The New Racism-And its totalitarian agenda

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The New Racism-And its totalitarian agenda
Frontpagemagazine
Aug 17, 2020
David Horowitz

This violent spring and summer, two runaway best-sellers provided the theoretical framework for the anti-white racism that lay behind the Black Lives Matter riots. One was White Fragility, which explains that white people are racists by birth, regardless of anything they say, do, or intend.[1] The other was How To Be An Antiracist by a National Book Award recipient named Ibram X. Kendi, which The New York Times hailed as, “The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”

How To Be An Antiracist is already a required text in schools across the nation. It is a manual on how to use flexible definitions of “hate” to demonize and destroy political opponents. How To Be An Antiracist provides a rationale for the efforts of leftwing activists to redefine racism as meaning any viewpoint that doesn’t agree with theirs. In short, it is a handbook of totalitarian ideology.

The intellectual level and factual basis of both these highly praised books are so low as to be bewildering. Kendi’s text, inspired this ribald reference from the liberal Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi: “antiracism, a quack sub-theology that in a self-clowning trick straight out of Catch-22 seeks to raise awareness about ignorant race stereotypes by reviving and amplifying them.”[2] Nonetheless Kendi’s atrocious tract has been showered with lavish patronizing praise and is number two in the nation

The success of these books (and a rash of others like the Oprah-sponsored trash – Caste, which compares America’s treatment of black to Hitler’s treatment of Jews) is explicable only in terms of the anti-American anti-white hysteria that has swept the constituencies of the political left including its high culture since the 2016 election. This hysteria has led to preposterous claims like this Kendi statement: “Racist ideas have defined our society since its beginning and can feel so natural and obvious as to be banal, but antiracist ideas remain difficult to comprehend, in part because they go against the flow of this country’s history.”

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