Systemic racism is good! (When progressives do it)

Vincent J. Curtis

1 May 21

RE: Racial priority for vaccinations make sense.  Spectator editor of 1 May 21.  We see here yet another case of special pleading by progressives: it’s okay when we do it, because we’re special!

This is where woke-progressivism leads: systemic racism is bad, except when progressives approve of it.  And they approve of it because it is harmful to “white folks.”  It is not enough to order vaccinations by risk; no, it must be done by race.  The excuse is that racialized people are at higher risk than “white folks,” so what is the point of flaunting the racial aspect except to make a show of moral narcissism?

As a further display of moral narcissism, the Spectator claims an onslaught of racist backlash to the racist policy of prioritizing by race – and fails to provide any evidence of such by publishing signed letters on the grounds that they’re racist!

White woke-progressives simply can’t look in a mirror and see a racist looking back at them.  Accusing others of being “white supremacists” (a term invented just recently) is like a plenary indulgence against the racism and self-contempt within.  Malcolm X thought white liberals worse than southern Klansmen.

It never occurs to woke-progressives that reluctance among “the racialized” (how’d that happen?) stems from a history of progressives to use Blacks as involuntary guinea pigs in medical experiments going back to the 1930s – the era when progressives believed in the genetic inferiority of Blacks.  When you’re born yesterday and think you’re pure, it just doesn’t.

Let’s not hear any more criticism of systemic racism from the Spectator, it just depends on the kind. 

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