Thursday, January 20, 2022

The authoritarians must be stopped & THE GHOST OF JIM CROW Progressives are re-segregating American institutions under the guise of “racial equity. ”

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The authoritarians must be stopped

Eric Utter, AmericanThinker.com

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/the_authoritarians_must_be_stopped.html

 

Democrats and “progressives,” and authoritarians of all stripes, have imposed their will on the rest of us for two years now, in the form of mask and vaccine mandates.

There can’t be a worse, more dangerous, and outright evil class of people than those who want to tell others how to think and what to do. Those who would rule you and take away your liberty do not do it “for your own good.” Ever. The Founders knew this. That is why they pushed back hard against “The Intolerable Acts. It is why they tossed tea into the harbor. It is why they eventually fought the world’s mightiest military. And it is why they so valued the Right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness granted to us by our Creator.

It led Patrick Henry to proclaim, “Give me liberty or give me death.”

George Washington could have been king. He declined. He also declined to serve a third term as president, desperately wanting to return to domestic life at Mount Vernon rather than continue as the most powerful man in the nation. When England’s King George III, America’s implacable enemy, heard of this he exclaimed, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

More than 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War that others may be free.

This is our heritage as citizens of the United States of America. And I, for one, am getting damned sick of that heritage being bastardized, twisted, denied, denigrated and mocked.

The U.S. has long been the guarantor of freedom, both at home and around the world. There is a reason why Germans rushed to the West to surrender to American troops rather than be captured by Russians. The Great Communicator, who won the Cold War that followed World War II, knew how fragile liberty is. Reagan said,

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Do we want to, in effect, be that “one generation” that permits the extinction of freedom? Or do we want to hand it down to our children as our Founders did to us?

Because today, despite the clear, unyielding historical record, many in our own nation are calling for the destruction of capitalism and free markets… and the imposition of socialism and Marxism. Since time immemorial, The Left has been about one thing and one thing only: power.

To wit: does anybody truly believe those that want to ostracize the unvaccinated, tax them, fine them, take away their livelihoods, and confine them to “camps” really wish to do so out of concern for the unvaccinated? Or for anybody– or anything– else but their own power? Is this why people in need of life-saving organ transplants are being sent away if they haven’t acquiesced to the jab? Is this why those that so loudly profess deep concern for their fellow man so often make comments about those with whom they disagree like, “let them die?"

Democrats and “progressives,” and authoritarians of all stripes, have imposed their will on the rest of us for two years now, in the form of mask and vaccine mandates. At times they have told us we can’t go to work or leave our homes, have our family over for Christmas, attend church, go to weddings, visit dying relatives, or even allow more than a handful of people to grieve with us at their funerals.

What the hell, people??!!! Those that created, fought and died for this country would be equal parts stunned, devastated, repulsed, and angry if they could see it now. So much for a limited government “of, by, and for the people.”

We have let those that rule over us take away our (pursuit of) happiness and our liberty. The ultimate in taking away others’ liberty is taking away their lives. (See “let them die.”)

We must wake up from this woke nightmare and reclaim our liberty before it’s too late. Or we will sentence our descendants to perpetual servility and darkness…until the sun expires.

 

 

 

THE GHOST OF JIM CROW Progressives are re-segregating American institutions under the guise of “racial equity.”

ChristopherRufo.com

 

https://christopherrufo.com/?mc_cid=92e93b20bd&mc_eid=9bde3e8efb

Images from the Jim Crow era in America are seared into the minds of those who lived through it, and of anyone who attended an American history class after the victory of the civil rights movement: side-by-side drinking fountains with signs reading “white” and “colored”; parks and recreation facilities separated into racial enclaves; small-town main streets with whites-only theaters, restaurants, grocers, and amenities.

Fortunately, all that ended by the mid-1960s—or so we had thought. In recent years, segregation has been resurrected, but this time under the guise of “racial equity.” As I reported in late 2020, government agencies in Seattle, Washington, including the King County Library, King County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Veterans Administration, began segregating employees by race for diversity training programs, so that whites could “accept responsibility for their own racism” and minorities could be insulated from “any potential harming [that] might arise from a cross-racial conversation.”

This year, the new segregation has extended itself into new domains: public education and public-health policy. In Denver, Centennial Elementary School launched a racially exclusive “Families of Color Playground Night” as part of its racial equity programming. In Chicago, Downs Grove South High School held a racially exclusive “Students of Color Field Trip” as part of its own equity initiatives. In the words of Denver Public Schools officials, the administrators implemented the segregated program to “create a space of belonging,” which, they said, without a hint of irony, is “about uniting us, not dividing us.”

The new segregation has also been implemented in public health-care systems, with state and federal agencies denying Covid vaccines and treatment to individuals based on race. This trend began last year, when Vermont provided the vaccine to all members of racial minorities over age 16 but denied it for whites without specific age or health conditions. Later, New York State, Minnesota, Utah, and the federal government adopted health policies that explicitly discriminate against whites, rationing Covid treatments based on race. (After public outcry, Minnesota recently backtracked on this policy, and Utah announced that it is “reevaluating” its policy, but both Utah’s and New York’s arrangements remain in place as of this writing.)

The most common justification for the new segregation is that racial minorities suffer disparities that must be rectified through “positive” discrimination, which is presented as a solution for America’s historical racism. In practice, however, these policies often descend into illogic, cruelty, and malice. Minnesota’s recently rescinded criteria, for example, would have prioritized Covid treatment for a healthy 18-year-old black female over a 64-year-old white male with hypertension, who, given the totality of circumstances, faces a much greater risk of serious illness and death. The new politics of race supplants the old science of medicine, with potentially catastrophic consequences for disfavored racial groups.

How is this kind of policy even possible? As legal scholars have made clear, all of these programs are blatantly unconstitutional: they violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and, additionally, the Civil Rights Act’s prohibition against racial segregation. Nevertheless, the new segregation is slowly embedding itself in every domain of public policy. The gambit, for the progressives who support it, is to establish a new status quo—so-called “antiracist discrimination”—and to use their superior cultural power to intimidate the majority into acquiescence.

For now, they appear to be succeeding. Conservative groups, such as the Southeastern Legal Foundation, have challenged the new segregation on legal grounds, but those cases will take years to wind their way through the federal courts. Meantime, progressives are likely to solidify their position and continue to normalize the policy of “segregation for social justice.” If they succeed, they will send the country backward, reviving old antagonisms and hollowing out the Constitution’s civil rights protections.

Voters of all persuasions should be appalled by this development and work to subvert it. There is, no doubt, a strong majority of Americans who oppose state-mandated racial discrimination. Unless they speak out publicly against it, however, the new segregation will continue to spread through our institutions—threatening the foundations of civil rights law and fundamental principles of American society and government.

Originally published in City Journal.  

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