No need to look further. I have the answer to this provocative headline: “Hundreds of places in the US said racism was a public health crisis. What’s changed?”
I’ll tell you what’s changed. In the days of yore, many (but of course not all) Experts tried to match their theories to Reality, and when they spoke to the public and to rulers they were more or less honest about those theories.
But now? Now Experts are lying, they are deranged, they are nincompoops, their minds are rotted and their brains by the potent corrosive acid of Equality.
There are a number of words in common use, all slang, and all have the exact same meaning: incel, Nazi, bigot, fascist, sexist, homophobe and others which all mean bad person and nothing more than that. Here we have Elon Musk’s son (who is pretending to be a girl) calling him an incel, i.e. an involuntary celibate. It would thus seem the boy he sired is a special kind of idiot who needs to be led by the hand to the drinking fountain lest he forget to drink. But no. He uses the word correctly. “My father,” the deluded boy means, “is a bad person.”
Racist is similar, and nearly the same, with a small twist. It means bad white person. A racist can only be a white person who does not dislike lower class whites. I do not mean class in its economic sense alone, but that together with its cultural trappings. Whites on the outside.
It’s true some on the right occasionally try calling blacks who hate whites as “racist”, but the word never sticks, and is always dismissed. This is correct, too, because racist is like incel, words with no surviving connections to their etymological roots.
From this we deduce that racism means any act which is not sufficiently disparaging of lower class whites. Thus if racism is a public health crisis, as Experts claim, it must mean there are whites who still act in the interest of other whites in the same way those from other races act in the interest of those in their races. Let’s see the article for the truth of this.
More than 200 cities and counties declared racism was a public health crisis in the past few years, mostly after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis in May 2020. Racial justice advocates said they finally felt heard by the quick swell of political will to address disparities like disproportionate COVID-19 deaths or infant and maternal mortality rates.
Finally felt heard. Ah, the feminine impulse. Let that pass. Focus instead that there is no sense that those screeching “RACIST!” have not been heard for many years. I recall academic job announcements when I was getting my PhD (because back then I thought such a career was good), which read “Women and minorities encouraged to apply“. Meaning white men were not encouraged. This was in the 1990s.
White men are now not only not encouraged, but they are actively purged. Canada is particularly good at this.
But experts, officials and advocates all agreed on one thing: The declarations were an important first step toward creating a racially equitable society. Extensive research shows racism can have detrimental health impacts on people of color, including chronic stress and anxiety and higher rates of heart disease and asthma.
That “research”, as you and I have discovered over the years, is crap. It ascribes bad health to “racism” and not behavior and biology. Example: that blacks die by violence at rates many times higher than whites means “racism” must be the cause. Point out that one explanation is that blacks are 10 times more murderous, and you are informed their higher criminality is caused by “racism”.
Recall: all models only say what they are told to say. These models all start with the premise that “racism” must be the cause of “disparities.” And, lo, the models then “discover” that “racism” causes “disparities.”
Here is a female “racism!” crier from Milwaukee:
“If racism as a public health crisis was truly operationalized, we would have more people graduating from high school. If it was truly operationalized, people could live to their full potential and not worry about being mistaken by a police officer for having a gun,” said Paine, who was the chief of staff at the city’s health department from late 2019 to March 2021. “And those aren’t changes you can speak to overnight.”
It’s not clear to me what you can say about this other than that it is delusional. It is a fantasy in minds ravaged by Equality. But we all know, and must know, that fantasy can be a powerful driver of acts.
In Sacramento they created a “racial equity unit”. One imagines stern-faced fat blue-haired women roaming the streets looking for white men to scowl at. But not yet, because they have not yet hired a DIE “chief to oversee the action plan.”
Maybe you can apply, Anon. But not if you are a “racist”. Which is to say, a white man.
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The problem isn’t so much the experts started lying it’s that the expert label is far more widely conferred to ever more people with ever more dubious claims to any real expertise. Capturing institutions and converting them to their own agenda has been a strength of the lunatic progressives for many decades. Everything from professional organizations to prestigious prize (think Nobel) organizations to the various government departments and agencies.
The term “Expert” is especially vulnerable to this because there is no body who confers the term “expert” to anyone. You can just claim you are an “expert” in anything you want.
…the expert label is far more widely conferred to ever more people with ever more dubious claims to any real expertise.
We learned that from the Wizard of Oz
Democracy is a health crisis.
Democracy, like no-end capitalism, and Charles Darwin’s Descending Lunacy of Man, means = Competition, which means endless struggle…. for what???
To WIN!
Winning requires coaching and tools and weapons to help you win. And Capitalism was there to help!
The Democracy Games are a billion trillion dollar industry of services and entertainment requiring the combined efforts of our best Expurts! All fields, every field; there is no discipline that Democracy cannot molest unscathed!
According to the playbook, you must pick your opposing competitors and freeze them! Dr. Alinsky had a good book.
If your opponent has something sensible to say that everybody likes and he has made this sensible play intrinsic to his campaign in such a way that you cannot copy it least you only prove him right, because he said it first and you don’t want to be a perceived by the judges as an unoriginal copycat, then you have no choice… Democracy says you MUST fight against what is sensible in order to WIN!
Therefore your only defense is a good offence in social reengineering so that other people lose their senses!
Functional borders? Racism!
Meritocratic outcomes? Bigotry!
Sound Fiscal Policy? Fascism!
Tax Cuts? Antisemitism!
No 3rd World War? Global Threat!
Fair Elections? Insurrection!
Protecting property? Tyranny!
Respecting democracy? Populism!
Surviving assassination attempts? He started it!
Ketchup on steak? Unculinary!
Stop killing your kids! Misogyny!
Stop eating you neighbour’s cats? No credible reports!
Exposing your opponent’s stupidity? Meany!
This is what it takes to WIN! And there are well organised expensive services there to help provide cover, massage statistics, twist language, provide auras of credibility, and whatever it takes to convince customers to buy your bullshit! Or else! Consequences to reality be damned! Just WIN DAMMIT!
Large organizations like these sort of “crises” because they allow administrators to carry out cargo cult proposals without threat of being called out for it.
For example, our administration has gotten it into its head that low graduation rates are due to students failing remedial classes. (Already some backwards thinking just to get to that point.) Solution? Get rid of all remedial classes. But won’t that cause problems for the courses that use them as prerequisites? Well you see there are a couple of schools that did that, but had workshops taught by veteran teachers and carefully coordinated with those courses that usually used the prerequisite. This allowed even weak students to catch up on foundational material, and it all worked out. Of course, the administration sees hears this as “if you pair a workshop with the course, success is guaranteed!” So they create a workshop, do not even bother to map out learning outcomes for it beyond “help students pass other courses”, and farm them out to the least qualified adjunct instructors who apply. Total cargo cult implementation, and so of course students fail.
The old technique was to have the metrics for success be five years out, and to skip town before the program officially failed. You’d go to another university and say “look at this innovative program that I helped pioneer!” and get a new job at a higher rank. Now you don’t even need to leave your institution, because when your program falls apart you can blame racism. See! The students were given every opportunity to succeed and they didn’t, which means that someone was actively PREVENTING them from succeeding! Racism! Similarly the instructors aren’t unqualified, they just are being prevented by racists from reaching their full potential! (Yes, you can simultaneously say that the students are receiving great instruction but failing anyway while you say that the instruction itself was poor. That’s how nefarious racism is!)
The best part about all of this is that denying racism is inherently racist. So if someone tries to trip you up by saying “maybe we should do a comparative study to see if it’s just that our implementation is bad” you can shut him down immediately by asking why he is on the side of the KKK.
Ah, you are where I was about 8 years ago. These are terms of art, amongst the Narrativists:
“incel, Nazi, bigot, fascist, sexist, homophobe and others which all mean bad person”
In the same way that Muslim, Voodoon, pagan, gnostic, heretic, atheist and Satanist all mean “Not Christian”. Yes. However: “…bad person and nothing more than that”. No.
Aside from stupid children grabbing at synonyms for “poopyhead”, these words have different theological meanings.
Racism is a fake sin of a fake and wicked religion. It is expressly designed to obviate real virtues of charity and Christian brotherhood, scourge the innocent with guilt for non-existent vices, and to permit, even encourage resentment and hated towards one’s fellow man.
DIE is feeling the pain, and it’s panicking. Keep up the pressure. No mercy for the lunacy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woke-panic-activist-groups-demand-corporations-stop-cutting-dei-programs
A recent example:
https://x.com/user/status/1837157796137030141