{"id":30790,"date":"2015-03-27T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30790"},"modified":"2015-03-24T21:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T01:36:48","slug":"racism-reverse-racism-and-triple-dog-dare-you-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/27\/racism-reverse-racism-and-triple-dog-dare-you-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism, reverse racism, and triple-dog-dare-you racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Goad<\/a> is competing for the title of the man who gets the most hate mail. This column is his latest attempt to infuriate the perpetually offended and record a new high score in outrage and online abuse:<\/p>\n

Some would agree that there is indeed no such thing as \u201creverse racism,\u201d but they\u2019d argue so for different reasons than the authors. They\u2019d say racism is racism no matter who\u2019s practicing it. Unlike the authors of Is Everyone Really Equal?<\/em>, at least they\u2019re being consistent.<\/p>\n

But sensible citizens such as you and I realize that the voodoo term \u201cracism\u201d is purely a social construct and thus has no innate meaning. That\u2019s why different groups are always fighting one another to define it. The ability to define words is the root of cultural power. In my lifetime, the word\u2019s definition has expanded with the ravenousness of a malignant tumor. Nowadays, everything white is racist. Even pointing that out is racist. And it\u2019s racist of me for making fun of the fact that pointing this out is racist. And every word I keep saying from hereon out merely compounds the racism.<\/p>\n

Will this tired conga beat never end? \u201cNonwhites cannot be racist\u201d is a transparently nonsensical statement. It\u2019s a freeze-dried and vacuum-sealed bag of pure bullshit, one of those innately fraudulent Newspeak mantras that bother me more every time I hear them \u2014 you know, obvious lies such as \u201calcoholism is a disease,\u201d \u201crape has nothing to do with sex,\u201d and \u201crace doesn\u2019t exist, but racism is rampant.\u201d It\u2019s an idea that makes no sense, which may be why its proponents feel compelled to constantly hammer you in the head with it until you finally relent merely because your head hurts.<\/p>\n

More importantly, it\u2019s a blatant act of moving the goalposts. It\u2019s an attempt to redefine the term \u201cracism\u201d in a way that effectively silences whites and cripples their ability to address the topic with any level of meaning, honesty, or emotion.<\/p>\n

You may counter that I\u2019m merely whining at the fact that my privileges are being taken away from me, but what non-masochistic human being isn\u2019t going to get upset about having things taken from them? You can take candy from either a baby or a 90-year-old, and they\u2019ll both still cry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Goad is competing for the title of the man who gets the most hate mail. This column is his latest attempt to infuriate the perpetually offended and record a new high score in outrage and online abuse: Some would agree that there is indeed no such thing as \u201creverse racism,\u201d but they\u2019d argue so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[238,912,99],"class_list":["post-30790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-offensensitivity","tag-privilege","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-80C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30792,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790\/revisions\/30792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}