Liberal elitists have resurrected racism as their new smokescreen to distract from the reality of economic disparity. Some CEOs today make 900 times what their workers make. Millions of US citizens get up every day and go to work 40 hours a week for wages that do not sustain them. Millions of children have to be fed at school because there is not enough food at home. Bezos is the richest guy in the world and instead of building his new facility somewhere with lots of unemployed people, he dangles it over cities to see who can give him tax breaks and cheap energy. What a grubby creep!
When General Milley talked about "white rage" I immediately wondered if "white guilt" isn't really the potent force that he should be studying.
I worked, until a few months ago, for a very large prestigious bank and it was amazing to see how diversity, equity, and inclusion dogma was effortlessly folded into the corporation. And no wonder: it makes few demands on corporate business models......has nothing to say about carried interest, outsourcing, ethnic cleansing in supply chains and so on. And it especially has little to say about executive compensation.
In other words, the claims of anti-racism are essentially spiritual and fundamentalist, hardly contra class concerns of wealth. It's in fact a huge secularized religious indulgence-selling juggernaut. Indulgences sold in no small part to assuage white-guilt.
Anti-racist aims are the antithesis of what Occupy Wall Street wanted.....and corporations hated, as well as then attorney general Eric Holder who declared banks as "systemically important" and the risk of Financial Crisis prosecution melted away.
Matt, "The currency of what counts as racism has inflated like the Dutch market in the late 1920s." Believe he said "deutschemark", not "Dutch market".
We are such a strange country. it seems clear that the Democrats are morphing into a party almost exclusively for Blacks, transgenders and Latinx. And Republicans are morphing into the party of non-college educated whites, aka rednecks. I can't think of any other country where the traditional elite, and still the largest chunk of voters, the white and Asian middle and upper class, are unwanted by all. Even weirder, most of that group still hugs closely to the Democrats, who increase their taxes and call them racists in return.
Thank you for interviewing Professor Reed. My husband and I enjoyed the UI episode and we think you and Katie should consider having Reed on as a regular guest. Reed's wisdom should be heard by as many generations of Americans as possible.
Speaking as a biologist who works on disease, I think there is a link to being black and brown. One link is simple, vitamin D and A. Black people have some of the lowest vitamin D levels in the country, which is because most don't like to get darker, so they stay out of the sun, and they need a lot more sun than white people do to keep their vitamin D up.
For the native Americans, there is a different genetic issue. We are here because 95%+ of native Americans died from the European disease pool. Primarily, that was influenza and coronaviruses. The observation that the natives died - entire villages of them - was the origin of the phrase, "Manifest destiny." We didn't understand the germ theory of disease back then.
That said, otherwise, I think Reed is quite correct.
I wonder if Di Angelo is on the spectrum--socially awkward with no filter, earnest sharing without any humor or capacity for gauging her audience, and attraction to ideological crutches as cover for her insuperable difficulty negotiating nuanced social situations that also help her earn a living.
"However, he’s deeply at odds with “antiracist” thinkers like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi, which has put him on the outs with current intellectual fashion in some segments of the political left." Do you mean segments of the political left who are tolerant and can read?
Reed is wrong to abandon the class, not race, argument. The disparities in life outcomes are nearly all explainable by number of adults in the household engaged with raising the children. Read Daniel Patrick Moynihan's prophetic report; it is predictive. When corrected for number of parents in the child's household, outcomes are nearly identical. Regardless of race, people who were raised by single adults have near-identical outcomes in housing, employment, incarceration, health, education and all other outcomes. The same is true of those raised in multi-adult households. Race doesn't influence outcome, number of parents do. But, you can't build a multi-trillion-dollar race war profiteering industry by admitting to the truth.
And, by the way, the amount of melanin in the skin affects how much Vitamin D is created. Vitamin D plays a key role in defending against viruses. The more melanin, the less Vitamin D. For children living in high-rise housing projects, the omni-present babysitter, the television, sees plenty of the kids during the day. There are few green spaces in which to play, and playgrounds are too often the province of drug dealers. So, children of color get less sunlight (less Vitamin D), less time outside (almost impossible to infect another outdoors), and are more apt to be raised on a non-healthy diet. It's real.
"But because statistically speaking, young Black men were more likely to commit crimes than other people. And the thing was outrageous, of course, the argument was outrageous, . . . '' Unsubstantiated assertion, unless "of course" counts as substantiation.
Even if I don't agree with him on anything else, at least he doesn't subscribe to the woke disease, which means he's intellectually honest and one could actually have a debate with him. Similar to Zizek.
I don't claim to be up on leftist politicians, but this seems odd to me, as a libertarian, looking in to the different left factions. This anti-race stuff and critical race theory just looks like Marxism with a new face. Like they couldn't sell class warfare here, but they can sell this and slide Marxism in. BLM claims to be Marxist. So I find this odd. It looks like the perfect vehicle to pull it off.
Chris Hedges quoted a Simpson's scene thst sums up the insanity of identity issues burying issues of equality.
Lecturer: "5 white men own 90% of the world's wealth!"
Lisa: "that's terrible!"
"2 of them should be women and 3 should be people of color!"
Liberal elitists have resurrected racism as their new smokescreen to distract from the reality of economic disparity. Some CEOs today make 900 times what their workers make. Millions of US citizens get up every day and go to work 40 hours a week for wages that do not sustain them. Millions of children have to be fed at school because there is not enough food at home. Bezos is the richest guy in the world and instead of building his new facility somewhere with lots of unemployed people, he dangles it over cities to see who can give him tax breaks and cheap energy. What a grubby creep!
When General Milley talked about "white rage" I immediately wondered if "white guilt" isn't really the potent force that he should be studying.
I worked, until a few months ago, for a very large prestigious bank and it was amazing to see how diversity, equity, and inclusion dogma was effortlessly folded into the corporation. And no wonder: it makes few demands on corporate business models......has nothing to say about carried interest, outsourcing, ethnic cleansing in supply chains and so on. And it especially has little to say about executive compensation.
In other words, the claims of anti-racism are essentially spiritual and fundamentalist, hardly contra class concerns of wealth. It's in fact a huge secularized religious indulgence-selling juggernaut. Indulgences sold in no small part to assuage white-guilt.
Anti-racist aims are the antithesis of what Occupy Wall Street wanted.....and corporations hated, as well as then attorney general Eric Holder who declared banks as "systemically important" and the risk of Financial Crisis prosecution melted away.
Adolph Reed on political economy and culture (and sports, too, amazingly) is like Oscar Wilde on art: he's right about everything.
Matt, "The currency of what counts as racism has inflated like the Dutch market in the late 1920s." Believe he said "deutschemark", not "Dutch market".
We are such a strange country. it seems clear that the Democrats are morphing into a party almost exclusively for Blacks, transgenders and Latinx. And Republicans are morphing into the party of non-college educated whites, aka rednecks. I can't think of any other country where the traditional elite, and still the largest chunk of voters, the white and Asian middle and upper class, are unwanted by all. Even weirder, most of that group still hugs closely to the Democrats, who increase their taxes and call them racists in return.
This is great. Love Adolph Reed.
Thank you for interviewing Professor Reed. My husband and I enjoyed the UI episode and we think you and Katie should consider having Reed on as a regular guest. Reed's wisdom should be heard by as many generations of Americans as possible.
Speaking as a biologist who works on disease, I think there is a link to being black and brown. One link is simple, vitamin D and A. Black people have some of the lowest vitamin D levels in the country, which is because most don't like to get darker, so they stay out of the sun, and they need a lot more sun than white people do to keep their vitamin D up.
For the native Americans, there is a different genetic issue. We are here because 95%+ of native Americans died from the European disease pool. Primarily, that was influenza and coronaviruses. The observation that the natives died - entire villages of them - was the origin of the phrase, "Manifest destiny." We didn't understand the germ theory of disease back then.
That said, otherwise, I think Reed is quite correct.
I probably would not agree with this guy on a whole host of things but I bet he would be a blast to sit and have a beer with.
I wonder if Di Angelo is on the spectrum--socially awkward with no filter, earnest sharing without any humor or capacity for gauging her audience, and attraction to ideological crutches as cover for her insuperable difficulty negotiating nuanced social situations that also help her earn a living.
"However, he’s deeply at odds with “antiracist” thinkers like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi, which has put him on the outs with current intellectual fashion in some segments of the political left." Do you mean segments of the political left who are tolerant and can read?
Reed is wrong to abandon the class, not race, argument. The disparities in life outcomes are nearly all explainable by number of adults in the household engaged with raising the children. Read Daniel Patrick Moynihan's prophetic report; it is predictive. When corrected for number of parents in the child's household, outcomes are nearly identical. Regardless of race, people who were raised by single adults have near-identical outcomes in housing, employment, incarceration, health, education and all other outcomes. The same is true of those raised in multi-adult households. Race doesn't influence outcome, number of parents do. But, you can't build a multi-trillion-dollar race war profiteering industry by admitting to the truth.
And, by the way, the amount of melanin in the skin affects how much Vitamin D is created. Vitamin D plays a key role in defending against viruses. The more melanin, the less Vitamin D. For children living in high-rise housing projects, the omni-present babysitter, the television, sees plenty of the kids during the day. There are few green spaces in which to play, and playgrounds are too often the province of drug dealers. So, children of color get less sunlight (less Vitamin D), less time outside (almost impossible to infect another outdoors), and are more apt to be raised on a non-healthy diet. It's real.
"But because statistically speaking, young Black men were more likely to commit crimes than other people. And the thing was outrageous, of course, the argument was outrageous, . . . '' Unsubstantiated assertion, unless "of course" counts as substantiation.
Does this mean I can say "all lives matter" without being labeled a racist?
Reed offers the granularity of understanding required. Great interview.
Even if I don't agree with him on anything else, at least he doesn't subscribe to the woke disease, which means he's intellectually honest and one could actually have a debate with him. Similar to Zizek.
I don't claim to be up on leftist politicians, but this seems odd to me, as a libertarian, looking in to the different left factions. This anti-race stuff and critical race theory just looks like Marxism with a new face. Like they couldn't sell class warfare here, but they can sell this and slide Marxism in. BLM claims to be Marxist. So I find this odd. It looks like the perfect vehicle to pull it off.