This does remind me of how people on the right use the “dems r da reel rassists” line. It’s misapplied almost all the time when I see it because people on the right will trot it out when liberals implement a policy that they disagree with, but it’s not entirely without merit. The worst racists (like, actual racists) I’ve known in my life have been white liberals and a lot of the current noise has the sound of “doth protest too much”, an effort to over-virtue signal publicly in an effort to disprove who they really are privately.

Just as an example (beyond the attached image), the white (hmm) people helping burn down black neighborhoods; that’s a level of low that wouldn’t occur to me in my darkest thoughts. Or how about Rahm Emanuel overseeing the slaughter of blacks in Chicago so that areas could be ethnically cleansed for his developer buddies? I was hard pressed to find one anonymous comment on fringe web sites that were in support of such a horrific policy and plenty against, but the virtue-signalers? Silence. They don’t even bother going through the “gun control” motions anymore to run interference for their vapid views.

I could go on, but “Many such examples!”, as a politician once said. I’m comfortable enough in my own skin because I want the best for black people [all people], but I’m honest enough to admit that it doesn’t have to involve me and perhaps too, I’d rather it not. To me that seems substantially less “racist” than thinking that other groups are some variation of pet that I should win over by feeding them snacks, but, I am perpetually behind the times I suppose.

In 1995 the trial began for the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. In the jury selection process state prosecutor Marcia Clark made a deal with star defender Jonnie Cochran: she got to pick female jurors while Cochran got to decide their race (black). Marcia’s thinking was that female solidarity with the victim would make the case a slam dunk. Needless to say, the killer walked free.

The lesson? I guess if one is able to learn lessons, they learned it, if not, well, I guess they post black blocks on their timeline or something. Optimistically it’s ignorance, somewhat less optimistically they’re groveling within their social circle to show their piety to the current paradigm holding them down, thus showing that they are “good marcias” deserving of their material goods; a tithe, if you would, for the lords who they let rule over them.

Pessimistically they actually believe such things, that the chain of civilization that brought them into existence is beyond salvage compared to that of others, that the culture that has brought so much to the world is too rotten to comprehend, that there is no victory, only defeat; or as the Pope might say, da feet. (I dunno, if that’s the best we can do, maybe their point of view is self-fulfilling.)