Power Line has a regular Friday feature with commentary from Ammo Grrrll. Ammo Grrrll is a nice Jewish girl. In her younger days she was liberal. In late middle age she found herself in Arizona and discovered guns and shooting. I’m not saying that guns changed her perspective, but while standing in line to purchase ammunition, she had an epiphany and suddenly found herself to be a conservative. Which came first, the guns or conservative viewpoint? This week she takes on critical race theory.
Her observation regarding Critical Race Theory struck me. However, I would take it a step further.
In the late ’70’s, and early ’80’s, various Covetous Racist Tools invented Critical Race Theory. MY theory has always been that they just found some old Klan document lying around in the basement of Grand Imperial Kleagle Robert Byrd (D-Bestie of Biden) and simply changed all the words “black” to “white.”
Ammo Grrrll, Power Line
Consider her observation of the whole racist screed and the bogus critical race theory. Here is an exercise for you. Here is a quote from a speech, substitute white race for Jews. Sure sounds like “critical race theory” to me.
I have very often in my lifetime been a prophet and have been mostly derided. At the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance the Jewish people who only greeted with laughter my prophecies that I would someday take over the leadership of the state and of the entire people of Germany and then, among other things, also bring the Jewish problem to its solution. I believe that this hollow laughter of Jewry in Germany has already stuck in its throat. I want today to be a prophet again: if international finance Jewry inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, the result will be not the Bolshevization of the earth and thereby the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.[14]
Adolph Hitler, Reichstag speech January 1939
The speaker was Adolph Hitler. The sentiments he expressed were acclaimed by Nazis in 1939. The rest of the world banded together to fight a war to repudiate those views. Eighty-one years later those same views are back and in vogue with the left. Liberals and fascists, there really is no difference.
Ammo Grrrll points out that Coca-Cola has instituted mandatory hate classes.
Corporate Coca-Cola has instituted mandatory Hate classes, the ultimate object of which is to teach White people — who are a majority, after all — to lend a hand with the psychological beatdown by learning to hate THEMSELVES. And more importantly, to cease and desist doing those things that make people unfairly successful, regardless of race. Melania Trump’s slogan for children was “Be Best.” Coke’s is “Be Less White.”
My question is what happens if a student fails? Do they have to go to retraining? What happens if the retraining doesn’t take, is that grounds for dismissal?
Once again Nazi Germany supplies the answer: In April 1933, the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service rescinded the employment of non-Aryan workers in government jobs. This prevented Jews from working as judges, doctors in state-run hospitals, lawyers in government departments and teachers in state schools.
I guess those who fail mandatory race training become unemployable. Ability and competence are eliminated as an employment consideration. I thought we turned that corner with the Civil Rights act of the 1960’s.
Once again I turn to the greatest management textbook ever written. Before there was In Search of Excellence, there was Catch-22. Don’t rely on the movie (either one). To get the full value, read the book. Joseph Heller nails the current zeitgeist in this passage. Quite a feat for a guy who has been dead for twenty-one years.
“The important thing is to keep them pledging,’ he explained to his cohorts. ‘It doesn’t matter whether they mean it or not. That’s why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what “pledge” and “allegiance” mean.’
To Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren, the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was a glorious pain in the ass, since it complicated their task of organizing the crews for each combat mission. Men were tied up all over the squadron signing, pledging and singing, and the missions took hours longer to get under way. Effective emergency action became impossible, but Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren were both too timid to raise any outcry against Captain Black, who scrupulously enforced each day the doctrine of ‘Continual Reaffirmation’ that he had originated, a doctrine designed to
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
trap all those men who had become disloyal since the last time they had signed a loyalty oath the day before. It was Captain Black who came with advice to Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren as they pitched about in their bewildering predicament. He came with a delegation and advised them bluntly to make each man sign a loyalty oath before allowing him to fly on a combat mission.”
A former denizen of the Soviet Gulag explained the process. Nobody was expected to believe the Soviet lies. However, the citizens were expected to repeat them and not denounce the lies. In that manner the citizens became complicit in maintaining the lie.
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings
