‘Go Back to Europe’? You Mean, Where They Speak Foreign Languages?
Posted on | July 20, 2010 | 45 Comments
The Brown Beret protester yells at white Tea Party protesters through a megaphone: “Go back to Europe! You don’t belong here!”
Via Memeorandum and Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, where the focus is on the racism of the Chicano militant group colloquially known as “The Klan With a Tan.”
Allow me to suggest that let’s not scream “raaaaacism” at these idiots. Rather, let’s point out the ironic absurdity of someone whose native language is Spanish telling other people to “go back to Europe.”
Think about the moronic Luddite impulse on display here. Not only is this lady’s language imported from Europe, but she’s yelling through a bullhorn — a device employing technology invented by Euro-Americans like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. And she’s yelling outside a baseball stadium (Abner Doubleday?) in Anaheim, a town founded by German settlers in 1857.
Where did the Brown Berets get the inspiration for this kind of rhetoric? It was not from the Klan or the Know-Nothings or other white nativist groups. Rather, the roots of Chicano radicalism — like so many other contemporary radicalisms — can be traced to the 1960s.
This megaphone-wielding moron isn’t imitating the Klan or neo-Nazis, she’s imitating SDS, SNCC, the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground. She isn’t mimicking J.B. Stoner or George Lincoln Rockwell, but rather Mark Rudd, Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton and Bernardine Dohrn.
Yelling “raaaaacism” at these ethnic hustlers doesn’t achieve the same effect as when liberals scream “raaaaacism” at conservatives. Why? Because the the Brown Berets’ implicit claim to legitimacy is rooted in the radical conception of non-whites as universally victimized.
Conservatives don’t really win any important argument merely by pointing out that militant are racist, because the radical rhetoric of the militants is cloaked in the sacred mantle of victimhood. If their claims of victimhood are valid, then their militancy is justified.
Debunk the victimhood narrative, however, and you have exposed the militants as peddlers of a bogus mythology, charlatans who are not authentic spokesmen for any legitimate grievance.
Therefore, let me point out that, judging by her greater fluency in Spanish than English, this Brown Beret woman is evidently not a native Californian, a fact that would tend to undermine her authority to tell other people living in California to “g0 back to Europe” or anywhere else. (Really, why should she single out Europeans? Does she have no quarrel with the immigrants from Korea, Pakistan and Kenya who have taken up residence on the sacred soil of Atzlan?) And far from seeking the universal oppression of Latinos, not only did these Tea Party protesters — supposedly hateful white racists – fail to inflict violence on her, but on none of them even suggests that she “go back” to wherever she came from.
She is manifestly a non-victim.

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