April 10, 2023

So they are calling the Tennessee Republicans racists because they expelled from the state legislature two Democrats that led a bull-horn armed insurrection. Of course they are, because both Rep. Justin Jones and Rep. Justin Pearson are Black. It’s just like the Redeemers after the Civil War, writes Jemar Tisby.

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Here’s my advice to the Tennessee Republicans: Don’t whiff on this. Don’t apologize. You must say something like: “Of course it was racist. Any time you make a Black person in America accountable for their actions, experts agree, that’s racist. But we believe in democracy, not race.”

Really, it’s about 50 years too late to start the pushback on the race card. But we might as well start now, rather than later.

Of course, it ain’t gonna be easy. Anything that goes against today’s ruling-class narrative, whether on race or transgender, is attacked as racist or transphobic. Even if a transgender murders a few kids for breakfast, it’s transphobic.

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When a ruling-class flunky hurls a word like Racist! or Sexist! or Homophobe! xe is using a “pejorative.” And do you know what “pejorative” means? It comes from the Latin, pejorare, which means “making things worse.”

I say that just about everything our liberal friends have done in the last century has Made Things Worse.

When it comes to fighting ruling-class pejoratives I do my bit for the cause. There’s a house on the swankiest street in my neighborhood that sports a couple of hand-painted BLM signs. Last year, when there was a neighborhood yard-sale, I commented to one of the residents:

“That sign’s racist,” I said.

“No it isn’t,” she said. “It’s anti-racist.”

“But Hegel says that racism and anti-racism are the same, only opposite,” I replied.

“Who’s Hegel,” she asked?

Bless her heart.

I think that any time your liberal friend mentions a piece they heard on NPR, you should comment: “But NPR is racist.” Same for any regime media, any time your liberal friend mentions it.

“But how can you say that,” she’ll whine.

 No problem. “It takes one to know one.”

Yes, part of the game is owning up to being a racist and not being afraid.