Leftist s Racist Outrage Treadmill Revs Up Over Tucker Carlson
More than worthy of discussion, as well, is the idea argued eloquently by, for example, the eminent late philosopher Sir Roger Scruton in his England and the Need for Nations (2006) that a democratic nation cannot survive without a citizenry that shares bonds of trust based on a common cultural and historical identity and a core of common values. That sense of heritage, Scruton contends, is undermined and, what is more, gives way to zero-sum racial, ethnic, and other tribal affiliations when a flood of individuals who neither know nor care about the nation they are entering is admitted and left unintegrated.
Racism, Inc., works to stigmatize nearly all legitimate criticism of Democratic immigration policies by equating the idea that Republican voters and people with a long-standing stake in America are being replaced with the very different idea that the white race is being replaced. This new run on the outrage treadmill projects the contemporary left s obsession with race and racism onto the right.
This too will pass. Like racism, white supremacy and white nationalism before it, the Great Replacement Theory meme will prove hollow in the end. But before that happens, we can all expect to hear those words drummed into us ironically, not by the theory s ostensible proponents but by its avowed enemies. We must also send a clear message that the days of Racism, Inc. and all its manufactured outrages are numbered.
Good points. But, apparently there is some evidence for the view that recent immigrants to the US, especially Mexican-Americans, are increasingly voting Republican, in which case this Democratic strategy — and any who doubts that it is a strategy is just swallowing . . . well, you know — might backfire. It makes sense when you think about it. If you get into the hall, your view changes on whether those after you in line should also be let into the hall.