(06-02-2020, 10:45 AM)jj82284 Wrote:

(06-02-2020, 10:07 AM)rfc17 Wrote: I have a good buddy who is the stereotypical college educated white woke social justice type. Loves Bernie.  Hates big corporations.  Wants reparations.  Still thinks cops kill more black people than whites ewhen you account for violent crime rates even though it's been disproven repeatedly. Etc, etc.. all the normal stuff you hear.

So the other day I sent him the video of Van Jones on CNN who said all white people have a disease where at any moment racism could just rear its ugly head. And told my buddy that deep down he is a kkk style racist and is part of the problem even if he doesn't know it. And while I shouldn't have been surprised, he actually believes that too. It's almost like a psychosis or having been brainwashed.  A guy who has no real power in life to affect a black person. Doesnt hold a position in management where he can hire or fire people. Unable to prevent people from going to school, earning money, basically living their own life. He actually taught at an inner city school.  Always votes very progressive. Etc, etc... never done a racist thing in his life. Yet still buys into the idea that he is somehow magically keeping the black man down and needs to fight off some kind of racism floating within the ether of his subconscious. It's really bizarre. It's a weird form of self hatred. But there are so many white people on the Left who are just like this. 

But part of me thinks he could be right in a small way because everytime he listens to a black person who doesnt share his worldview, or, *gasp*, leans more conservative he is flabbergasted. As if they should all think the same and follow the advice of white liberals. It's the one part of him that could actually be racist but maybe the only thing about him he doesnt see as racist.

Social justice is about religious catharsis not reason.  To them tragedies like this are like thunder proving the caveman religion.

That's actually true for a lot of people. The narrative structure of a beautiful original state, a menace interfering with that original state, and a fight against the menace to restore things to even better than they were  before is found across Western literature, politics, and religion.
Marx may be an early, obvious example, of working a political program into that structure, but you get the same arc from a Trump rally, just different villains.

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