{"id":58418,"date":"2016-04-18T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58418"},"modified":"2016-04-15T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T16:16:11","slug":"the-red-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58418","title":{"rendered":"The Red Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clearly, all of America’s school problems have been solved.<\/p>\n

No, we know this, because thousands of American teachers will be taking time off during the school \u00a0year to attend a conference on “white privilege”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The annual event is aimed at promoting the theory of White Privilege \u2013 that American society is hopelessly stacked against minorities and the only way to fix the system is for white people to acknowledge their immense \u201cprivilege\u201d and repent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which brings up the two questions:<\/p>\n

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  1. What\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>“white privilege”<\/li>\n
  2. What is it that you’d have us do about it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The first? \u00a0Even asking will get you called a racists (as I found out on one particularly bobbleheaded neighborhood Facebook forum a few weeks back). \u00a0 But one BLM activist defined it for me pretty well, last summer: \u00a0it’s being able to go into a room and not have everyone wondering if you’re “one of the good ones”.<\/p>\n

    Which sounds, to me, like freedom and equality. \u00a0Which may be a “privilege”, but it’s also supposed to be one of this nation’s ideals.<\/p>\n

    As opposed to this next bit (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

    \u201cOur vision is to build a community committed to dismantling white privilege<\/strong>, white supremacy and oppression, every day, everywhere,\u201d wrote Eddie Moore Jr., founder and president of \u201cThe Privilege Institute,\u201d which organizes the event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    If “privilege” is equality, freedom, justice, and being seen as a person rather than a label, then you’ll “dismantle” it over my dead body. \u00a0You don’t gain freedom and equality by taking others’ away. \u00a0The Germans didn’t get any more free by killing Jews; the Klan got no more justice by lynching black people.<\/p>\n

    Repent,\u00a0my ass. \u00a0It’s time to spread “privilege” around to all races, classes, orientations, religions, humans.<\/p>\n

    If this is the place where the civil war starts, then lock and m********ng load.<\/p>\n

    Rhetorically speaking, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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