The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer by Stella Morabito
Author:Stella Morabito
Format: epub
CHAPTER 7
Whites Dehumanized through Identity Politics, Political Correctness, and Mob Agitation
âIâm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.â âThomas Sowell, National Review
As social wounds fester, identity politics spawns social distrust and dysfunction. Political correctness cuts us off even further from open conversation with others. The agitation of mobs intimidates people into greater isolation. All these processes erode civility and grow the worst primitive instincts in people.
These mechanisms promote the narrative that revenge is justified. And, voilà , a mob can be mobilized by stimulating that destructive passion. The mob can now dish out punishment to anyone associated with the offending act, no longer to individuals who are guilty as charged according to a rule of law and due process. While identity politics segregates blacks by constantly reminding them of former oppressions, it aims to humiliate âwhitesâ by constantly accusing them of their presumed ancestorsâ role, demonizing them for things they did not do themselves.
Many willingly accept the punishment since the propaganda maintains an illusion of majority opinion. This seems to be a weakness of the so-called white demographic, particularly those in well-to-do suburbs. Working-class whites have had a lot more activist venom directed at them in recent years because of their association with populism and the 2016 presidential campaign during which Hillary Clinton labeled them a âbasket of deplorables.â²â´â·
Constant propaganda that threatens to mark whites as domestic terrorists or white supremacists takes its toll. Many become defensive and succumb to the threat rather than push back. Such were the probable internal dynamics that caused a thousand residents of an affluent white suburb to take a loyalty oath to the Black Lives Matter movement because of its superficial claims of being antiracist.²â´â¸ Yet by doing so, they marked themselves as eternally guilty of racism by accepting the BLM definition of white.
But what comprises a white identity, anyway? Advocates of identity politics have made an industry of defining the term for us. The irony is that they use the same methods of propaganda and social pressures that advocates of Jim Crow laws used in the past to get Americans to accept racism.
A century ago, âwhitesâ in America were viewed primarily as having a White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant background. Back then, the demographic did not include the great waves of European immigrants who came to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Those immigrants experienced much discrimination, even the pale-skinned Irish, who were often called âwhite-washed n-words.â The term âwhiteâ would not have included my Southern Italian grandparents, who came to America to escape poverty. Nor would it have included my maternal grandparents, who survived the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
But today, Iâm lumped in as white simply because my grandparentsâ descendants assimilated to Americaâs language, culture, and traditions. Or, as critical race theorists would put it, we âwhitened.â And so it goes for everyone assigned as white in the CRT narrative. Even if you are racial non-conforming like I am, once youâre labeled âwhite,â nothing else about you as a person matters.
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