by Smitty
I’ve been busier than a fringe candidate trying to figure out how to stay in the Presidential race lately, and blogging has suffered. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been reading blogs and thinking. There is a crucial point to be made if we cast the recent Derbyshire article, as well as less recent sackings like Jaun Williams into a Maslow context. I’d like to show that, once again, the Progressives are taking a Postmodern wrecking ball to the Enlightenment, and destroying rational debate. And I’ll conclude that racism is what you do, not what you feel.
Maslow
Physiology and safety form the base of the pyramid.
If someone is unwilling to admit even an occasional bit of uneasiness when outside of their comfort zone, irrespective of personal resemblence to a surrounding crowd of strangers, well: OK. It’s your story, tell it any way you like. Williams:
“I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
A Personal Note
My experience with a xenophobic physiological reaction came at a bar in Albany, Australia. 
In a bar, I turned to see a woman who was barely five feet tall, dark skinned and had a single, massive supraorbital ridge that hung over eyes befitting a wolf. I nearly jumped out of my skin. But this was just base instincts talking; once the reaction rolled up to Maslow’s esteem level, where respect for others comes in, I understood, and tried to master, my response. Probably some of it showed on my face. I’m sure that, given time (this was the only time I ever saw her) I would have discovered a typical person, with the usual five level Maslowian hierarchy of needs. But am I a
raaaaacist, according to the modern Lefty definition, as a result of this?
A Certain Carpenter Of Old
A couple millenia back, a certain peasant made an observation:
Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Matt 15:11
And I submit that this is precisely what we’re talking about here. Racism is not a physical reaction to a person whose heritage is at variance with one’s own. If that were the case, racism would be tantamount to temptation, which Jesus himself dealt with in Matthew 4. Look more closely at 8 and 9:
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Is this where our Ruling Class have strayed? Perhaps so. As I was mentioning a couple weeks back, viewing the population as a plane of Maslowian pyramids:
So that plane of pyramids, as the society reproduces, must be trained to halt their growth at the lowest, fleshy level.
The spiritual and intellectual levels must be attacked and leveled, so that humans can be reduced to child-like contentedness.
And when those sheep refuse to be content with their chocolate ration, they must be beaten down with any emotional tool at hand: fear, guilt, shame, envy.
Summary
This race card is indeed powerful, beacuse it bulldozes the intellectual and spiritual layers off of Maslow’s hierarchy. The Left cheerfully bemoans the need for a “conversation about race”, and, when any sort of response to Holder’s Nation of Cowards charge comes up, the speaker is beaten down.
Say what you want, for or against Derbyshire’s article. I haven’t given it more than a skim. However, if there was shred #1 of leadership, of any follow-through whatsoever from #OccupyResoluteDesk using his purported racial healing powers, BHO would’ve say words to the effect that “Well, Derbyshire’s opinion is what it is, and we will now leverage our American Exceptionalism to belie his statements.”
Yet here again, we see Barack doubling down on the side of wrong, tempting his followers to connect the dots between him and Trayvon Martin. This is nothing but an anti-intellectual appeal to emotion, and a shameful tearing at the Rule of Law in the process. Lord have mercy on you, Barack Obama, in such an exalted leadership position, and playing the thug.
And so, resist we much. For my part, I don’t imaging how the Left can continue to flog this dead horse of racism. They’re getting thrown back as badly on the Trayvon propaganda as they were on Sandra Fluke.
The internet is proving too strong for the necessary air brushing. Even though, as Bill Whittle points out, we’ve a couple of generations of dunces that have to burn through what I’ll call “Fogress”, the Commie Fog of Progress, we will get ‘er done, or rather famously die trying, I expect.
Lesson 1: anything these Lefty jackwagons tell you, e.g. “You’re a racist if you get creeped out by an unfamiliar, potentially unsafe situation” is just wrong. Lefties are not merely at variance with truth due to simple human error. Rather, it seems likely they are deliberately twisting facts, possibly because they are bent on reducing you to animal-like slavery.
Sounds a trifle heavy, but there it is.
For the Christian Readers
The Left deploys the race card in ways that are unabashedly Satanic; we’ve witnessed deliberate falsification of almost every aspect of the Trayvon Martin tragedy. But the pattern goes much further back. I am dumbfounded that anyone can claim Christianity and be on the Left. As far as I can tell, the Whore of Babylon mentioned in Revelation meets the criteria for Progressivism. Let her return to Hell, and take the race card with her.
Update: linked by Dyspepsia Generation
