probe was launched after faculty members at High School for Law and Public Service accused principal Paula Lev of discriminating against staff and conspiring to get a white colleague fired.

Faculty filed a complaint with the Education Department and also voted they had ‘no confidence’ in Lev’s leadership.

The complaint, which was obtained by the New York Post, claims that Lev ‘flagrantly but unsuccessfully attempted to divide our school by race’ and told an employee that she ‘was going to get rid of all these white teachers that aren’t doing anything for the kids of our community.’

‘She definitely has something against white people,’ it adds.

I wish the faculty much success in this endeavor, but the sad fact is that unless the Great Replacement is reversed, such efforts are doomed to fail in the long run.

The courts are already compromised due to activist judges, and jury pools are already contaminated due to an increasingly indoctrinated, and hostile, population. All branches of government are subject to this degradation, and as today’s CRT-indoctrinated kids grow up and become cogs in the Evil Machine, the racial caste system will become ever more entrenched. If this is the case now, when whites are still a majority in the United States, then justice will be even less obtainable when whites are a minority.

If the faculty at Washington Heights high school believe that the courts, or education departments, will come to their rescue in the future, then they’re in for a nasty surprise; more often than not, their complaints will be met with indifference, or even hostility.

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Some Recent Diversity Attacks

If you get excited about savages being unleashed upon unsuspecting civilized society, then Diversity is your cup of tea. Here are a few recent incidents:

Tourist slashed near Times Square after ignoring stranger’s cat calls

A 23-year old woman was slashed in the chest and hand in Times Square early Friday morning when a stranger lashed out after she ignored his catcalls, police said.

Her friend told the stranger to leave her alone, but he grew enraged and followed them before approaching the woman from behind a slicing her across the chest and hand with an unknown sharp object, police said.

Here’s a photo of the savage:

I wonder if the victim voted for Biden, or if the connection between black crime and Biden’s policies even registers in her mind. In any case, she got the point.

Massachusetts teen lifeguard stabbed, beaten after warning beachgoers about alcohol, smoking rules

A 17-year-old lifeguard in Massachusetts was stabbed and beaten on the Fourth of July after asking that a group of people seen drinking and smoking at an area pond in Worcester either stop or leave. 

Four people have since been arrested in connection to the incident after officers were dispatched to the area of Bell Pond around 6:30 p.m. Sunday to a report of several males attacking the lifeguard on duty. Officers began rendering aid to a 17-year-old male lifeguard who had been stabbed before an ambulance arrived to transport him to the hospital. His injuries are not life-threatening. 

A preliminary investigation revealed the lifeguard had advised a small group of males who were smoking and drinking in the park to stop or they would be asked to leave. Several members of the group left without incident, Worcester Police said, but “one person was verbally aggressive and threatening.” That male left the park but came back later with a small group and attacked the victim, police said. 

During the confrontation, the victim was hit with a stick and stabbed.

We don’t know who the perpetrators are, since they’re minors, but if you think they’re white, then you’ve been watching too much fiction, and your brain is probably corporate-owned.

Here’s a “white-supremacist” trashing an Asian-owned store:

Rabbi Stabbed in Boston Used Judo to Fend off Assailant: ‘Act of Hate and Darkness’ 

The Suffolk County District Attorney in Massachusetts has launched a civil rights investigation after a rabbi was stabbed eight times last Thursday, public radio station WBUR reports.

Shortly after 1 p.m. that day, Rabbi Shlomo Noginski was standing outside of Jewish Day School in Brighton, Mass., when he was approached by a 24-year-old man with a gun, the station reported.

Noginski’s colleague, Rabbi Dan Rodkin, told NBC10 that Noginski was stabbed in the arm and shoulder. But with a black belt in judo, Noginski was able to defend himself and nearby children.

“We are here to send a message to everyone — that we, Boston, are not going to sit back,” Rodkin said, according to the station. “We will fight back. We will bring goodness to the world. We’ll make sure that we will become better people and we will send a strong message — that evil has no place in America.”

Boston Police arrested Khaled Awad, who was charged with with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on an officer, according to WBUR.

It appears as though this Egyptian Muslim was allowed into the US without sufficient screening.

Miami Gangs Are Out of Control. This Mom Paid With Her Life

While no one has been charged in Paraison’s killing, the recent bust of a Miami teen by federal agents appears to have provided investigators with their biggest break in the case. It also offers a rare window into the workings of inner-city gangs from the Miami area fomenting wanton acts of gun violence that have exploded into public view over the past year.

According to a June 25, 2021, criminal complaint, 19-year-old Kenny Terlent has been charged with four federal felony counts: aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, possession of 15 or more access devices to commit fraud, and possession of an illegal machine gun. The feds say Terlent is an alleged member of 77th Street, a violent gang that has been engaged in a deadly feud with a rival organization called Little Haiti Vultures since 2018. An escalation in hostilities last year resulted in the brutal slaying of an innocent 20-year-old woman identified in the complaint only as “P.P.”

Is anybody surprised that a large population of Haitians, in Miami, has brought a wave of violence in its wake? The Haitians should be sent back to Haiti; those Haitian politicians aren’t going to assassinate themselves!

No bail for man accused of ‘terrorizing downtown’, fatally stabbing Maryland grad student

A 41-year-old man accused of “terrorizing downtown” after he allegedly attacked three women, killing one, over the course of nine days this month was held without bail Saturday.

Tony Robinson is facing a first-degree murder charge in the fatal stabbing of a Maryland graduate student in the Loop last weekend, as well as armed robbery and aggravated battery charges in connection to two other downtown attacks…

About 4 p.m. June 19, Anat Kimchi, 31, was walking in the 400 block of South Wacker Drive when Robinson approached her from behind and stabbed her in the neck and upper back, Murphy said.

The perpetrator:

The victim:

It’s worth mentioning that Anat Kimchi was Israeli, and a social justice warrior. Her parents are taking donations for an organization that benefits savages such as the one that took their daughter’s life. We’ve seen this sickness before.

Max Solomon Lewis, 20, killed by stray bullet in Chicago

Max Solomon Lewis, a 20-year-old University of Chicago student, was commuting home from his summer internship last Thursday evening when a stray bullet pierced the window of his train car and hit him in the back of the neck.

Lewis, a rising third year student, was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center and had emergency surgery. Once brought out of sedation, he was paralyzed from the neck down but cognitively aware.

Max with his mom, Dr. Rebecca Rivkin. by the Forward
Courtesy of The Rivkin FamilyMax with his mom, Dr. Rebecca Rivkin.

Saturday night, doctors asked Lewis to make a choice: remain on a ventilator for the rest of his life or remove life support. He blinked his choice to his parents and doctors: remove the ventilator. Lewis died Sunday morning.

The Forward article goes on to push for gun-control, rather than criminal-control:

Kaye, a political science major, is frustrated by the “structural barriers” to true gun control. “First something needs to be done about the NRA and people like [Senate Minority Leader] Mitch McConnell. I don’t know what I could do to change things.”

It’s interesting that these last two victims were both Jewish, and it’s sad to see how today’s Marxist Jews* have taken the Jewish tradition of martyrdom, and perverted it in order to advance their diabolical agenda: The destruction of Western Civilization through Diversity.

*I’m not accusing Lewis, or his family, of being Cultural Marxists; rather I’m referring to The Forward.

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Teen Girls Steal Flag from Home

I saw this on Nextdoor.com:

Flag theft by teen girls. At around 11:30 tonight, we had 3 teen girls steal our American flag right off the front of our house. If your daughter was wandering around (redacted) Elementary school tonight, please teach them to be respectful of other’s property. My husband chased after them barefoot and got it back. They thought it was funny till they saw him running behind them and dropped it and ran south on (redacted). As a disabled Army vet, he was less than thrilled. Happy 4th of July…

In the scheme of things, this is a minor incident, and I wouldn’t expect new outlets to publish it, but I’m bringing it up because it seems like a political crime to me. These are teenagers, so somebody must have put it into their heads, somehow, that this is a good idea. They were not identified, but regardless of their background, I wonder if anti-American rhetoric in high school instilled a hatred for America in their impressionable minds. This doesn’t seem like a random act that youngsters would do just for the fun of it; the flag symbolized something to them – something that they were taught to hate. I seriously doubt that they stole the flag with the intention of planting it at their own home, or to display it proudly at a parade.

This is the sort of thing that happens when children are taught negative things about the country they live in.

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Scientific American Being Very Unscientific

Yesterday, Scientific American published an article titled “Race, Evolution and the Science of Human Origins.” I can’t help but think that the title is a mockery of Phillipe Rushton’s “Race, Evolution and Behavior.” I also couldn’t help but notice that, despite its flaws, Rushton’s book is a lot more scientific than the the Scientific American article, whose author, “Allison Hopper, is a filmmaker and designer with a master’s degree in educational design from New York University.” From the article, it’s obvious that her primary concern is “social justice,” and not science.

Our first clue is in the subtitle: As museums reopen let’s introduce ourselves, and our children, to the original Black ancestors of all human beings.

Even though she’s referring to our paleolithic ancestors, she capitalizes “Black,” which makes no sense at all; “Black” refers specifically to black Americans, also sometimes called “African-Americans.” If she’s referring to a color, it still doesn’t make sense; the assumption is that they were dark-skinned, but there’s no way to know whether their color was black, brown, olive or some other hue. Even if she meant to say they were negro, it’s unlikely that modern racial classifications were applicable that far back.

She dives into social justice rhetoric from the very first paragraph:

This cultural reawakening’s beginning coincided with both the Juneteenth holiday and the one-year anniversary of the one of the largest protests in American history against racial injustice. As bookstores reopen, many are organizing displays of children’s books that celebrate Black history. What you won’t find in even the biggest collections of books is the story of the dark-skinned early people who launched human civilization.

Of course, it’s absurd to suggest that there’s any connection, whatsoever, between our (alleged) dark-skinned paleolithic ancestors and concepts such as “Juneteenth” and “racial justice.” Does Miss Hooper believe that Gay Erectus was fleeing racism and colonialism in Africa, or perhaps Heidelberg Person was kidnapped for slavery, forcibly removed from the Motherland – and then fled to freedom using a stone-aged equivalent of the Underground Railroad, run by a primitive version of Harriet Tubperson?

She goes on:

The global scientific community overwhelmingly accepts that all living humans are of African descent.

This is not correct; much doubt has been cast upon the Out of Africa hypothesis, most recently by a discovery in China. It now seems likely that humans evolved in various locations. In any case, we can no longer assume that all modern humans came from Africa.

Miss Hopper seems to be obsessed with dark-skinned people, and lumps them all together, recklessly, in a hopeless mishmash:

We are all descended genetically, and also culturally, from dark-skinned ancestors. Early humans from the African continent are the ones who first invented tools; the use of fire; language; and religion. These dark skinned early people laid down the foundation for human culture.

Even if this is true, so what? What difference does it make to us if your distant ancestors were “dark-skinned” or not? This has no relevance to our modern world. Until we recover actual DNA from these early African hominids, all we have to go on is conjecture when it comes to their skin-color – and frankly, most of us simply don’t care.

Miss Hopper seems to be working on an assumption that “racist white people” actually care about skin-color. News flash: It means very little to us. What we care about is behavior, what some might refer to as “content of character.” We would rather have purple-black neighbors who are civilized than light-skinned savages. When we refer to skin-color, most of the time, it’s only as shorthand for demographics whose most important trait is their behavior. Not to say that we don’t appreciate the aesthetic components of our race(s), but this is secondary for most of us.

She continues:

I want to unmask the lie that evolution denial is about religion and recognize that at its core, it is a form of white supremacy that perpetuates segregation and violence against Black bodies. Under the guise of “religious freedom,” the legalistic wing of creationists loudly insists that their point of view deserves equal time in the classroom. Science education in the U.S. is constantly on the defensive against antievolution activists who want biblical stories to be taught as fact.

“Black bodies?” What kind of doofus would approve such terminology in a (supposedly) scientific journal? The term itself makes no sense; must we be told that it’s not the souls of black people that are black, or their possession, but their bodies? If this is an attempt to showcase the historic reduction of black people to slaves, whose only value is in the labor their bodies can provide, then perhaps Miss Hopper should take her message to the millions of white women who fetishize black males – for their “black bodies.” It wouldn’t surprise me if Miss Hopper is one of them herself.

It’s amusing that Miss Hopper accuses white conservatives/ right-wingers of evolution-denial, when the most germaine example of evolution-denialism is race-denialism. Race-realism is predicated upon human evolution – primarily during the past 40 thousand years or so. Race-denialism is predicated upon the refusal to acknowledge that 40 thousand years is enough time for populations to diverge in meaningful ways – and plenty of evidence points to the fact that it is.

The article goes on to attack Christianity, and it never seems to occur to Miss Hopper that many millions of blacks, from around the world, have embraced Christianity, and that this faith provides strength and courage to improve their lives and the societies around them. To deprive black people of Christianity is among the worst things one can do to them.

Shame on Scientific American for publishing such rubbish!

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When Might Reparations Make Sense?

For those of y’all who don’t already know, I’m married to a Quora space called “It’s Okay to be White.” When I say “married,” I don’t mean like a regular marriage, where each spouse gets some alone time now and then. No, this marriage is different. My Quora-wife is with me all the time, constantly demanding my attention. Do I get paid for it? Only if you consider making the world a better place “payment.” Quora does have an arrangement with advertisers so that space admins/mods can get paid for their efforts – but, not surprisingly, our space has been denied this perk. The official reason is that “we promote our product too aggressively.” This is odd, because we HAVE NO product! Anyway, I spend a lot of time there, and I feel privileged to do so.

We accept submissions from people of any background; we’re inclusive.

One woman asked why her submission was rejected, and I followed up with a private message. Here is her response:

Hello Reuben, I responded to that insulting, kick in the stomach, posts completing disrespecting my ancestors, who did deserve to be paid for their labor. In their absence, the funds should go to their estates – such as humans do. It’s annoying to look at the posting, but it shows a rather typical attitude of people who do not see their compatriots as brothers.

First of all, she and I agree that the posted meme is offensive; it’s not fair to the KKK to compare it to Antifa or the Communists. Too many conservatives stoop to bashing the KKK just to show how righteous they are, as in, “We’re not like the KKK; we’re not RACISTS!” I’ve never seen an actual Klansman respond to any of those jabs – and the people who post them are probably aware of the fact that they’re attacking an easy target, one that’s unlikely to defend itself. It’s a low blow and a cheap shot. I say all this as a person who’s not even a fan of the KKK, though I’ve written about the original KKK before. Today’s KKK groups are not related to the original one.

But that’s not the primary point I’m here to make today. My point is that the lady has a point. I think that if a recent ancestor of yours was forced to work for an entity, for a number of years, without compensation, then it’s not unreasonable to demand that the entity compensate you for your ancestor’s lost wages – plus interest.

I’d add a few caveats to this though:

  1. The original entity that benefited from the slavery must still exist, and in such a way that there was continuity from the time of slavery until today.
  2. The compensation must be divorced from race, and limited to those who can actually document that their ancestors were slaves to an entity that fits the above description. If an individual identifies as “white,” appears white, and fills out the census as “white,” but one of his great-great-grandmothers was a slave, then he deserves compensation. I say this because if we view potential claimants by race, then we must face the fact that blacks (as a group) have been a net deficit to the United States for a long time. If we view people racially, then it’s blacks who owe white America reparations, not the other way around – but this is not the topic of my post. For the purpose of reparations, it makes more sense to look at the individual, and his family background.
  3. Now that we’re focused on the individual, and the specific entities that wronged his ancestors, we need to calculate how much, in extra taxes, the targeted entity paid in order to provide any state subsidies, welfare, or food-stamps etc. to the claimant’s family since the end of slavery. There’s no way to reach an exact figure, but it’s probably possible to arrive at an approximate value.
  4. Did the targeted entity lose revenue due to the the death of Union soldiers during the Civil War? Was the entity required to hire black employees (of the claimant’s family) due to Affirmative Action mandates? Was the entity sued for “disparate impact” or other bogus claims of “racism?” All this should be taken into account, because reparations shouldn’t have to be paid twice.
  5. Did the entity suffer from crime committed by members of the claimant’s family or ancestors? Did the entity have to pay higher taxes, or insurance premiums, due to this crime?

I’m not saying that ALL of the above scenarios necessarily apply, only that if they do, they should be taken into consideration.

All of the above applies only to reparations for slavery. What about other injustices, that may have occurred more recently? The City of Evanston, ILL, recently enacted a reparations bill to compensate its black residents for past housing discrimination. I would apply similar standards to the ones listed above:

  1. Was there actual injustice committed against the ancestors/family of the claimant? I wouldn’t count racial segregation, by itself, as an “injustice,” because communities have a right to be segregated if they so choose. Being forced to live among other blacks should not be considered a crime, because white people have the right to their own communities. But this doesn’t mean that injustices, associated with housing, could not have occurred. If they did, and we know who the victims are, then it’s reasonable for the victims to demand compensation – with interest. I don’t know enough about Evanston’s history, or the details of the bill, to have an opinion as to whether the bill is justified. Given today’s political climate, I’m skeptical.
  2. Have the Evanston victims benefited from other, race-based, government programs? If so, then any compensation should be reduced by that amount.
  3. Did the family/ancestors of the claimants cost the City of Evanston money due to their criminal behavior? If so, then this amount should also be taken into consideration.

As a general rule, I don’t believe that people should be punished for the crimes of their ancestors, but if we’re considering any sort of reparations, then there’s no way to avoid it; somebody needs to pay for those reparations; that alone is “punishing people for the crimes of their ancestors.” Subtracting the costs of past crimes from any compensation is not “punishment” in my opinion; it’s simply part of the equation.

One other issue I wanted to put out there is that for every individual who can document that his ancestors were slaves, or suffered from a specific racist policy, there would be countless others who, though they’re descended from victims, are unable to document it. In essence, what we’d end up with is many undocumented victims subsidizing the documented ones.

I’ll conclude by saying that, though I can see specific situations where reparations might make sense, the affair get so messy that it’s best if we simply forget about the whole thing and focus on the future instead.

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