{"id":95347,"date":"2016-05-09T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95347"},"modified":"2016-05-09T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T20:07:35","slug":"why-the-hatred-against-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95347","title":{"rendered":"Why The Hatred Against Donald Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jayman writes March 18, 2016<\/a>: I will argue that the hatred directed towards Trump has little to do with Trump himself or his campaign. Rather, I suspect that this is more about what a Trump presidency represents: the end of our politically correct society.<\/p>\n

Why do people like me have to write anonymous blogs and columns on the internet when talking about the obvious<\/a> reality<\/a> of human biological differences (especially biological group<\/em> differences)? Why do researchers face the risk of falling into The Bermuda Triangle of Science<\/a>, as behavioral geneticist Brian Boutwell recently put it?<\/p>\n

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The academy, in general, is a wonderful place to work, but not everyone plays nice. Veer too far from carefully charted courses and someone may slip quietly up behind you and slide a cold piece of steel in between the ribs of your budding research career.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll do this believing that they are serving public interest by snuffing out dangerous research agendas, but that won\u2019t make any difference to you. It\u2019ll be your reputation that will suffer grievous injury. What in the world might elicit such harsh rebuke from a community of otherwise broadminded, free speech spouting scholars? What is so verboten that it constitutes academia\u2019s Bermuda Triangle, a place where careers disappear more often than ships in the actual Bermuda Triangle? In one word, it\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

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[R]ace represents academia\u2019s true Bermuda Triangle. Perhaps never has the topic of genetic ancestry been so important, yet despite its relevance, bright scholars continue to stay away from it in droves … It will not matter how noble you think your motives are, if you factor in race as a variable, your actions are subject to impeachment, and your reputation may be sacrificed as a burnt offering to our new religion.<\/p>\n

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Linda Gottfredson is a brilliant, productive, and innovative scholar. Dr. Gottfredson, however, found herself in the Bermuda Triangle some years back<\/p>\n

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crossing the boundaries of the Triangle (even if only to defend a colleague) can be frightening. Angry invectives hurled in your direction will come so fast, and so fierce, it will likely leave your head spinning, as Gottfredson illustrates (p.276):<\/p>\n

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News coverage was often lurid. The UD African-American Coalition argued that my work was not just offensive, but dangerous. My \u2018\u2018so-called research\u201d and the social policies I \u2018\u2018was likely to propose\u201d were \u2018\u2018liable to threaten the very survival of African-Americans\u201d (Tarver, 1990, p. 6A).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Within the Bermuda Triangle, you see, it is a free for all when it comes to accusations and motive indictment. There is no suitable defense, trying to mount in fact one will only fan the flames.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Such facts are effectively embargoed in our society, and anyone who breaks this taboo can face serious social consequences.<\/p>\n

As John McWhorter put it in his piece Antiracism, Our Flawed New Religion<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One hearkens to one\u2019s preacher to keep telling the truth\u2014and also to make sure we hear it often, since many of its tenets are easy to drift away from, which leads us to the next evidence that Antiracism is now a religion. It is inherent to a religion that one is to accept certain suspensions of disbelief. Certain questions are not to be asked, or if asked, only politely\u2014and the answer one gets, despite being somewhat half-cocked, is to be accepted as doing the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy is the Bible so self-contradictory?\u201d Well, God works in mysterious ways\u2014what\u2019s key is that you believe. \u201cWhy does God allows such terrible things to happen?\u201d Well, because we have free will \u2026 and it\u2019s complicated but really, just have faith.<\/p>\n

It stops there: beyond this first round, one is to classify the issues as uniquely \u201ccomplicated.\u201d They are \u201cdeep,\u201d one says, looking off into the air for a sec in a reflective mode, implying that thinking about this stuff just always leads to more questions, in an infinitely questing Talmudic exploration one cannot expect to yield an actual conclusion.<\/p>\n

Antiracism requires much of the same standpoint. For example, one is not to ask \u201cWhy are black people so upset about one white cop killing a black man when black men are at much more danger of being killed by one another?\u201d Or, one might ask this, very politely\u2014upon which the answers are flabby but further questions are unwelcome. A common answer is that black communities do protest black-on-black violence \u2014but anyone knows that the outrage against white cops is much, much vaster.<\/p>\n

Why? Is the answer \u201cdeep,\u201d perhaps? Charles Blow, at least deigning to take the issue by the horns, answers<\/a> that the black men are killing one another within a racist \u201cstructure.\u201d That doesn\u2019t explain why black activists consider the white cop a more appalling threat to a black man than various black men in his own neighborhood. But to push the point means you just don\u2019t \u201cget\u201d it (you haven\u2019t opened your heart to Jesus, perhaps?)<\/p>\n

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The Antiracism religion, then, has clergy, creed, and also even a conception of Original Sin. Note the current idea that the enlightened white person is to, I assume regularly (ritually?), \u201cacknowledge\u201d that they possess White Privilege.<\/p>\n

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The call for people to soberly \u201cacknowledge\u201d their White Privilege as a self-standing, totemic act is based on the same justification as acknowledging one\u2019s fundamental sinfulness is as a Christian. One is born marked by original sin; to be white is to be born with the stain of unearned privilege.<\/p>\n

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Antiracism parallels religion also in a proselytizing impulse. Key to being an Antiracist is a sense that there is always a flock of unconverted heathen \u201cout there,\u201d as it is often put about the whites who were so widely feared as possibly keeping Barack Obama from being elected (twice). One is blessed with, as it were, the Good News in being someone who \u201cgets it,\u201d complete with the Acknowledging.<\/p>\n

Finally, Antiracism is all about a Judgment Day, in a sense equally mesmerizing and mythical. Antiracist scripture includes a ritual reference to, as it were, the Great Day when America \u201cowns up to\u201d or \u201ccomes to terms with\u201d structural racism\u2014note that \u201cacknowledge\u201d is a term just as appropriate\u2014and finally, well, fixes it somehow.<\/p>\n

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Yet Antiracism as religion has its downsides. It encourages an idea that racism in its various guises must be behind anything bad for black people, which is massively oversimplified in 2015.<\/p>\n

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The fact is that Antiracism, as a religion, pollutes our race dialogue as much as any lack of understanding by white people of their Privilege. For example, the good Antiracist supports black claims that standardized tests are \u201cracist\u201d in that black people don\u2019t do as well on them as other students. But Antiracism also encourages us to ask why, oh why black people are suspected of being less intelligent than others\u2014despite this take on the tests, and aspiring firefighters and even teachers making news with similar claims that tough tests are \u201cracist.\u201d Now, to say that if black people can\u2019t be expected to take tests then they must not be as smart is, under Antiracism, blasphemous\u2014one is not to ask too many questions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a video of McWhorter discussing this for those who prefer:<\/p>\n