Ethics Alarms doesn’t have as many readers or commenters as I’d like , but the commenters the blog has regularly make me proud to have such a thoughtful, perceptive and erudite audience. No one exemplifies this more than Mrs. Q, who has the highest ratio of Comments of the Day to comments of anyone who has ever weighed in here.
This is another Mrs Q masterpiece, in response to the Williams student protests that free speech marginalizes the marginalized. Her is her Comment of the Day on the post, Unethical Quote Of The Month: Williams College Students Protesting Campus Free Speech Guarantees…
“An ideology of free speech absolutism that prioritizes ideas over people, giving ‘deeply offensive’ language a platform at this institution, will inevitably imperil marginalized students.”
This is one of my least favorite excuses from the church of wokeness because it presumes to know just who is marginalized and how such persons interpret words & phrases. In essence the argument is “those marginalized people can’t understand nuances of opinion and everyone not fawning over their intersectional unicorn specialness, so let’s make sure to advocate for them because they can’t discern for themselves what’s offensive.”
For me the real racism has never been about white folks thinking one way or another about my skin tone or race(s). It’s always been the well-meaning utopians who want me to be their poster child for how awesome they are to be my “ally.” Peter nailed it when he said “through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you (2 Peter 2:3)…” as that is exactly what this sort of woke bigotry is…turning supposed downtrodden folks into mascots and products for other ends. Those ends are often wrapped up in warped ideas of how they think things should be, not what they are.
People of color, gays, women, trans folks, immigrants (legal & illegal), etc. have become nothing more than excuses for outright attempts at controlling minds in order to usher in a reality that will never come to pass. Worse, the rhetoric of social justice actually has a more detrimental effect on minorities because all you hear is the following:
-If you’re black you’ll likely end up in jail or poor or both.
-If you’re gay, conservatives and Christians hate you and you’ll be a depressed alcoholic.
-If you’re a biological woman, predatory men are around every corner and you’ll end up abused or raped.
-If you have gender confusion, you will commit suicide unless you get surgery & everyone affirms it, otherwise you’ll still kill yourself.
-If you’re Muslim you’ll be labeled a terrorist and probably become one because of it.
-If you’re Asian…well you get nothing unless you’re poor or an immigrant.
-If you’re Jewish…see above for the Asians unless a white supremacist doesn’t like you (but ignore BDS please)
-If you’re disabled you’ll be shunned & become homeless.These are big lies repeated to the point where some minorities actually end up believing this crap. Why bother being black or female or disabled and trying to succeed since the woke tell you there’s only a tiny chance you might. Why bother befriending conservatives or men or whites or cisgender or those who may disagree with your sense of oppression because they hate you and want you to fail.
It’s not the average American who causes high blood pressure for certain minorities – it’s those who believe themselves non-bigoted and constantly use minorities to their own ends that causes the stress. It’s exhausting to fight against such politically correct low expectations. At some point, like so many have done and will do, The Marginalized™ have to say “I’m not your social justice unicorn & can handle different opinions without your help.” Because this version of “helping” simply isn’t. It’s creating more victims and more fodder for those who profit politically and financially from it. As I have mentioned to other people of color, a lot of SJW’s are making money off minority misery. Author Tammy Bruce calls them misery merchants for good reason.
The only “protection” these students and their complicit professors are supplying is that of a mafia – whose goal is to keep certain people in ideological chains while cornering the market on fake righteousness for gain.
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The mafia analogy seems very appropriate here. Good job Mrs Q.
I have been wanting to say what I said above for a long time. Thanks again Jack.
It needed to be said, and could not have been said better.
Mrs. Q, you are a mensch.
😉
“Or just a w’ensch.”
Oy gevalt!
I consulted the Great Oracle Google prior to the post, wondering if there were a feminine version of mensch. The consensus was that it simply means a very good person, and is genderless,
Admittedly, in the US it IS more likely to be used to describe men than women. Which is why I checked.
Hear, hear.
Too many black kids being suspended for bad behavior? Well, we certainly can’t expect them to behave, we need to lower our standard! Too many black guys in jail? Well, we certainly can’t expect them to stay out of jail, so we need to let them out! Brilliant.
”Too many black kids being suspended for bad behavior?”
The Madison Metropolitan School District attempted to address that with their Behavioral Education Plan, in which they metered suspensions according to certain…um…criteria.
To the surprise of no one capable of fogging a mirror, suspensions went down yet behavioral incidents shot way up.
That’s like counterfeiters discovering it’s costing them $32 to make every $20 dollar bill and deciding to increase production.
Shielding people from accountability creates for misbehavior.
This is observed in a wide variety of institutions,from the student bodies of elementary schools to police departments.
Yeah, I personally think racists should be encouraged to broadcast their crazy opinions as loudly as they please. Then you know who those people are and it’s that much easier to avoid them and/or counteract them. Go wild, racists. Tag your racist graffiti all over facebook, twitter, and youtube. Don’t ban or remove or criminalize these kinds of things. Let everybody see what it is the racists think and who they are. It’s better to know what people actually think than pretend to everybody agrees with you. I thought the media was going to learn that lesson after Trump was elected… instead they appear to have doubled down on their fantasy that there is only one reasonable point of view on every issue which coincidentally happens to be their own point of view.
“ ‘I’m not your social justice unicorn & can handle different opinions without your help.’ ”
IMO, that’s well addressed in Jason L. Riley’s Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed.
But how do people get there, is it some Gosh I’m Nice endorphin-surging gross perversion of the Messiah Complex?
The goal of cultural Marxism is not to help minorities. The goal is to destroy democratic and capitalistic society so proper socialism can be implemented. To do this, all cultural institutions such as the family, religion, and community need to be destroyed. You can tell this strategy is doing well. Schools are convincing children that they are the opposite sex. The government is forcing the parents to allow their children to be sterilized and 13-year olds to have mastectomies. How did we get to this dystopia? Look at the last 40 years of social progress. This is the ‘right side of history’.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/doctors-speak-out-lupron-and-the-diabolical-push-to-sterilize-gender-transition-confused-kids.html