Monday, April 19, 2021

A good debate in danger of being derailed

 Quin Hillyer has joined the debate with an article that came under the title: “Why does Biden let the UN ambassador tell the world the US is racist?” published on April 17, 2021 in The Washington Examiner.

 

Hillyer embarked on a debate that America needs to have. The trouble is that of those who already joined, and those who will eventually join, a good number will spoil the debate, even sabotage it intentionally or inadvertently. Hillyer has come close to being one of those, which is why it is important to set aside the merit of his argument for now, and concentrate on parsing the mentality that's powering that argument.

 

Hillyer began his presentation, powered by the Jewish mentality of pointing out the close relationship that exists between America's ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield and the Rev. Al Sharpton whom he described as having a history of helping foment riots, fostering anti-Semitism and evading taxes. Insult of this kind being the starting point where the Jewish haggling begins its journey to end up in the Judeo-Yiddish sewer, you immediately realize that Quin Hillyer's article will not advance the debate one inch. But if he is not doing that, what is he trying to do?

 

Well, instead of acknowledging the reality that there is a certain amount of insidious racism in America, and offering ideas on how to eradicate it (with the same fervor that he argues about combating anti-Semitism) Hillyer went on a rant that brought to light several points, each of which demonstrates, despite his denials, that racism has existed and continues to exist in America. Furthermore, these points show that people of goodwill have tried to combat racism, but have not succeeding as yet. Perhaps they are not succeeding because characters like Quin Hillyer are sabotaging their effort.

 

For example, he mentions Jefferson's inclusion of the sentence, “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence, without demonstrating that it means “individuals are equal” and not “states are equal,” which was Jefferson's declared intention. But even if we assume that Jefferson meant otherwise, Hillyer would still have to explain how considering a Black person as worth 3/5 a White person, makes it so that racism never existed in America or that it is now less serious a problem than anti-Semitism.

 

Hillyer goes on to say that, “White supremacy was not woven into our founding principles. Instead, our principles undermined the practice of white supremacy.” This is his way of saying there may be white supremacists in America, but no institution was ever tainted by that horrible principle. You like this idea so much, you want to say to him: “I want to believe you Quin, I hope you are right,” but before you're finished saying it, he mugs you with the following:

 

“This is a society that bled a half-million lives to eradicate slavery, which 57 years ago passed the Civil Rights Act, which has practiced affirmative action for half a century, and which aggressively promotes anti-racism in public life [to counter] the racist views of some benighted individuals”.

 

It is obvious that Quin Hillyer does not realize that because half a million people were killed in a civil war, he must accept the reality that half the nation wanted to abolish slavery against the will of the other half. The good half won the war, but then what happened? The bad half was not kicked out of the country. On the contrary, it was absorbed by the good half that nevertheless neglected to “De-confederalize” the South. And this is what prompted the woke crowd of the twenty first century to start working on fixing the problem; which it did in its own peculiar way.

 

And that must be the reason why, like Hillyer says, 57 years ago, America felt compelled to pass the Civil Rights Act, practice affirmative action for half a century, and aggressively promote anti-racism. But did that work? It is obvious that it did not. It did not because those who are affected by it –– and there are millions of them, from the downtrodden to the highly accomplished executives –– say that all those efforts have not worked as well as hoped for. It is that when push comes to shove, the color of their skin, and not the content of their character, determines how they are treated by others.

 

Still, many of them agree that progress has been made, but one of two things must have also happened simultaneously. Either progress has stalled, or there has been a regression. This is not too difficult to see, given that physical aggression against Asians has picked up dramatically from the days when they were only referred to as Pakis and Yellow Bellies, but not beaten up. And if we are to believe the Jewish organizations that constantly complain about the rise of anti-Semitism, there has been an increase there too. And so, given that this is the current trend in America, only someone that’s deeply, deeply foolish would venture to say that anti-Black racism has not increased in some ways, in some places.

 

This brings us to the Quin Hillyer article and those of the criminally insane that were hypnotically programmed to jump the gun and make all kinds of insane accusations when someone that's not a Jew says they are badly treated and wish to be treated better. It’s all they want; nothing more than that.