Mark Steyn: "When I'm accused of being xenophobic or Islamophobic, thisaphobic or thataphobic, the charge is often formulated as 'otherizing' people. But the rampaging trustiefundies and psychotrannies are in effect self-otherizing - otherizing their entire civilizational inheritance, and those who still value it."
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"We are committed to tolerance, inclusion and diversity! And that's why we drive out those who commit wrongthink!"
Tender-hearted white liberals who excuse any act by blacks as being merely "upset" are our worst enemies. They are racist because they believe black people can't solve their problems without white liberal "help", even when they won't admit that's what they think. I know several people like this, and sometimes it's a real effort not to smack them in the head.
Tolerance and inclusion:It's not for everyone.
They are racist because they believe black people can't solve their problems without white liberal "help"...
Rececca, I think that stems from what they call "the soft bigotry of low expectations".
The theory behind this 'other' stuff was Edward Said's book 'Orientalism', which I tried to read 25 years ago. In the first few pages, Said implies that Marx was a racist, because Marx praised the British for building railways in India, lifting people out of feudal poverty. Said never had any alternative proposal, just a sanctimonious whine expressed in clever rhetoric which inspired moral grandstanding/status seeking by a lot of shallow people.
Said is the idiot who claimed "oriental" is racist. I still use it just to tick off idiots.
Rebecca, I always tell Tolerant Caring lefties it's White Man's Burden. They don't get the reference but it ticks them off.
I gave up trying to talk to lefties long ago, now I just point and laugh and try to get them upset. It's not all that hard.
People don't realise that Said's writings were debunked by genuine historians like Bernard Lewis, Ernest Gellner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)#Criticism
- And they don't realise that Said is actually ignoring the history of the Ottoman and Persian empires which bordered the British Empire before WW1.
The kids are also too young to remember all the 'eastern gurus' selling their snake oil as 'exotic eastern wisdom' throughout the 20th Century. They 'othered' themselves - it was their main selling point!, as reviewers 30 years ago pointed out.
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