A Small Glossary — CRT, White Fragility, Equity, White Privilege, Systemic Racism

Britannica: “Critical race theory (CRT) , is an intellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially Africa Americans.”

This statement makes the White race guilty for the black race’s general failures as to academic excellence, standard of living equality, job equality, salary equality, and social acceptance as equals in majority White societies. It views all these failures as being the result of the socially constructed White man oppressing and keeping the socially constructed black man down.

Equity teaches the only way to right this historic wrong is for the socially constructed white man to give up this previous sinful privilege and accept a current matching discrimination against him from the socially constructed black man to make up for the putative historic discrimination that the socially constructed black man faced in previous years. Equity holds that the socially constructed white man must be kept down until the socially constructed man can catch up. Equity needs to be distinguished from the idea of equality. Equity does not believe in equality except as equality is defined in light of equity. Equality, politically speaking, means everyone gets a seat at the table. Equity teaches that whites should not get a seat at the table since they putatively have had so many seats at the table in the past. Political equality itself, with all its set-asides, quotas, and score enhancements was always a mistake. Equity, however, is a bridge beyond equality. If you are a white person and you vote for someone touting equity you are either a moron or a self-hater because equity explicitly teaches that you, as a socially constructed white man, will never be given the opportunities to advance because your ancestors had the good life and now it is a person of colors turn. So, even if they are less qualified than you are, they will be given the job, the placement, the position until at some unspecific time in the future all peoples are at the same level of accomplishment.

White fragility happens when biological white men and women say this whole scam is monkey fecal matter. The disagreement by White people is listed by those who champion CRT  as White Fragility. White people are “fragile” because they can’t handle the truth and so object. The scam here is clear. If you agree with CRT then that proves CRT is right. If you disagree with CRT then your white fragility proves CRT is right. Heads I win. Tails you lose. It’s a gamed theory.

 

White privilege in this worldview is the systemic advantage that has accrued to white people simply because they are white. The theory goes that because you were born socially constructed white you automatically had advantages that were not fair because other non-white people didn’t have those advantages and so were disadvantaged. For example, a white person may have grown up in a family that loved and nurtured them. Whereas a black person may have grown up in a family that treated him badly. That White person because of that has white privilege that isn’t fair to the black person. Plus, keep in mind in that example, that it was because of systemic racism that the socially constructed black person’s family was less than what it might have otherwise been.

Systemic racism posits that a social order can be racist even if no individual in that social order is racist. As such the socially constructed white people groups can be racist even if no socially constructed white individual is. This means that the whole social order of countries predominantly built by whites works so as to disadvantage and discriminate against people of color. Critical Race theory works to expose that advantage and offers solutions such as societal-wide “Equity” in order to offset that prior advantage.

Notice in all of this that equality/equity is arrived at, at the price of Liberty. Liberty and equality/equity can never exist together. One always cancels out the other. If there is a regime of equity people will not be free to pursue what they want and become what they want. This is because equality/equity will limit and circumscribe that ability. Similarly, liberty means that people will not be equal or have equity because liberty presupposes that people are not equal and will advance or not upon the basis of merit and drive. Two realities not allowed in an equality/equity social order.

A reading list for Memorial Day

A reading list for Memorial Day. Read these 10 books and you’ll never celebrate Memorial day again in quite the same way.

10.) Wilson’s War — Jim Powell
9.) FDR goes to War — Burton Folsom
8.) Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government — M. Stanton Evans
7.) Lincoln the Man — Edgar Masters
6.) Lincoln’s Little War: How His Carefully Crafted Plans Went Astray — Webb Garrison
5.) Naked Capitalist — W. Cleon Skousen
4.) Freedom Betrayed — Herbert Hoover
3.) Blacklisted by History — M. Stanton Evans
2.) War is a Racket — Smedley Butler
1.) Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution — Anthony C. Sutton

Bonus books

1.) Freedom Betrayed — Herbert Hoover
2.) Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War — Pat Buchanan
3.) War is a Racket — Gen. Smedley Butler
4.) Hidden History; The Secret Origins of WW I — MacGregor and Docherty
5.) Prolonging the Agony;  How  the  Anglo-American  Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years — MacGregor & Docherty

On This Day; Potpourri of Quotes and Insights Over The Years From the Pastor’s Study

Over the years I have made the habit to place significant notes from my reading or lecture listening online on social media for other people to profit from what I am learning. I’ve seldom posted those notes here on Iron Ink. However, I’m going to start a feature where I collect my daily posts from over the years and place them here. In a year’s time, I will have collected all my social media posts and notes so that they are here for me to access.

These will be random and unconnected as my study is quite varied over the course of a day.

So, here in this first entry for; “On This Day”

I.) On This Day in 2019

A.) “White women are displayed with non-white men in advertisements not to sell items but as a tactic of psychological warfare against our civilization. Very rarely anymore are white men portrayed in a favorable light, they are often the overweight, goofy, clumsy, half-wit that relies on women and non-whites to save the day. From films to television to advertisements, this is an increasingly common anti-white canard.”

R. Houck
Online Article

The War Against Whites In Advertising

B.) Among whites in 1958, only 4% approved interracial marriages between whites and blacks; in 2007, 75% of whites reported they approve of such unions

In light of this, how can I not conclude that social engineering works?

Also, in 1958 that 4% was likely comprised only of Atheists, and Unitarians, and Talmudists.II.) On This Day in 2018

A.) “Since one cannot help everyone one has to be concerned with those who by reason of place, time, or circumstances, are by some chance more tightly bound to you.”

Augustine
Christian Doctrine, Book 1, ch. 28
B.) In 2011 the MLK Memorial in DC was unveiled. In 2017 statues of Confederate veterans were being taken down.
This wasn’t a coincidence. Only one narrative can be in the ascendancy.
  • C.) “Although defeated, they left us traditions of faith in God, honor, chivalry, and respect for womanhood; they left us a passionate belief in freedom for the individual. Our Confederate ancestors bequeathed to us a military tradition of valor, patriotism, devotion to duty, and a spirit of self-sacrifice. When our nation no longer admires and pays tribute to these traditions, we will no longer remain a free nation. “ 

    Sons of Confederate Veterans, New Members Initiation

    III.) On This Day 2017

    A.) “Because we believe that God intends to vindicate His Divine Word and to make all nations honor it … we confidently expect that the world will yet do justice to Southern Slaveholders.”

    R. L. Dabney

    B.) “I do not forget, and I trust that I do not undervalue, the missionary work of England and our own land, in that benighted continent. But I believe that the number of negroes Christianized and civilized at the South, through the system of slavery, exceeds the product of those missionary labors, in a proportion of thousands to one. And thus the wisdom and goodness of God are vindicated in the sanction which his Word has given, and the sentence originally pronounced on Canaan as a curse has been converted into a blessing.”

    John Henry Hopkins
    Bishop of Vermont

    C.) Reading an essay about how the victory of Bolshevism in WW II was supported by Barthian theology and how said victory Christianized the idea of International Cosmopolitanism.

    D.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fh6LtBYmiI

    IV.) On This Day 2016

    Touching Trump

    A.) I wish someone would make for me the Biblical case of voting for our Political Covenant head a man who has bragged about his wenching (womanizing), a man who has strip joints in his casinos, a man who has promised that torture needs to be used against those who deserve it, a man who has bragged about the size of his Johnson on National television in a Republican debate, a man who has said “I’ve never asked God for forgiveness,” a man who would use eminent domain to evict people from their property the way we use toothpaste, a man who used God and Christianity as a political prop …

    You Trump voters are like those Hebrews in Jeremiah’s day who thought that going down to Egypt to Pharaoh would deliver you from Babylon.

    B.) I very much get the allure of Trump. We’ve been awaiting a miracle a long while and it’s hard not to see this populist surge in the States and Europe as the strong hand of Providence. But until Trump sees the sign of the Cross on the sun, he’s no Constantine. And until he becomes the most humble of men and speaks the commands of God in Faith, he’s no Moses. At best he may prove a Cyrus, a Nebuchadnezzar, or an Alexander the Great. And that would be a tremendous gift in itself.

    But inasmuch as the law of kin-rule (Deut. 17:15) is first a call to elect only physical kin over us, Deuteronomy 1:13 elaborates that those kinsmen-candidates whom we would exalt must also be ‘wise, understanding, and knowledgeable in the Law of God, and thus in the Christian Faith. This concept is all the more reinforced in the NT as we are admonished that our “overseers are to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled,” etc. (1 Tim. 3:10) and that we shall appoint no man hastily lest we partake of his sin (1 Tim. 5:22).

    Trump looks like he has the presidency in the bag, and I confess that I see implied in that that God has not condemned us utterly to destruction. But I’m nonetheless convicted that His Word wards me against voting for the man myself. Strange as that is.

    I suppose my position is similar to that of John Knox in regard to Queen Elizabeth: while he might have appreciated her in the sense that her Protestant reign was a great relief, he nonetheless denied that she was qualified to rule.

    C.) Put bluntly, given the dynamics of our rapidly changing culture, I believe it will be increasingly difficult to be a good Christian and a good American. It is far more important to me to preserve the faith than to preserve liberal democracy and the American order. Ideally, there should not be a contradiction, but again, the realities of post-Christian America challenge our outdated ideals.

    Rod Dreher

    First Things

    D.)Memorial Day … perhaps one of the Highest Holy Days of American Civil Religion.

    E.) “War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”

    Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

    Two Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner

    F.)  “All American wars save the South’s War for Independence and the American war for Independence — Wars of defense of home and hearth — have been examples of ‘Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight.’ The fighting was often gallant and heroic. the courage exemplary and honorable, and the intent sold as noble and uplifting. Yet despite all that, our country’s wars shed the blood of hundreds of thousands of men for reasons that had precious little to do with our Nation’s liberty. In brief, good men died in order to support the chicanery of bad men’s desire for profit and glory.”

    S. Miles Deagle

    G.) “A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over…is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.”

    G.K. ChestertonH.)

    “War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”

    Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

    Two Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner

    I.) “I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.”

    Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

    Two Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner

    J.) War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

    Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

    Two Time Congressional Medal of Honor Winner

    K.) At 11:02 am, 09 August, 1945, during morning mass, Nagasaki Christianity was boiled, evaporated and carbonized in a scorching radioactive fireball that exploded 500 meters above the cathedral. Ground Zero for the American A-Bomb was the persecuted, vibrant, surviving center of Japanese Christianity. Indeed Nagasaki, Japan was the epicenter of Asian Christianity.

    Since the Cathedral was the epicenter of the blast, most Nagasaki Christians did not survive. 6000 of them died instantly, including all who were at confession that morning. Of the 12,000 church members, 8,500 died as a direct result of the bomb. Three orders of nuns and a Christian girl’s school disappeared into black smoke or chunks of charred remains.
    What the Japanese Imperial government could not do in over 200 years of persecution, destroy Japanese Christianity, American Christians did in 9 seconds. Even today those who are members of Christian churches in Japan represent a fraction of 1% of the population, and the average attendance at Christian worship services is 30.

A Few Facts About The Sainted Noble Savage

Fact — As a general rule, all captive males captured during internecine tribal warfare among American Indians were tortured for days until they died. Celebrations were planned around such events with entire villages gathered to watch and possibly participate in the ritual torture of captives.

Fact — The Aztecs practiced human sacrifice on a vast scale. Tens of thousands of people among their tribal enemies were ritually killed and turned into dinner. Solid evidence exists that this same etiquette was practiced by the Carib Indians, the Maya Indians, and the Inca Indians.

Fact — Land was “owned” collectively by a given tribe, but only as long as they controlled it through the killing of the other aboriginals who wandered onto their territory. Possession of land was 10/10ths of the law. Ownership thus was constantly in flux as one tribe drove out another.

Fact — The Sioux (or Lakota) claim that the Black Hills was stolen from them by the White man in the 1870’s. What the ignorant liberals don’t tell you is that the Sioux stole that land from the Blackfeet and the Arapahoe in the 1770s when they (Sioux) left Minnesota. In the same way, the Shawnee claim White people took Ohio and Indiana from them in the first decades of the 1800s. What you don’t know is that the Shawnee took it first from the Fox and the Sauk tribes. Just so the Comanche dispossessed the Apache from West Texas while the Apache chased away the Ute and Navaho in Southern New Mexico and Arizona. Just so the Assiniboine and the Nez Perce slaughtered the Shoshone in Montana and Idaho. Ownership of the land was a literal bloody mess.

Fact — When the first white men showed up in N. America in the 17th century there were at that time approximately 1 million Indians in America which averages out to 1 human being for every 3 square miles. Even the number of 1 million is disputed, some scholars arguing for a much lower number.

Fact — American Indians never owned the N. American land. They merely occupied it being largely a wandering nomadic people.

Fact — American Indians were what Thomas Jefferson referred to them as in the Declaration of Independence, to wit, “savages.” Most if not all the tribes of North America lived in a constant state of intermittent warfare among their neighboring Indian tribal “Brothers.” Starvation, raids for scarce food, and large-scale conflicts for revenge were commonplace.

Fact — American Indians glorified the values of violence and cruel warfare. Scalping and torture were a routine part of North American Indian culture as were burning their captives alive, slow disembowelment, and impalement through the anus. There was nothing noble about these savages.

A Discussion on Christian Nationalism w/ Perry & Whitehead

Perry and Whitehead define Christian nationalism as:

..a cultural framework—a collection of myths, traditions, symbols, narratives, and value systems—that idealizes and advocates a fusion of Christianity with American civic life … the ‘Christianity’ of Christian nationalism represents something more than religion. As we will show, it includes assumptions of nativism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity, along with divine sanction for authoritarian control and militarism. It is as ethnic and political as it is religious. (p. 10)

BLMc responds,

Let us consider this for a second.

Since Perry and Whitehead want to begin with cultural frameworks let us spend a little time first talking about culture and then how culture will always express itself nationalistically.

I would contend that culture is defined as the outward manifestation of a people’s inward belief. To make that even pithier, culture is theology externalized. Yet a third way to speak about this is that culture is the consequence of some theology poured over ethnicity. The constant in these definitions is that culture is inescapably tied to theology.

If that is true (and it is) the cultural frameworks will always and inescapably include a collection of myths, traditions, symbols, narratives, and value systems since those realities are downstream of theology. Those collections of myths, traditions, symbols, narratives, and value systems as a cultural framework will then always and inevitably be the result of some fusion with some religion becoming American civic life. The Christian Nationalist merely steps up to the microphone and insists that the inevitable fusion with religion that is going to occur — the fusion in question — be a fusion with Christianity as opposed to a fusion with some other religion. In other words, a Nation can’t exist apart from some religion creating its culture. The Nation itself, in terms of how it constitutes itself, is a living and breathing expression of religion. For Perry and Whitehead to imply that Christians shouldn’t desire a Christian Nationalism then is just a backdoor special pleading for some other kind of Nationalism that they favor.

The next step out from this is that what results in culture and theology being tied together, as they inescapably are, is always some kind of Nationalism. Even the Internationalist who says he hates Nationalism is advocating for Global Nationalism.

My point here is that Perry and Whitehead and Tim Keller and Russell Moore are one and all Nationalists. Their beef with Christian Nationalism is that it is not their version of Christian Nationalism. Their beef is that the Nationalism they are railing against is not the kind of Nationalism that they desire.

Perry and Whitehead and later Keller on steroids rails against nativism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity. Yet in all that railing all I hear is a plea on their part for a Nationalism that is alienist xenophilic, non-white supremacist, egalitarian, and sexually pluralistic. At least for Keller, he seems to think that this would be Christian nationalism at its best.


Next, where is the sin in some of these realities that Perry and Whitehead describe in their inquisition against Christian Nationalism? Where is the sin in abjuring multiculturalism in favor of the native? Is White Supremacy in lands settled and created by white people any more curious than Japanese Supremacy in the land that the Japanese ancestors settled and created? And as Scripture teaches patriarchy all Christian nations should have their social order structured around Christian patriarchy then patriarchy is a positive good. Finally, obviously, there is a great deal of horror in heternormativity. How could any Christian Nationalist ever desire that?

Perry and Whitehead start making it up when they suggest that Christian Nationalism is about authoritarian control and militarism. Remember, our Christian ancestors were the ones who created a divided government with checks and balances. That hardly sounds like authoritarian control. In terms of Militarism, we Christians were the ones who originally insisted that there should be no standing army and only a small navy.

Finally, as politics is downstream of theology and as theology creates culture as expressed by distinct peoples then of course Christian Nationalism is as ethnic and political as it is religious. So what?

When it is all said and done Perry and Whitehead are merely bitching that some people out there desire a different Nationalism as based on a different religion than they do. They want a Nationalism that is the exact opposite of what they are complaining about and as such they seek to criminalize the Christian Nationalism that makes them scream like Junior High girls seeing a mouse in the shower.