So are things really becoming “post-racial” out there? No, not so long as leftists continue to fabricate items of supposed racial insensitivity to empower themselves through others’ guilt or fear of being called a racist. If they wouldn’t stop it among themselves, you can bet they aren’t going to stop it now.
The shame is, they encourage people to imitate them and become angry and resentful at just about anything (and if they can’t find anything to be angry resentful about, that’s now supposedly a clear sign that they’ve found something to be angry and resentful about).
For example, some victim of this mentality posted on The News & Observer‘s article about a young man who awoke to find his mother and another man dead in his house. The absolute horror of this tragedy (or crime; authorities would only call the circumstances of the deaths “suspicious”) is lost on one reader, who — even though no races were identified — inferred racially offensive material in the reporter’s description of the neighborhood as “a neat, upscale neighborhood not far from Creekside Elementary School”:
“Neat, upscale neighborhood” …. what the heck does that mean? Upscale has a particular – and for me particularly offensive – meaning of extravagance, conspicuous consumption, and whiteness. The word may have a place in restaurant reviews and real estate advertorial, but not in hard news. Or is it a code word for “white” neighborhood? There are certainly several antonyms of upscale used for black neighborhoods. Just curious.
Several posters urged that that poster have sympathy, till another commenter provided this (emphasis added):
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When you have to explain that a remark isn’t racial, it usually is. And black people can make racially charged remarks the same as white people;
That sentence is true and would be refreshing in today’s highly charged atmosphere, but it doesn’t mean what it seems like what it means. Continuing:
we all know self hating black people (Ward Connerlly) and they have some of the same if not worse views than “non racist” white people. (You know the people that are “not racist” who have had a black person over for dinner, but it was a black person that wasn’t like “those” people). Ignorance knows no colors or bounds.
