On Tuesday, April 9, the Democrat-run House of Representatives, itself populated by non-white ethno-nationalists of various stripes, will run hearings on “white nationalism” and “what social media companies can do to stop white nationalist propaganda and hate speech online” . [Candace Owens to testify in congressional hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism, by Tal Axelrod, The Hill, April 5, 2019] The sole right-of-center voice: Candace Owens of Turning Point USA, a black conservative who got her start trying to dox right wingers. [The Problem with Candace Owens, by Cathy Young, Quillette, May 8, 2018] Presumably, Owens is going to accuse the Democrats of being “the real racists.” The Democrats’ obvious intent: to crack down even further on free speech online, with New Zealand presumably the model. It’s a trend.
For example, recently at a Starbucks in Palo Alto CA, an elderly Jewish man wore the red cap bearing the slogan of the President of the United States. Simply because of this, one Parker Mankey, co-chair of the Bayshore Progressive Democrats, began screaming and swearing at him, calling him a “hater of brown people” and a “Nazi.”
Indeed, she did more than that. On Twitter, she bragged:
I am going to publicly shame him in town and try to get him fired and kicked out of every club he is in. I am going to go to his house march up and down carrying a sign that says he hates black people. I am going to organize protests where he works to make him feel as unsafe as he made every brown person he met today.
[Political polarization sparks confrontation at Starbucks, triggering online fury, by Sue Dremann, Palo Alto Online, April 3, 2019]
Surprisingly, this campaign didn’t work for her. It was Mankey who ended up losing her job, though I doubt she’ll be unemployed for long. [California woman fired after confronting man wearing MAGA hat at Starbucks, by N’dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, April 4, 2019] There are no well-funded right-wing groups that will obsessively follow her career, calling employers and making sure she can never hold a job again.
The incident is revealing because it shows what many white Leftists currently believe:
First, that any conservative political movement that even rhetorically believes in immigration restriction automatically constitutes a threat to people of color, justifying its massive repression by any means; Secondly, that white (or Jewish) Leftists have a special obligation to lead this movement, chiefly by whipping up mobs on social media.
Polling actually shows dramatic shift of white “liberals” to the left on racial and immigration issues—a shift which preceded President Trump and is not just the result of conservative whites leaving the Democratic party. Sean McElwee was able to show that white Democrats who remained in the party actually changed their minds on social justice issues with a sharp rise in those who believed blacks are held back by “institutional racism” rather than a supposed lack of individual initiative [The Rising Racial Liberalism of Democratic Voters, by Sean McElwee, New York Times, May 23, 2018] This White Democrats are now actually to the left of black Democrats on the question of special help for non-whites.
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