There’s no such thing as a free lunch: sounds Prudent – someone, somewhere, is paying for it. There’s no free racism, either, since someone is or soon will be, paying for it. Nation-wise, it’s damned expensive.
The ‘racism!’ accusation is pretty expensive, too, yet it’s tossed around like racism grows on trees. Wait, wait, wait… that advice comes from the old “… it’s not like money grows on trees, you know.” Usually it’s thrown up to someone who needs a lesson in economics. And, it’s good advice, too. Money has to be related to a value exchange; all it can be is a way to measure value, denoted in the fungible currency of the day.
Prudence advises us that racism doesn’t grow on trees, either, but it’s tossed around as if it does. Nothing backs it in terms of value except in the rarest of instances. Sadly, ‘Racism!” has become the currency of the day. It’s a little like the relative who opens every gift with the question, “How much did this cost? Do you have the receipt?” She (don’t ask, it’s always a she) also gives gifts with the price tag still attached or packed inside. The only way that person can judge or appreciate value is in terms of currency.
More and more, people – more and more people – cannot judge any other person without determining what level of racism, or anti-racism, adheres to that person. The value of the epithet is now so low that one might think that racism grows on trees. The trouble with racism, though, is that it’s a form of hatred: the more you give the more you get.
People who consider themselves “liberal” have suddenly become fully invested in racism currency, not because there is a tangible “R.O.I.,” but because the return is a thick coating of purity… of innocence. Those same declared “anti-racists” are, evidently, easily educated as to the widespread nature of racism among people who are not as anti-racist as themselves. In a mild form of “snitching” on racists around them, the anti-racists have begun to advertise their declared “anti-racism.” One can see the “Black Lives Matter” placards and the “Hate Has No Home Here” signs that imply that the homes without those advertised attitudes must be housing latent or actual racists.
The declared / advertised anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, anti-Islamophobic attitudes are, in fact, an attempt at the fabled “free lunch.” Primarily posted by white liberals, they contain an unspoken hope that when riots reach their street, their house will be safe… or their business, or their cars. Little do they realize that the racism they claim to be opposed to with all their hearts, is already being directed straight at them: their skin is the wrong color.
“But, but… I’ve got a ‘BLM’ placard in my window! We’re of the same heart and mind as you. We hate whites, too!” What? Don’t they know there’s no such thing as a free lunch? Next thing you know, white liberals are voting for any politician with brown skin, donating money to “BLM” and other black/brown-centered charities, and holding signs protesting “systemic” racism that they knew was lurking out there, even on their own streets: look at all the houses that don’t proclaim anti-racism. Racism became a mirror.
Politically, and that is ALL that is truly on the table, here, “racism” means power. That is the currency that eventually exacts a very high price for the proverbial “free lunch.” There is no such thing as a non-racist society anywhere in the world. Actual racists, who have manipulated soft Americans into believing racism is rampant here, are holding out a gaseous premise that racism can be “fixed” or “eliminated” by a universal hatred of whites. In their view – we’re talking “Black Lives Matter,” here – any rules or standards that whites attempt to live by, are so racist that black and brown people don’t have to abide by them.
Maybe that last paragraph got by you without a lot of reflection or thought. “BLM,” a communist-inspired, anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish and anti-family terrorist organization, is saying that any part of current social-cultural structure that is comfortable for white people, is so racist and foul, that it cannot be reformed and must be torn down – burned down if convenient – and replaced with the global communist dream, dominated by black and brown people. Prudence isn’t making this up – they’ve said virtually these words. There’s no free lunch, or anti-racism, in any currency.
All the placards and rainbow flags a house or yard has room for will not insulate any avowed “anti-racist” from that change. Moreover, since they are white, the spoils of “BLM’s” victory, should we stupidly permit it to come to that, will not be shared equally with anyone who is the wrong color.
Racism is normal. It’s not equitable, per se; “equity” is unrelated to racism. The only value a Constitutional republic can offer is equality: equality of opportunity. No one, as in not any person or official of any sort – no teacher, no coach, no drill instructor… not even any parent or pair of parents, can cause even two people to produce or earn or perform EQUALLY. No one. Equity implies that the results of equal opportunity are unequal because of racism, and not just crappy racism embodied in hatred of someone of one race by someone of another – bad enough – but, no, the results are unequal because of systemic racism, a blight that not only cannot be defined, but cannot be reformed.
Some truly innovative fantasies – lies, we call them – must be sold to a lot of people in order to even begin to approach the nirvana of a world without racism. Fantastic because such a world is impossible, has never existed and at the cost of millions of lives, has only been set aside temporarily except… except where people are free to worship as they wish and to perfect themselves as their individual happiness leads them. Only one place on earth has ever formed a government intended to create and maintain such a place of freedom and of equality… of opportunity.
The problem is, we haven’t fulfilled our own founding, at least, not completely. We were well on our way in the fities and sixties, but the rotten hand of leftism-socialism, often a problem for freedom in our middle century, but a threat to it only since LBJ, has almost completely shredded the fabric of freedom and responsibility, attainment and merit and even of morality. Certainly it has shredded Judeo-Christianity. Now it has weakened our ability to resist so carefully that the United States can barely afford to defend itself should it come to that. For shame, Nancy, Chuck, Barack and the rest of you, demons.
Has anything they espouse resolved racism? Not in the slightest, for they are employing hated-filled racism to fight unthinking racism. Not that racism can be eliminated. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said in a speech to the Massachusetts Great and General Court, that “…no law can make a man love me, but it can keep him from killing me.” He summed it up nicely. Government can enforce only civility, and it may adjudicate only injustice – it cannot “create” justice or enforce “fairness.” Nor are those its duties. However, an assault on one’s person, interference with his or her civil rights (including rights enumerated in the Constitution), theft or destruction of his or her property, various frauds, libels and so forth, provide a more than adequate basis for enforcing and protecting civil order. No American citizen, for any reason, should be made to bow down or kneel before anyone else, or be forced by threats of violence or loss, to swear to any idea he or she does not believe. How can people elected to lead in the United States, twist their beliefs to the extent that they can approve of or encourage the blatant subjugation of one race by another?
With hate now a political tool, principles and beliefs can be discarded, apparently. Ask our 46th “president.” Every principle he has espoused throughout his “campaign” and since winning the certifications by enough states to claim the presidency, is new. Over the nearly 4 decades he became wealthy in the House and Senate, Joe Biden stated, repeatedly, completely opposite principles to those he now governs by. It seems Prudent to wonder what sort of a man can completely change his beliefs after age, 60, say, or even after 50 years of age? An unusual one, to say the least, if not a scurrilous bastard.
Joe Biden embodies the high cost of anti-racism as government policy. Since it is impossible to achieve an anti-racist society, increasing levels of government are needed to pursue it and impose it. That is to say, fascist socialism, which has nowhere to go but to communism. Scratch an anti-racist agitator and the next layer reveals a fascist.
There is no free lunch.