Poison-hearted birds of a feather

Last August, neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell told an 

interviewer that he wished for a president who, unlike Donald Trump, “would not give his daughter to a Jew.” He then sneered, “I don’t think you can feel about race like I do, and watch that Kushner bastard walk around with that beautiful girl. Okay?”

I shared those detestable words with a purpose: To portray 

what genuine bigotry sounds like. Calls to maintain national 

borders and standards, promotion of equality, denunciations of separatist ideologies, and assertions of American exceptionalism are not of a piece with Cantwell’s repulsive notions. In fact, they are not within philosophical miles of them.

The idea that society’s supposed ‘systemic’ hostility amounts to ongoing aggression and grants moral legitimacy to criminal acts — making them reasonable defensive measures adopted by 

supposedly ‘oppressed’ people s— is imbecilic, whether claimed by Antifa, Neo-Nazis, Black Lives Matter, or the KKK.

It goes without remark that those groups have dissimilar histories. But they do share faiths of victim status, delusions of moral surety, and terrorist natures.

The full equality good people support cannot be effected by simply reversing the power dynamic, making yesteryear’s victim of racial bigotry today’s beneficiary of it. That only perpetuates unfair imbalance. The opposite of tyranny is justice, not continued tyranny with roles exchanged.

Thinking otherwise indicates, at best, limited logical grasp. At worst, it represents outright endorsement of discrimination when it serves one’s own interest.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts put it succinctly in the 2007 Parents Involved In Community Schools v Seattle School District majority decision: “The best way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

Crimson-faced anti-Trump expositors hunger to mangle our 

common political and social cultures until no citizen dare utter any words but condemnatory ones about heraldic and historic matters, and conservative philosophies.

Aversion to racial bigotry is admirable. It is an indication of moral quality. But leveraging it for political ambition, as Democrats generally do, divides fellow Americans and allows animation to true hatred of the type enunciated by the cretinous Cantwell.

Ill-considered racial hostility, though, is not limited to unsavory characters at society’s margin. It can also be found under the spotlight’s glare.

If afternoon chat mogul Oprah Winfrey validates speculation that she will seek Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination, opponents of bigotry should recall that she once voiced a particularly ugly personal belief, one at whose core lay racial animus and flabbergasting fatuousness:

During a 2014 BBC interview, she leaned forward, her features deathly serious: “There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it — in that prejudice and racism — and they just have to die.”

Oprah intoned those terrible words with the reptilian purposefulness of a serenely horrible lunatic.Her theory that racial prejudice would vanish with the passing of a generation is in two manners flawed. It ignores that not all members of any one generation harbor identical notions. (Winfrey appeared to be profiling.)

And, unfortunately, bigoted bents find eager uplift by members of successive generations. Ill notions endure, as some grab for undeserved advantage. Just as salutary ideations are products of human nature, so too are negative ones. And as long as people breathe, there will be both good and bad.

In 2018, some still hope to profit by fanning into flame anti-American race hatred. Some march in angry streets, right arms thrust aloft. Others coo over frivolous celebrities on daytime television.

Poison-hearted birds of a feather.

DC Larson’s essays championing of the Trump campaign ran in numerous newspapers. He is an author, blogger, and freelance journalist whose byline has appeared in Daily Caller, American Thinker, USA Today, and others. His latest book is Ideas Afoot (Bromley Street Press). This piece was adapted from earlier posts.