Once again - I respond here so I don't have to deal with the drama. I'm still pondering putting this in the comments, the dude who posted this is not really a friend but rather an old colleague from work. We always got along, but I picked up that he was nutty early on. Meh, I'll have to mull it over. For now, my response stays here...
Skin color is incidental, not essential, to who someone is. It is superficial and immutable. The soft bigotry of low expectations, as pushed by white affluent leftists like John Stewart - where pigment is held up as what defines a person's worth, is both condescending, and in itself racist.
I myself don't worry too much about childish pablum like this. I'm 52 years old, and am successful light years beyond my working class upbringing. I have lived the American dream and earned every dollar I've made through hard work and treating people how I want to be treated. I know who I am, and I don't lose one wink of sleep over the sins of my ancestors or my own occasional lapses in being the best I can be. I do my best, but I'm only human. At the end of the day I sleep like a baby and when I wake up I genuinely don't care what rich leftist dummies like John Stewart, Ibram X Kendi or Robin DeAngelo think. They are infantile imbeciles and they have zero sway with me.But when I see inflammatory posts like this, I can't help but feel sad for the young gullible people who buy into this decadent self-loathing and patronization of people of color. My first question is always - what is the solution being proposed here? I understand the directions - hate yourself, look down on others, black people are helpless, white people are oppressors, etc. But what is the desired outcome and if it's a good outcome (presumably better understanding and harmony between races) how do we ever expect to get there with this insufferable anti-merit anti-American ideology?
And of course there's also part of me that also gets angry when I hear influential people shit all over their lessers. John Stewart despises white and black people equally - he wants the former to feel guilty for things they didn't do, he wants the latter to forever remain victims. I'm disinclined to indulge his nonsense, and rather inclined to extend a big middle finger in response. John Stewart and his ilk can fuck right off.
And understand this - I will never submit to this madness. I will never bend a knee to marxists. I will never cower under threat of censorship, social ostracization or loss of livelihood. And I will never apologize for standing firm in my beliefs and values.
I am never backing down, I am never going away, I am not giving ONE INCH of my liberty to marxists like Stewart and other elites. I will speak my mind, I will have my say, I will not flinch, I will not hesitate, I will NEVER surrender.
