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June 07, 2016
"Culture Creep:" How Americans Became So Sensitive To So Many HarmsInteresting piece, which I keep thinking of as the entire nation decides that saying "this Hispanic judge probably leans Democrat, like most Hispanics (and Judges) do" is now Vicious Racism of the sort routinely peddled in the Bull Connor Jim Crow south. A new research paper by Nick Haslam, a professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, offers as useful a framework for understanding what’s going on as any I've seen. In "Concept Creep: Psychology's Expanding Concepts of Harm and Pathology," Haslam argues that concepts like abuse, bullying, trauma, mental disorder, addiction, and prejudice, "now encompass a much broader range of phenomena than before," expanded meanings that reflect "an ever-increasing sensitivity to harm." The New Eternal Received Wisdom is that guessing that a Hispanic has the usual political leanings of most Hispanics is "racist." That seems like "vertical concept creep" to me -- taking what was previously a lesser offense (minor league politico-racial stereotyping) and upjumping it to a Major Racist Sin. If the goal of the Chattering Classes today is to take Trump out of the race, and prepare the justification for cancelling the primaries and rewriting the rules so that no delegates are bound, I can't entirely get too worked up about it, because Trump feels to me (as he felt months ago) like a sure loser in a race that cannot under any circumstances be lost. However, we once again see the Establishment of the Republicans -- the Capital Class, I call it, the Upper Middle Class Professional Classes who pretty much believe everything their liberal bed-mates do -- endorsing a fairly extremist form of the Liberal Catechism in order to do this. If I guess that a particular black woman voted for Obama, is that racist? Bear in mind something like 94% of black women did vote for Obama. Now, 6% did not. So my guess could well be wrong. But if this is my guess- are we now expanding the concept of "racism" to include "guesses made about someone's political leanings"? Is it now racist to guess things about someone based on race which are not themselves at all disparaging or negative? If I guess that a guy who looks Hispanic speaks Spanish, and I try to speak my (very beginner) level of Spanish with him -- Que tal? -- am I racist for having wrongly guessed he speaks Spanish? I could very well be wrong - and I would in fact be guilty of a kind of minor, ticky-tack racial stereotyping. No doubt, assuming someone of Hispanic lineage speaks Spanish is in fact a low-grade form of stereotyping -- many people of Hispanic descent are third, fourth, or even eighth generation Americans, and may have a level in Spanish even below my own. Let's say this would be a "microaggression" on my part -- is it now also actually racist? I agree, by the way, this would be a "microaggression" as the left defines it, and so wouldn't do it. But if I did do it -- would it actually be Felony Racism, or a much more minor case of Misdemeanor Stereotyping? Is there any difference any longer? The left has long said there's no difference; is the entire Right "intellectual" class now in full agreement with their leftist confreres? Well, the Herd Mind, without even giving this question a moment's thought, has collectively decided it is, which means that no one actually thought about it, but they all seemed to be saying the same thing, so they figured that someone among their number must have considered this. In the cases I mention above, I do understand why the Hispanic who doesn't speak Spanish would be annoyed that I assumed he did, or that a black conservative woman would be annoyed I'd assumed she'd voted for Obama. I could very well see their finding of racial fault in me. But I'd be pretty annoyed myself if they then began accusing me of actual racism based on fairly petty offenses. Apparently we are not only convinced that microaggressions are now officially Racism, but furthermore, there's not even the stirrings of debate about this; the Capital Class is, once again, all of a Single Mind on the issue. Meanwhile, the Capital Class continues studiously ignoring this: The Capital Class feels Comfortable discussing some things, and very Uncomfortable discussing other things. They don't seem to realize that this is because they have permission from the leftist culture-makers to discuss some issues, and a forbiddence from the same group from discussing others. The right establishment continues to act as a rubber stamp for the Leftist executive -- the left proposes various changes in our thinking and understanding, but it's the right establishment that blesses them and turns them into, essentially, mental legislation. I have two problems here: The first is how obvious everything seems to the never-questioning Hive Mind of Twitter-moderated "thinkers." The second is that this crew seems to be using Judge Curiel (something their liberal minders approve of them discussing) as an excuse to not talk about the San Jose riots (something their liberal minders definitely do not approve of them discussing). The police chief that sat on his hands and gave the rioters Space to Destroy is affiliated with La Raza. Is it racist to point that out? Is it just generally racist to say that anyone other than white people have ideological priors? Eh, I've got no problem replacing Trump -- other than the fact these fucks would replace him with a Rubio or some other Amnesty shill. But this points up exactly why Trump won in the first place -- because ordinary voters feel that the uniparty Capital Class has its heads up its own ass sniffing for Fart Rape and meanwhile is wholly unresponsive to their concerns. Flashback: Instapundit keeps linking this useful post by David Gerletner. Political correctness. Trump hasn't made it a campaign theme exactly, but he mentions it often with angry disgust. Reporters, pundits, and the other candidates treat it as a sideshow, a handy way for Trump (King Kong Jr.) to smack down the pitiful airplanes that attack him as he bestrides his mighty tower, roaring. But the analysts have it exactly backward. Political correctness is the biggest issue facing America today. Even Trump has just barely faced up to it. The ironic name disguises the real nature of this force, which ought to be called invasive leftism or thought-police liberalism or metastasized progressivism. The old-time American mainstream, working- and middle-class white males and their families, is mad as hell about political correctness and the havoc it has wreaked for 40 years -- havoc made worse by the flat refusal of most serious Republicans to confront it. Republicans rarely even acknowledge its existence as the open wound it really is; a wound that will fester forever until someone has the nerve to heal it -- or the patient succumbs. To watch young minorities protest their maltreatment on fancy campuses when your own working life has seen, from the very start, relentless discrimination in favor of minorities--such events can make people a little testy. The public is looking for someone to push back against this ever-proliferating regime of ever-more-baroque speech codes and Racial Diplomatic Protocols. Instead, however, every time the public looks at the political leadership on "the right," they see the establishment and intellectual class simply adding to the speech and thought strictures, and confirming all of the left's claims about "microaggressions" and fairly small-ball racial clumsiness being full-on "racism." ![]() | Access Comments | Recent Comments
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