What’s wrong with these people at The Heritage Foundation? Are they not the ones promoting the idea of taking all kinds of measures to stamp out antisemitism? Look at them now trash its twin, the idea of stamping out racism in schools, efforts which are taken by implementing the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) measures.
Trashing the idea of DEI is what Jonathan Butcher of the
Heritage Foundation, did in the article he wrote under the title: “DEI has
failed; we do not need more of it,” published on January18, 2023 in The
Washington Times.
Whereas it is the Jews themselves who say that the
measures taken to combat antisemitism have failed as shown by the continued
rise of antisemitism, it is people like Jonathan Butcher who say that DEI has
failed, but show no convincing evidence of the claim. And yet, these people are
among those advocating the intensification of the measures to combat
antisemitism — as demonstrated by the article published below this one and titled,
“The hypnosis deniers and their
secretive work” — while trashing the measures which are meant to combat
racism in schools.
Why the hypocritical and shameless double standard of
promoting the Jewish failure to stamp out antisemitism while trashing the
apparent success of the multiracial experiment to stamp out racism in American
schools? To answer that question, we need to compare the reality of what’s
unfolding on the ground against what both the DEI and the antisemitism movements
are trying to combat.
DEI says that America started as a people — from the old
world — who settled in a land they said was newly discovered, thus called the
new world. They were fair-skinned free people, as free as anyone could be at
the time, and lived accordingly. This included the freedom to deny to others
the opportunity to live as freely as themselves. As to those others, they were
dark-skinned people whom the fair-skinned imported from Africa, and treated as
slaves.
Four centuries later, slavery was abolished in America,
leaving behind a culture that is struggling to shake off its dreadful legacy.
This is what sparked the current debate on the many issues relating to the
history of the event, whether or not a cultural residue still exists — and if yes,
how can it be erased?
On one side of the debate, there are the descendants of
the former slaveowners and their supporters who are of the fair-skinned (mostly
White) group. On the other side of the debate, there are the descendants of the
former slaves and their supporters who are of the dark-skinned (mostly Black)
group.
Those in the first group see themselves as nativists who cannot
be held responsible for the sins of their forefathers. Besides, they contend
that America has redeemed itself by abolishing slavery. According to this
theory, those in the Black or Colored group must acknowledge the reality that
they have been accepted as full citizens of the country, that they were
compensated for what losses they may have incurred, and were rewarded as happened
in the cases where reverse discrimination, known as Affirmative Action, favored
Black candidates running for positions against White candidates.
As to the Black debaters and their supporters, they point
out that slavery may have been formally abolished by legislation, but two other
realities have not. These are the reality that Whites continue to benefit from
the legacy left behind. And the reality that being so privileged, stands in the
way of them being able, however hard they may try, to erase the discriminatory
residue which continues to linger in their hearts and their subconscious minds.
These Whites may feel they succeeded in getting rid of all that, but the Colored
people know otherwise; they who must live with the Whites’ occasional, even if
inadvertent slippages.
Had this been the only debate going on in America,
solutions could have been found to help mitigate what troubles debaters on both
sides of the issues. Unfortunately, however, another set of issues came to
overlay the first, thus complicating the debate. That set pertains to the
matter of rising antisemitism in America and the world, and what to do about
it.
As stated earlier, there are people who promote the idea
of taking all kinds of measures to stamp out antisemitism in America while at
the same time trashing its twin, the idea of stamping out racism in schools by
taking the necessary Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
(DEI) measures.
To appreciate how injurious to the dignity of the
“colored” communities in America that stance has become, we need to understand
what it does to them in practical terms. Thus, imagine a character of the
Jonathan Butcher mentality, sitting on one side of the table, facing two individuals,
one representing White-Jewish America; the other representing Black and Colored
America.
The Black individual says that the existing situation can
no longer be tolerated because it entails privileging and compensating Weinstein
in America at his expense and the expense of other Americans who are asked to
pay the price for sins committed against Epstein in Germany, not by Americans
but by the local sinners of an earlier era. This is robbing the innocent to
compensate a fake victim for sins committed long ago and far away by perpetrators
that were made to pay the price already.
The Jew responds by saying he is opposed to what the
Blacks are seeking because it will cost taxpayers too much to compensate the
descendants of all those who were injured. He adds that what’s wrong with what
the Blacks do, is that they feel compelled to justify their demands by speaking
ill of America’s past. Their arguments may be correct in historical terms, say
the Jew, but the way that the past has created an impossible situation to erase,
Blacks must forgive and forget — and never try to emulate the Jews who will
never forgive or forget the Holocaust.