Vincent J. Curtis
29 Sept 2016
Perhaps because it happened near
the end of the debate, when moderator Lester Holt was turning his attention to
Donald Trump, Hillary loosed her “implicit bias” remarks and they went by practically
unnoticed. Hillary’s “implicit bias”
comment lies at the heart of her belief that Trump supporters belong in a “basket
of deplorables.” It is key to
understanding her pandering towards the Black community. It forms the basis of her moral superiority
that, in her mind, and gives her the right to say who belongs in her basket of
deplorables and who doesn’t.
Hillary says that “racists,
sexists, homophobes, xenophobes, Islamophobes” belong in her basket of deplorables.
In addition, she reserves the right to
declare what precisely amounts to racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, and
Islamophobia. If, for example, you think
Miss Universe 1996 is breaking her contract with you by rapidly gaining 60 lbs
in the course of her term and you demand that she lose the weight, well, that
makes you a “fat-shaming” sexist, even if the concept of “body-shaming” did not
exist when you made those remarks.
The “implicit bias” (which Hillary
must be free of) remark was made in response to the rioting in Charlotte,
NC. When speaking of police shootings in
general, Hillary said, “I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not
just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump
to conclusions about each other.”
Actually, implicit bias can’t be a
problem for everyone, for if it were, then to observe it in others could simply
be an example of it in yourself. The
only solution to this dilemma of logic is to hold that you and your group of
supermen and superwomen are above that, and therefore are able to see implicit
bias in others without suffering from it yourself. Of course, how do you know that you actually
belong to the supergroup is another problem, but it takes time to come to
that. (It leads to an infinite regress,
which means that the solution is impossible.)
So, what is Hillary’s solution to
the problem of “implicit bias” in police officers, even black ones? “When it comes to policing, since it can have
literally fatal consequences, I have said, in my first budget, we would put
money into that budget to help us deal with implicit bias by retraining a lot
of our police officers.”
This is where the logical dilemma
becomes obvious. If we all suffer from
implicit bias, who is going to train whom, and in what?
Hillary’s solution to the dilemma
is to hold that she and her group of progressivist supermen and superwomen know
best, and so they are the ones who are going to develop the re-education
programs.
If you are a Hillary supporter,
that makes you one of the progressivist elite who can see bigotry in others but
do not suffer from it yourself. You have
the moral right, indeed, the moral obligation, to accuse, denounce, and fix
those whom you decide are bigoted and are expressing the implicit bias they suffer
from. And because you belong to Hillary’s
elite, you don’t have to establish your credentials or prove your case to your
moral inferiors, first because they don’t deserve to have your superiority
proven to them, and secondly, they wouldn’t understand it anyway. They just need to be fixed.
Progressivism is the
good cause, and because in progressivism truth is relative, the actual facts of a particular
case don’t matter. The larger narrative
is what matters. Whether Michael Brown
was assaulting a police officer when he was killed and didn’t have his hands up,
doesn’t matter. It’s the contribution to
the larger narrative of injustice suffered by blacks exemplified by the gentle
giant Michael Brown being killed that matters.
Whether a convicted felon who was carrying a gun and failed to obey repeated
police orders to drop it and was shot and killed by a police officer who was
also black doesn’t matter. What is important is the narrative that police
departments are hunting down innocent black men and shooting them for no good
reason. Black or not, if they’re police,
they’re racists looking to kill black men.
This is what Hillary is talking
about. You have biases you don’t even
realize, unless you are one of her supporters.
You are not American, you are irredeemable. Even if you graduate from one of her
re-education camps, you are still suspect.
This is the intellectual world
inhabited by the likes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the rest of the
progressivist elites. This is what she
gave us a glimpse of with her “implicit bias” remarks. Earlier in the campaign, she promised blacks
that as a representative of the white race, she would have a word with the rest
of the white race concerning their biases towards blacks. Hillary thinks herself innocent of racism.
Too bad Hillary’s world is too
deep to discuss in a presidential debate, but here you can see plainly where
Hillary and her friends are coming from.
When Donald Trump said that Hillary Clinton is a bigot, he likely said
more than he knew.
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