Huff Post: Classical Liberalism Is “Fancy Racism”

There is nothing you can do to escape the charge of “racism.” As the Sarah Jeong episode illustrated, the term is now just a tool which is used to bludgeon White people:

“The world would not be quite so riven with death and destruction if America’s political elite had better taste in music. Classic rock, for instance, is a fraud. It never existed. Jimmy Page never turned to Robert Plant and said, “Hey, let’s start a classic rock band.” Led Zeppelin did not imagine itself to be part of a sonic movement that included Billy Joel ? that idea came from corporate radio gurus in the 1980s, and they called their marketing concoction “classic rock.”

The same is true for “classical liberalism,” a moniker currently en vogue among a particular right-wing set that would very much like to be described as intellectuals, including House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss and YouTuber Dave Rubin. …”

The term “racist” has become a synonym for White person.

It usually means any White person with rightwing politics but by defining racism as “privilege + power,” demonizing whiteness as such and making room for “unconscious racism” it can be stretched to include White leftists who do anything that a “person of color” might object to.

I don’t care when these people call me a “racist.” I understand that they seriously believe that everyone who is White is a “racist” on the grounds of their whiteness. The term is meaningless and needs to be discarded and more White people are waking up and coming around to our point of view.

Note: Paul Ryan’s 3% Jewish ancestry doesn’t count for much in the eyes of Huff Post.