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| | [[File:Ed Buck Adam Schiff.jpg|right|300px|thumb|'''White Privilege:''' House Intelligence Committee chair [[Adam Schiff]] {left} with longtime Schiff megadonor Ed Buck (right). Buck was finally arrested and charged after a third gay [[African American]] man overdosed on [[methamphetamine]] in his home. The first two died and [[Democrat]] prosecutors never filed any charges.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/democratic-donor-ed-buck-accused-of-human-trafficking-and-revenge-porn-court-docs?ref=home</ref>]] | | [[File:Ed Buck Adam Schiff.jpg|right|300px|thumb|'''White Privilege:''' House Intelligence Committee chair [[Adam Schiff]] {left} with longtime Schiff megadonor Ed Buck (right). Buck was finally arrested and charged after a third gay [[African American]] man overdosed on [[methamphetamine]] in his home. The first two died and [[Democrat]] prosecutors never filed any charges.<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/democratic-donor-ed-buck-accused-of-human-trafficking-and-revenge-porn-court-docs?ref=home</ref>]] |
| − | '''"White Privilege"''' is the alleged body of special favors, in law and custom, that white people have by virtue of being white in [[America]] and other societies. White privilege is blamed as the cause of the alleged "[[climate crisis]]." The concept is based upon [[Maoist]] rectification. | + | '''"White Privilege"''' is the alleged body of special favors, in law and custom, that white people have by virtue of being white in [[America]] and other societies. White privilege is occasionally blamed as the cause of the alleged "[[climate crisis]]." The concept is based upon [[Maoist]] rectification. |
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| | [[Liberal]] activists have taken increasingly to alleging "white privilege" to advocate for a package of social policies and programs. | | [[Liberal]] activists have taken increasingly to alleging "white privilege" to advocate for a package of social policies and programs. |
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| | Bell’s theory is in turn an innovation of [[Critical Theory]], which was developed by Marxist thinkers of the [[Frankfurt School]] in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923. The Institute’s left-wing scholars fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, relocating to [[Columbia University]] in New York. Critical Theory, which discredits all aspects of Western society, we know today as [[political correctness]]. One of its most famous purveyors was the Frankfurt School’s [[Herbert Marcuse]], longtime associate of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]’s [[Julian Bond]]. Marcuse invented the concept of “partisan tolerance,” that is, [[tolerance]] for leftist ideas and [[intolerance]] of all others. The Southern Poverty Law Center applied Marcuse’s strategy in developing its “Hate Watch” list, and ''[[Rules for Radicals]]'' author [[Saul Alinsky]] used it in his own life’s work. | | Bell’s theory is in turn an innovation of [[Critical Theory]], which was developed by Marxist thinkers of the [[Frankfurt School]] in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923. The Institute’s left-wing scholars fled Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s, relocating to [[Columbia University]] in New York. Critical Theory, which discredits all aspects of Western society, we know today as [[political correctness]]. One of its most famous purveyors was the Frankfurt School’s [[Herbert Marcuse]], longtime associate of the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]’s [[Julian Bond]]. Marcuse invented the concept of “partisan tolerance,” that is, [[tolerance]] for leftist ideas and [[intolerance]] of all others. The Southern Poverty Law Center applied Marcuse’s strategy in developing its “Hate Watch” list, and ''[[Rules for Radicals]]'' author [[Saul Alinsky]] used it in his own life’s work. |
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| − | The “racist” narrative was turbocharged with the concept of “White Privilege,” the notion that whites—the dominant [[demographic]] group in capitalist America—are irretrievably racist, [[sexist]], [[homophobic]], [[xenophobic]], [[imperialist]]ic oppressors who exploit everyone. Whites are the only true [[evil]] in the world and should be exterminated. “Dr. Kamau Kambon, who taught Africana Studies 241 in the Spring 2005 semester at North Carolina State University, also said this needs to be done ‘because white people want to kill us.’”<ref>''[https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/activist-exterminate-white-people/ Activist: exterminate white people],'' by Jon Sanders, Carolina Journal, Oct. 21, 2015.</ref> | + | The “racist” narrative was furthered with the concept of “White Privilege,” the notion that whites—the dominant [[demographic]] group in capitalist America—are irretrievably racist, [[sexist]], [[homophobic]], [[xenophobic]], [[imperialist]]ic oppressors who exploit everyone. Whites are the only true [[evil]] in the world and should be exterminated. “Dr. Kamau Kambon, who taught Africana Studies 241 in the Spring 2005 semester at North Carolina State University, also said this needs to be done ‘because white people want to kill us.’”<ref>''[https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/activist-exterminate-white-people/ Activist: exterminate white people],'' by Jon Sanders, Carolina Journal, Oct. 21, 2015.</ref> |
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| | ===The New Abolitionism=== | | ===The New Abolitionism=== |
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| | ==Criminal justice== | | ==Criminal justice== |
| − | In [[New Mexico]], four of five adult members of a [[African American|black]] [[Muslim]] group were released days after their arrest for murdering a three-year-old, starving their children, and training children to perform school shootings. Meanwhile, two white adults of a [[Christian]] [[cult]] have remained in jail for two years on child abuse charges without trial in New Mexico. | + | In an example of the opposite being true in [[New Mexico]], four of five adult members of a [[African American|black]] [[Muslim]] group were released days after their arrest for murdering a three-year-old, starving their children, and training children to perform school shootings. Meanwhile, two white adults of a [[Christian]] [[cult]] have remained in jail for two years on child abuse charges without trial in the same state. |
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |