In reading Jeffrey Toobin's over-rated book on the Supreme Court, "The Nine" (which essentially argues that liberal judges are in the real tradition of the Founders), I was suprised to discover that Gerald Ford had come out as a vocal defender of Michigan Unviersity's system of massive racial preferences during the bro-ha-ha over Grutter v. Bollinger, the Michigan Unviersity Affirmtive Action case. But even more eyebrow raising was this quote from a New York Times Op-Ed former President Ford penned entitled, "Inclusive America: Under Attack",
"A pair of lawsuites would prohibit Michigan and other unviersitys from even considering race as one of many other factors weighed by admision counslers such a move would condemn future college students to suffer the cultural and social impoverishment that inflicted my generation"
Perhaps I was wrong to affix this kind of liberalism to only those under 65 years of age. Ford is dead ofcourse. I thought his generation, that of the WW2, was proud of themselves and there nation and there culture. I didn't know they scorned the wholesome, united social and cultural atomsphere of the 1940's as "cultural and social impoverishment" inflicting them? If only Gerald Ford had turned on a TV in the last 20 years of his life and seen what a rap video is he probably wouldn't have written such nonsence. So according to Ford, we should scorn and throw away the culture of the American army on D-Day in favor of the American culture of 2009 when the chart topping refrain on the radios of the nation is "Move Bitch, Get Out the Way!"? Hmm.
This is a phenmonon in Modern America. Those who have spent little to no time in a black ghetto, never seen a hip hop video, never gone to school with African Americans in signfigant numbers, and who have, overall, the least knowledge of black or latino ghetto culture are consitantly the very ones speaking about how they know that increased spread of latino & black ghetto culture is not just good but "essential" at any Unviersity and know that Michigan Univiersity student will sufferer tremendously in the absence of black and latino culture on their campus. These people who have spent the least time in the black or latino communitys and who have the least knowledge of either, have the highest opinion of both and claim for a fact that the academic underachievment, chronically high rates of violence, crime, illegitimacy and poverty among both latinos and blacks in America is the result of white racism & white oppression.
However, those white people who actually know black hip hop culture, who actually know blacks and latinos, go to school with them, work with them, live in the same neigborhoods, have a radically different more modest view of blacks and how much they "deserve" the racial preferences that Ford supports. Those whites that have the most exsperience with and knoweldge of black Americans have a much less grandiously positive view of the African American community compared to those whites like Gerald Ford who have virtually zero familiarity with the black community that Ford claims he was deprived of as a young man at Michigan Unviersity. Those whites who actually know and live with or around black culture do not complaim like Gerald Ford about the lack of it (especially at the places they send there children). They don't rejoice it the fact that there kids who go to the diverse schools Ford loves, schools that are 60 or 80 or 90 percent African American and latino. No, they want, more than anything, to send there kids to the least "diverse" schools possible, the whitest, most asian schools. They don't think there kids are suffering from any lack of black aka hip hop culture (which is the exact kind of "diversity" Ford is writing about whether he knows it or not). To the contrary, the parents of white children who have real knowledge of black (and latino hip hop) culture, who live in mostly minority neigborhoods, think there children are suffering from the presence of viscerally anti-academic black/hip hop culture, which Ford thinks Unviersitys must have as much as possible of.
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Two Liberal Archetypes
I'd like to discuss two archetypes, two distincly new charcters now so common to life in the modern world (atleast familiar to modern American life). They belong to the yuppie sector of the left wing. There are two kinds of Democrats: there are people who vote Democratic but don't embrace the full liberal world view (of being a part time diversity enthusaist, a racist whistleblower, gay rights defender, all around activist, etc.) and then are true liberals who don't just vote liberal but live liberal 24/7. They can be described, as the Democrats who acatually are into poltics. There the more annoying the more informed Democrat. They are almost always white, yuppies, who drive Volkswagons and want to move to Berlin and could be mistaken for GAP manaquins at any given moment. you know the type, they all have useless sociology/english/women's studies degrees and work in fields like marketing, the media, and academia.
I'd like to discuss 2 odd aspects of this modern liberal archetype i have always found fascinating.
1. Of the two this is the most important and ultimately ironic liberal yuppie sub-type. This is the white male yuppie-bookish, timid, well-mannered, intellectually intrested, likes poltics and debate and reading and revels in high culture and high art. Yet he is completly devoid of any trace, as a good liberal, of the most basic and obvious self-intrest. Namely in the regard of immigration and demographic change. They are not indifferent, no, rather they are passionately, often hysterically, in defence of contuning mass 3rd world immigration. They don't, as all good liberals, think about immigration and certainly not demographic change (only when forced) for such subjects are for warped, xenuphones to car about. But if you bring up the subject of say how many predict 2050 to be the year whites become a minority in America they will recoil and/or grow hysterical at the fact that you even care about such change as if they are offended or disgusted that such things would even grab your attention. Let alone, come and out and say that we need a moratirium on immigration so that we can remain a majority European nation and then they start labeling you a sick "racist".
But you start to wonder, don't they even think about demographic change at all? Don't they see that they are crusading so belligerently on the part of policys that besides hurting the nation (which is not compelling to them anyways) is so clearly detrimental to them? Why is America become less white and more Mexican and black bad for the white "overeducated", "intellectual", yuppie liberals i speak of? Well because latino and black culture, which is largely hip hop culture, despite sharing the liberal yuppies love for Obama and welfarism, is the cultural antithesis of meek and mild, ultra-femnist, sensitive, anti-consumerist, liberal yuppie culture. White Starbucks yuppie-liberalism culture is all about sipping ethipian bean free-trade lattes and speaking about the new upcoming Wes Anderson film quitely and politely while chicano and black hip hop culture is about free style rapping "homophobic", "mysogonistic", "consumerist" rythms and making fun of each other very louidly while drinking 40's and rolling blunts and speaking broken english. The white yuppie thinks of himself as "with it" when it comes to everything third-world and non-white and non-traditional. He thinks he can connect if given the chance with the victimized and oppressed "proleteriate" cause he is there defender. The white liberal yuppie glorifies hip hop culture. The white yuppie teaches black teenage mothers slam poetry at goverment funded "poetry centers", they are the community organizer, the young idealist teacher in the ghetto classroom. But despite their efforts, and the white yuppie has tried very very hard to "connect" and "uplift" the black and latino ghetto youth culture, the two groups are simply far two different. But the white yuppie liberal doesn't critize anything non-white.While the black gantas and chicano teenage thugs laugh at the yuppie liberals and the hipsters as nerdy, the white yuppie restrains, monk -like, from any critqiue of latino and black hip hop culture, to do so would be to go conservative and to admit that racism isn't holding them down but there own culture.
But you still would think, doesn't the white yuppie ever realize that the society they want to live, a NPR-Terry Gross-Starbucks-Sava Darfur-Ani DiFranco-beat poetry-society is totally at odds with the society they are bringing about by arguing on behalf of mss immigration and open borders, which is an increasingly black and latino slum society, a Bitchz n' hoes-bling-bling-hyper-masculine-ultra-consumerist-low-culture-bad-TV-no-books-"whats NPR?"-society. But ofcourse to even ackowledge this conflict would be to be saying something bad about non-white culture and something implicitly good about white culture which is a no-no. And as one can tell reading liberal colmunist, what is a central source of liberal self esteem is there feeling that they are the white people marching with MLK, that they are in essence, "the good white people", they seem to have guilt problems, and they need to seperate themselves from other whites, to make clear to the world that they are the "enlightened white people", the "white people who know that white people are evil and holding you guys down". They're intertional soldiarity fetish gives them a fantasy self image as being united with the migrant worker, the black criminal (victim of white oppresion), the native american, the buddist, and not being just another "white guy or gal". There liberalism and there idiotic diversity fetish is not about poltics as much as it is about status. There left wing "i'm-more-proggesive-than-you!" poltics is a way of marking there status above other whites in a new age of globalization inwhich status heirachy is all a-jumble. Thats why i'm convisced that they don't even think about immigration, they just know that "good white people", people on the side of "progress" would be on the side of the illegal immigrant, thus they are, no thinking nesscary, they're stance on amnesty like so many other issues is set by default. When they adopted there all-encompassing white yuppie liberal identity as "good, proggesive, enlighned, compassionate white people" they adopted with it a social idenity and a whole bunch of default positions required of "good white people": which means, for instance, in order to keep your status as a good white person, you simply can't be concerned about immigration, because illegal immigration is just oppressed peoples getting revenge for years of repression, instead of caring about say a vile hip hop culture which embodies the "misogyny" and "consumerism" that they claim to disdain, they endorse hip hop and focus there faked scorn on Christianity and patriotism and calling people who care about Rev. Wright racist.
But can't they see what i and all sane people can see so clearly for just a milisecond, which is that the policy they support, with there donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center and CAIR and Media Matters will have them living in a 3rd world slum by the time there middle age and despite what they say, they would hate that more than anything. Just look at the white yuppies personal lives and the core hypocrisy of there bogus idenitity reveals itself: that being that they live and will always live as long as they can live in all-white/asian/jewish neigborhoods. They make damn sure to send there kids to schools with minimal numbers of latino and black kids. They secretly raise there disaprove and/or worry about there children having mostly black and/or latino friends (granted its not at a early age). Ofcourse they never would say a word admitting aprhension in this regard. (By the way, another less prounced hypocrictal aspect of these white yuppie types is the fact that they so often owe there livilehood and there lavish living conditions to the major corporations they work for in some capacity, the same corporations, they almost as an act of atonement, defame and slander through there poltical views.)
Part of me, can't wait for the copious amount of "i told you so" moment that await me and my white liberal yuppie friends and loved ones as we grow older and i am proven right and they grudgingly fall silent in admission of there foolishness. I warn the liberals who surround me in love and family and friendship that the policys they support in the area of immigration will have us both living under the thumb of a president Al Sharpton or House Speaker Louis Farrakhan soon enough and they skoff the suggestion of like science fiction (the way i, rightly, scoff of there predictions of San Frasico below the sea in 60 years).
2. The epcine "social justice" liberal yuppie male who gets teary-eyed passionate about gay rights and/or femnism. I find something so fundmentally gay or at the very least essentially effeminate about watch a male (presumably hetro) liberal gettin all verkilmept and girlishly passionate-irrational about "male shovenism" and "sexism" and "repressive gender roles" or "gay marriage as a human right!".
I'd like to discuss 2 odd aspects of this modern liberal archetype i have always found fascinating.
1. Of the two this is the most important and ultimately ironic liberal yuppie sub-type. This is the white male yuppie-bookish, timid, well-mannered, intellectually intrested, likes poltics and debate and reading and revels in high culture and high art. Yet he is completly devoid of any trace, as a good liberal, of the most basic and obvious self-intrest. Namely in the regard of immigration and demographic change. They are not indifferent, no, rather they are passionately, often hysterically, in defence of contuning mass 3rd world immigration. They don't, as all good liberals, think about immigration and certainly not demographic change (only when forced) for such subjects are for warped, xenuphones to car about. But if you bring up the subject of say how many predict 2050 to be the year whites become a minority in America they will recoil and/or grow hysterical at the fact that you even care about such change as if they are offended or disgusted that such things would even grab your attention. Let alone, come and out and say that we need a moratirium on immigration so that we can remain a majority European nation and then they start labeling you a sick "racist".
But you start to wonder, don't they even think about demographic change at all? Don't they see that they are crusading so belligerently on the part of policys that besides hurting the nation (which is not compelling to them anyways) is so clearly detrimental to them? Why is America become less white and more Mexican and black bad for the white "overeducated", "intellectual", yuppie liberals i speak of? Well because latino and black culture, which is largely hip hop culture, despite sharing the liberal yuppies love for Obama and welfarism, is the cultural antithesis of meek and mild, ultra-femnist, sensitive, anti-consumerist, liberal yuppie culture. White Starbucks yuppie-liberalism culture is all about sipping ethipian bean free-trade lattes and speaking about the new upcoming Wes Anderson film quitely and politely while chicano and black hip hop culture is about free style rapping "homophobic", "mysogonistic", "consumerist" rythms and making fun of each other very louidly while drinking 40's and rolling blunts and speaking broken english. The white yuppie thinks of himself as "with it" when it comes to everything third-world and non-white and non-traditional. He thinks he can connect if given the chance with the victimized and oppressed "proleteriate" cause he is there defender. The white liberal yuppie glorifies hip hop culture. The white yuppie teaches black teenage mothers slam poetry at goverment funded "poetry centers", they are the community organizer, the young idealist teacher in the ghetto classroom. But despite their efforts, and the white yuppie has tried very very hard to "connect" and "uplift" the black and latino ghetto youth culture, the two groups are simply far two different. But the white yuppie liberal doesn't critize anything non-white.While the black gantas and chicano teenage thugs laugh at the yuppie liberals and the hipsters as nerdy, the white yuppie restrains, monk -like, from any critqiue of latino and black hip hop culture, to do so would be to go conservative and to admit that racism isn't holding them down but there own culture.
But you still would think, doesn't the white yuppie ever realize that the society they want to live, a NPR-Terry Gross-Starbucks-Sava Darfur-Ani DiFranco-beat poetry-society is totally at odds with the society they are bringing about by arguing on behalf of mss immigration and open borders, which is an increasingly black and latino slum society, a Bitchz n' hoes-bling-bling-hyper-masculine-ultra-consumerist-low-culture-bad-TV-no-books-"whats NPR?"-society. But ofcourse to even ackowledge this conflict would be to be saying something bad about non-white culture and something implicitly good about white culture which is a no-no. And as one can tell reading liberal colmunist, what is a central source of liberal self esteem is there feeling that they are the white people marching with MLK, that they are in essence, "the good white people", they seem to have guilt problems, and they need to seperate themselves from other whites, to make clear to the world that they are the "enlightened white people", the "white people who know that white people are evil and holding you guys down". They're intertional soldiarity fetish gives them a fantasy self image as being united with the migrant worker, the black criminal (victim of white oppresion), the native american, the buddist, and not being just another "white guy or gal". There liberalism and there idiotic diversity fetish is not about poltics as much as it is about status. There left wing "i'm-more-proggesive-than-you!" poltics is a way of marking there status above other whites in a new age of globalization inwhich status heirachy is all a-jumble. Thats why i'm convisced that they don't even think about immigration, they just know that "good white people", people on the side of "progress" would be on the side of the illegal immigrant, thus they are, no thinking nesscary, they're stance on amnesty like so many other issues is set by default. When they adopted there all-encompassing white yuppie liberal identity as "good, proggesive, enlighned, compassionate white people" they adopted with it a social idenity and a whole bunch of default positions required of "good white people": which means, for instance, in order to keep your status as a good white person, you simply can't be concerned about immigration, because illegal immigration is just oppressed peoples getting revenge for years of repression, instead of caring about say a vile hip hop culture which embodies the "misogyny" and "consumerism" that they claim to disdain, they endorse hip hop and focus there faked scorn on Christianity and patriotism and calling people who care about Rev. Wright racist.
But can't they see what i and all sane people can see so clearly for just a milisecond, which is that the policy they support, with there donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center and CAIR and Media Matters will have them living in a 3rd world slum by the time there middle age and despite what they say, they would hate that more than anything. Just look at the white yuppies personal lives and the core hypocrisy of there bogus idenitity reveals itself: that being that they live and will always live as long as they can live in all-white/asian/jewish neigborhoods. They make damn sure to send there kids to schools with minimal numbers of latino and black kids. They secretly raise there disaprove and/or worry about there children having mostly black and/or latino friends (granted its not at a early age). Ofcourse they never would say a word admitting aprhension in this regard. (By the way, another less prounced hypocrictal aspect of these white yuppie types is the fact that they so often owe there livilehood and there lavish living conditions to the major corporations they work for in some capacity, the same corporations, they almost as an act of atonement, defame and slander through there poltical views.)
Part of me, can't wait for the copious amount of "i told you so" moment that await me and my white liberal yuppie friends and loved ones as we grow older and i am proven right and they grudgingly fall silent in admission of there foolishness. I warn the liberals who surround me in love and family and friendship that the policys they support in the area of immigration will have us both living under the thumb of a president Al Sharpton or House Speaker Louis Farrakhan soon enough and they skoff the suggestion of like science fiction (the way i, rightly, scoff of there predictions of San Frasico below the sea in 60 years).
2. The epcine "social justice" liberal yuppie male who gets teary-eyed passionate about gay rights and/or femnism. I find something so fundmentally gay or at the very least essentially effeminate about watch a male (presumably hetro) liberal gettin all verkilmept and girlishly passionate-irrational about "male shovenism" and "sexism" and "repressive gender roles" or "gay marriage as a human right!".
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