Thread: Polarizing the White Male through White Privilege - Pick the Target, Freeze It,

Polarizing the White Male through White Privilege - Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It, and Polarize It

David Risselada 1 hour ago

This is Saul Alinsky's 13th rule of power tactics in Rules for Radicals. It, essentially, means drawing all attention to a particular person or institution in an effort to demonize, ridicule and completely discredit the chosen target. By freezing the target, you ensure that all eyes are upon it. By polarizing it, you ensure the target is isolated and appears, for all practical purposes, to be the blame for all things. By personalizing it, you ensure your targeted population can relate with not only the purported evil, but the desired solution as well. This tactic is played out very well in many situations.


The most obvious example is how the NRA and the Second Amendment is to blame for all violence in this country. You would think that the left would want to hold kitchen knife manufacturers to the same standard as gun owners seeing as though mass murders are just as easily committed with them as they are with guns. We all know it isn't life that the left cares about. In fact, their relentless pursuit against gun owners' rights is indicative of how little they actually value your life. Knowing criminals will never surrender their weapons, they advocate for policies that leave you defenseless in the wake of another shooting in a "Gun free zone." Brilliant!

While the constant attack on gun owners' rights is but one small example of this tactic being played out on a daily basis, there is another one that may have much larger consequences; "white privilege." With each and every passing day there is increasing opposition to the Obama administration scandals and Obamacare, the left responds with increased attacks against whites by accusing us of being racist and privileged.

We have even seen the first lady of the United States suggest to high school students that they monitor their parents' speech for racist overtones. It's as if the left has decided that the only thing standing in their way of a socialist utopia is the white male and, therefore, he must be thoroughly destroyed. By accusing him of having privileges he has not earned, and being racist simply because he is white, the left is effectively isolating us as a target and focusing the rage created by their lies onto us simply because we are white.

When you examine the very nature of the white privilege argument, you realize that its advocates have got to be the racist ones because it all revolves around minorities not being "able to compete" in a white man's world. Advocates of white privilege are generally godless progressives who believe in Darwin's theory of evolution. When looking at it through this perspective it becomes easy to understand why liberals, or "progressives" for that matter, believe that minorities need government welfare and that white people are privileged. What they are really saying is that they believe they are better because they are white. It is this feeling of superiority that causes them to support this backwards definition of racism where believing that minorities are just as capable as a white man is racist, while the opposite is considered enlightened and educated.

The best example I can give which illustrates the depths in which the left is pounding this into our heads against our will is what I witnessed at Northeastern State University in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. I was told that I was unfit for the field of social work because of my opposition to white privilege. Not only that, I witnessed one of my professors literally give an assignment in which students were to admit that they didn't realize how racist they were by giving an oral presentation in front of the class. I refused by sitting in front of the class and declaring that being white doesn't make me racist.

Walter Williams, writing for the New American, highlights the rantings of a former high school teacher, Kim Radersma, as she goes on about how teaching is purely political. She also compares being white to alcoholism in the sense that just as alcoholics are never rid of the urge to drink, whites are never rid of the evils of racism. She claims that racism is so deeply embedded in her that she has to make a conscious decision to behave in a non-racist way every day. This type of behavior sounds an awful lot like a typical democrat to me.

White people, or rather, "white men" are being blamed for everything from climate change, to poverty. Capitalism is evil because it is the result of "white privilege" and the racist attitudes of white men that use it to suppress minorities. This is according to critical race theory, or "black liberation theology."
Speaking of black liberation theology, another thing I was taught in college was that black men would never be able to be friends with white men unless the white man acknowledged all the horrible things they had done to blacks in America. White privilege is also being used as the scapegoat in the recent shootings/stabbings/vehicular assaults in California. A gender studies professor, (yes there is such a thing,) at Rutgers University is actually claiming that white privilege is the reason for murder. Not only is this person an idiot for failing to realize the California shooter was half Asian, she seems to forget the young black kids being gunned down by other black kids in Americas "Gun Free Zones." Inner cities that are always governed by Democrats I might add.
Advocates of white privilege are truly the new fascists of the day. Many may ask why they do not see the hate and discontent being spread by this "reverse racism." Its time people open their eyes and see this for what it is, a relentless attack against our cultural and national identity. This is an all-out assault against the last stronghold holding out against socialism folks, and that stronghold is the American people. They are trying to break us down.

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June 10, 2014

Just Another Narrative About Privilege

By Rosslyn Smith

Back in 2008 US Senator Kay Hagan, now 61, sold herself to North Carolina voters as one of them: wife, mother, and business owner who knew all about the problems of trying to make big government more responsive to citizens and small businesses. The narrative on Elizabeth Dole, on the other hand, was that Dole was an elitist Republican rubber stamp who was out of touch with North Carolina.
Hagan is the mother of three. Otherwise missing from the preferred media narrative are a few facts about Hagan's background that suggest she is more scion of crony capitalists than citizen legislator. Kay Hagan's maiden name is Ruthven and Kay was largely raised in Lakeland, Florida. The Ruthvens are not ordinary citizens of Lakeland. Her father may have started out as a tire salesman but he ended up as one of the large developers of commercial real estate in Florida..
It is also questionable whether Hagan has ever had to deal much with obstreperous or officious bureaucrats. Her mother's maiden name was Chiles. Hagan's uncle was the extremely partisan Democrat Lawton Chiles, another resident of Lakeland, Florida. Lawton Chiles was a very successful real estate developer himself as well as a career politician. In Florida politics these occupations often go hand in hand. Chiles served 12 years in the Florida legislature, 18 years in the US Senate, and died during his second term as Florida governor in 1998. In other words, Hagan's family have been political insiders ever since she started kindergarten.
As a child Hagan campaigned for her uncle Lawton, and he came up to North Carolina to lend a hand in her first race for public office shortly before his death. Despite having a leg up over her colleagues through her family political connections, which are on par with those of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Hagan's career in both the North Carolina and US Senate has largely been that of the reliable rubber stamp. She is the type of politician who tends not to generate personal strong feelings in either direction. As with Elizabeth Dole among Republicans, there are widespread feelings that Hagen has done little more than take up space on Capitol Hill.
In 2014, the media's preferred campaign narrative is shaping up to be how political insider and privileged white male Republican Thom Tillis wants to sell out North Carolina as part of the Republican #WaronWomen. This narrative is false to the core.
Unlike the connected Kay Hagan, Thom Tillis, age 53, was born into a working class family. While he has been labeled a political insider in this election cycle, his background is anything but that of someone with longstanding family connections. Tillis he wasn't able to go straight from high school to college. He had to work. It was the late 1970s and good jobs were very hard for young people to come by. For years Tillis juggled work with taking classes at community colleges and extension programs. As a result, Tillis didn't finish his BA degree until he was 36. In the next decade he first became a partner in the consulting group at PriceWaterhouseCooper.
Then, in 2006, Tillis first ran for public office and won. His new colleagues in the NC House of Representatives thought so highly of his talent that he became a whip during the 2008 legislative session. Tillis helped recruit and organize other candidates so that after the 2010 election there was a Republican majority in the NC House of Representatives, the first in over a century. Tillis was elected speaker at the start of this third term, a very fast rise to top political leadership.
Only in Obama's America could a Horatio Alger rise such as that of Thom Tillis be written off as no more than white male privilege, even as the well connected nonentity Hagan is celebrated in the media as a woman who triumphed over the patriarchy.
There is talk the 2014 North Carolina race might be the most expensive US Senate campaign in history. Both parties are already sending in outsiders as consultants and foot soldiers. If Hagan follows in her uncle's footsteps it may also be one of the dirtiest, with the interest of the voters running decidedly behind that of the Democratic Party. How partisan was Lawton Chiles? In August 1992 after Hurricane Andrew devastated a large swath of south Florida, then Governor Chiles delayed several days before asking that federal troops be deployed to help restore order. This delay was largely blamed on President George H.W. Bush by the media and it assisted Democrat challenger Bill Clinton in painting the elder Bush as uncaring and incompetent.
How dirty did Chiles campaign? Coming into the November 1994 election, Republican challenger Jeb Bush was seen as having a slight edge over incumbent Chiles. Then a veritable hurricane of "push polling" struck Florida. Push polling consists of phone calls that masquerade as a political poll but which are intended to plant false information about a candidate. In these calls Jeb Bush was accused of not paying taxes and of supporting the abolition of Social Security and Medicare. The esteemed political scientist Larry J. Sabato noted in 1996:

When these calls came to light, Chiles's aides denied involvement -- a practice that usually works, because documentary evidence is hard to find and reporters often lose interest. But it has since emerged that the calls were made on orders from top campaign officials and carried out by a Washington telemarketing company. None of the charges against Bush or his running mate could be substantiated by the Chiles campaign. Now the incidents are being investigated at length by the Florida legislature, and Chiles has been forced to defend his integrity under oath before the body -- a precedent in Florida history -- with the embarrassing explanation that he was out of the loop.

It is to be hoped that after November 2014 the dirt will settle and niece Kay will be out of the political loop for good.

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