Goddamn commies. My first reaction while reading Goodbye, Colombus was no-one could be that stupid to take a sarcastic comment in President Trump’s tweet and take it to heart and become irate over it; I was wrong. In the first couple paragraphs Robert Kuttner links to a youtube video in which a white male blames white supremacy and Christopher Colombus for rape, genocide, and murder, along with hurting the feelings of liberals (let’s be honest, this is the real crime). The man states that “White supremacy and the systems that sustain it must be replaced, people will continue to suffer and the planet will continue to die.” Therefore it has been proven that carbon emissions are not the cause of planet deterioration, it is white, educated males with aspirations. Kuttner seems to be wary of what he describes as Bannon’s ploy to entice and elicit response and attention from stir crazy liberals, however Kuttner still seems …show more content…
to do exactly as he is warning against and feed liberal propaganda. Kuttner stated that “sometimes liberals need radicals”, this would be true in the case of 1933 in Germany where a radical socialist assumed control of Germany and started taking over the world. Personally I would start increasing the defenses around Mt. Rushmore to protect against the government-teat-suckling youth wielding sledgehammers. On the other hand, Dennis Prager makes a much more compelling, logically oriented, argument.
With his starting statements about the left advocating communism, reminds me of the youth countercultures in the early 50’s that were socialist in nature, and rebelled against any and every institution, yet wanted government handouts for being worthless hippies. They constantly protested the vietnam war for decades along with other liberals. Going back to Prager’s article, while reading through I was shocked that liberals had glorified and sympathized with the Soviet commies holding contempt for Reagan’s labelling of them as an “Evil Empire”; even nowadays liberals protest being labelled as gay or a man or a woman, yet continues to label everyone else as a racist, sexisst, homophobe, etc. I completely agree with Prager that the left spends way more time attacking the wrong enemy, but uses that to justify progression. While we’re at war with communism and terror, the left is at war with having the right to be 6’4”, bearded, 240 lbs, a penis, and still be a
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...ith this next statement: "The flexible hybrid of Capitalism and the welfare state pioneered in the United States had proven capable of military triumph over Germany, Italy, and Japan. Despite widespread fears and dark prophecies that the depression would return once the war was over, the economy weathered the transition away from the controlled economy of wartime with relative ease." The businessmen of the time continued to fight for conservatism even when liberalism seemed to be at its finest. This quote from the author made the businessmen of the day to once again seem as of they were out of though with the majority of society and were only seeking what benefit them and their bank accounts.
“I repeatedly forgot each of the realizations on this list until I wrote it down. For me, white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one’s life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.”
...e Great Society was moving forward, the race problem had ended, as far as the foreign countries could see. The impact of domestic problems in the transnational sphere was non-existent; there was no one to impress any longer, even though the Cold War did not officially end until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. In the end, Vietnam was not a part of her dichotomy between Civil Rights and the Cold War, even though the War in Vietnam was definitely a portion of United States interaction in the Cold War. The great point of Cold War Civil Rights is the important of looking at domestic issues in a transnational perspective. Most books and scholarly journal articles cannot see the 1950s and 1960s America from a global standpoint, nor do they make an attempt. Mary Dudziak is one step ahead in this approach; it just makes sense, especially for this particular time period.
One of the biggest fears of the American people is that the concept of communism contrasts drastically from the concept of capitalism, which the United States was essentially founded upon. The United States, as the public believed, was not a land of perfect communal equality, but rather a land of equal opportunity. However, what made communism so dangerous can be succinctly described by Eisenhower who compared the spread of communism as the domino effect. As his secretary of state, Dulles, put it, the propagation of communism “would constitute a threat to the sovereignty and independence” of America (Doc B). In addition, the Cold War also planted the seeds of rational fear of a global nuclear war. As Russia caught up to the United States in terms of technological advancements, they successfully developed the atomic bomb as well as the hydrogen bomb, which caused Americans to believe that the USSR would use these weapons of mass destruction to forcefully extend their ideologies to the USA. In fact, Americans were so frantic about a potential nuclear disaster that it...
...icit in the cause of white supremacists, and is in fact as personally involved with the subject of his scholarly article as Wright is with his own less academic essay. Phillips’s evidentiary support is subject to a striking caveat, one which puts almost any source to work for his purposes, “When…slavery was attacked it was defended not only as a vested interest, but…as a guarantee of white supremacy and civilization. Its defenders did not always take pains to say that this was what they chiefly meant, but it may nearly always be read between their lines.” This has the effect of providing an assumed motive for all of his sources; Phillips’s reader also begins to ‘read between the lines.’ The most troubling aspect of his article is that, in the guise of a serious historian, he twists historical fact to suit his thesis, rather than suiting his thesis to the facts.
Older gentrification is issued onto poor black communities to increase white supremacy in the area and improve living conditions in the so called “hood.” After Older proposed his thoughts on Gentrification being an issue in colored low-income neighborhoods, he then turns to criticizing another writer with a different point of view on the issue. The author of “Is Gentrification All Bad?” in an article in the New York Times explains his views on gentrification. Older places emphasis on one of Davidson’s claim on “sweet spots” in the community saying “Davidson talks of a “sweet spot”: some mythical moment of racial, economic harmony where the neighborhood stays perfectly diverse and balanced.” (Older 358) The author does not support this claim as to being logical in his sense. Older’s views represents an opposite approach on the same issue of gentrification. In another quote “The gears are all already in place, the mechanisms of white supremacy and capitalism poised to make their moves.” (Older 358) the author speaks on how white people are over taking the poor colored communities to improve their lives, but not thinking about the consequences of the affected
“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group,” Peggy McIntosh wrote in her article White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Too often this country lets ignorance be a substitute for racism. Many believe that if it is not blatant racism, then what they are doing is okay. Both the video and the article show that by reversing the terms, there is proof that racism is still very existent in this world. By looking into A Class Divided and White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack along with their ability to broaden the cultural competence, once can see how race is still very prominent in our culture.
...s be conscious of our familiarity): endogamy, affirmative action, white supremacy, and the ethics concerning the above. Regarding endogamy: does a black man have an obligation to marry a black woman strictly for the purpose of preventing & encouraging unity against white supremacy? Are we too concerned with our individual goals that we abandon communal objectives by denouncing affirmative action and failing to realize the community effect this has on our educational freedoms? To Taylor, these are not individual attacks or insults, but rather carefully constructed racial patterns and habits. (p. 176). From my view, while these issues may not always seem personal or of interest to specific individuals, Taylor emphasizes the importance of cohesive societal awareness.
In the late1960’s American politics were shifting at a National level with liberalism being less supported as its politics were perceived as flawed, both by people on the left who thought that liberalism was not as effective as more radical political enterprises and by conservatives who believed that liberal politics were ostensibly crippling the American economy.
...n themselves as they see fit.” Explaining to the people of the United States that communism is now the threat. With the Axis defeated now it is time to turn their attention to the threat to freedom.
The first reason Americans began fearing the Communist party, is due to the party’s association with Russia and Stalinism. Russia was the most widely known Communist state in the world and the American Communist party’s adoration of it was the best-known thing about them . This became a large problem for the American Communist party when Stalin became a terrifying figure to the average American as knowledge of his atrocities and betrayals began to leak past the Iron Curtain. While most of the American Communists “just didn’t believe” these rumours, the average person did, and they did not see a difference between the American C...
The famed political author George Orwell once said “I write […] because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention . . .” (Orwell 3). This philosophy is at the heart of his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in which he strives to reveal the dangers of communism through the extreme totalitarian world of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The principal danger which Orwell presents is that “communism [is] not a revolutionary force, but instead [is] a new, dangerous form of totalitarianism” (Rossi 207) in which the government is stifling society to gain control and power at the cost of its citizen’s freedom, and humanity. There are
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Not only does he negatively connote the white way of life, he blatantly threatens them by saying “ those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual” and that “there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights”(2). By basically stating that there will not be peace until Negros get rights, therefore threatening the white way of life. Outright threatening the audience would make them not even listen to one’s argument, even if it were supported by
While many whites argued that the black race was inferior to that of the race of intellect, many civil rights activists and NAACP members claimed that their students had the same credentials to get into their colleges as the white students did. The desegregationist claimed if they were not judged by the color of skin that their students could easily graduate from prestigious southern universities such as the University of Mississippi and University of Georgia. This claim was proven when the University of Georgia’s first black students, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, were admitted to the University of Georgia and would graduate from the University. This alone proved that the segregationist were wrong about evolutionary deformities within the black community. Some supporters of the Civil Rights movement felt like the white supremacy was much like that of “ Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin” much like whites did about the NAACP for trying to integrate public white universities . In a letter from a soldier stationed in Tokyo, Japan he plainly states “Congratulations! You guys have stood firmly to principle… Segregation is a real fuel for Commie Propaganda, and its continuance will certainly endanger the very existence of our country…. Incidentally I’m white and from Texas” (Pratt 35). Even though the segregationist ideas were very harmful on a