Even the Brainwashers Are Brainwashed

Remember the “good old days” when racism was comprehensible.  You know, a time when white people demeaned black people and black people demeaned white ones.  That was the kind of bias that had been normative across the world since time immemorial.  Everyone—white, black, and all shades in between— “naturally” favored their own group, regarding their own people as superior to all the rest.  

Although racism always has been abhorrent on its face, in the past racial prejudice at least tended to strengthen affiliations within each racial group; racism was “honest,” loosely speaking.  In 21^st Century America, however, racist talk is mostly disingenuous manipulation intended to raise the profile of the racist speaker and to achieve his ends.  Racism always has been stupid, but contemporary racism takes stupidity to a whole new level.

Enter Harry Reid who on July 9, 2014 when speaking to reporters about the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision said,  “The one thing we are going to do during this work period, sooner rather than later, is to ensure that women’s lives are not determine by virtue of five white [emphasis added] men.”

What did race have to do with the Holly Hobby decision?  Answer: nothing.   

So why did Harry Reid interject race into his comments?   Because he was polita-speaking—double speak gerrymandering the boundaries of rationality and language to provide a sound bite intended to rally Democrats for the November 2014 election.  And nothing rallies the Democrat electorate or legislators as well as race baiting does. 

As in this case, polita-speak makes both speakers and listeners crazy, so crazy that Harry Reid forgot that one of the five male Supreme Court Justices—Clarence Thomas—is black.  You probably know that Thomas is a black man that no race mongering white or black ever forgets.  Justice Thomas is a number one target for racial slurs, most coming from black racial identity slavemasters who “Uncle Tom” him because they simply cannot tolerate an African American who doesn’t think, speak, and behave according to their racial orthodoxy norms.

Moreover, it was not Harry Reid’s first race-oriented public relations snafu.  Recall that on January 8, 2010 Reid “confessed” that during the 2008 presidential election he had referred to Barack Obama as “light skinned … with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."  The admission occurred because Reid’s comments were contained in the Mark Halperin and John Heilemann book Game Change that was being released the next week.  As expected, Reid called Barack and apologized profusely for his “poor choice of words.”   In another comical, unconsciously determined slip of the tongue, Obama responded by releasing a White House statement that said, “As far as I am concerned, the book [emphasis added] is closed."      

Regarding Reid's reference to “white men,” the term rarely is objectively descriptive in the so-called liberal progressive lexicon.  Rather, to Harry Reid and other progressives, “white men” is its own racial slur that they use mostly in polemic, political tirades.  The only greater progressive slur would be “OLD white men,” but that is an issue for another blog posting.       

The fact that Reid forgot that Justice Clarence Thomas is black illustrates that the good senator was operating on auto-think with gobbledygook flowing effortlessly from his vacuous mind.   It is noteworthy that Harry Reid, himself, actually is an elderly white man, presumably a self-hating, quasi-delusional one.

In America, demeaning remarks against white males are so hard-wired, so automatic a feature of political manipulation, that the demagogues—white and black—literally don’t even know what they are speaking about when they speak.

As Michael Jackson once sang, “It don't matter if you're black or white,” if you are a politician, you can proffer an automatic, mindless, outrageous anti-male, anti-white racist accusation at any time and expect to get away with it.  That feature of Harry Reid’s unconscious was on display in his latest fiasco and what it revealed about him and his progressive mentality was not pretty.