01/31/2019
During the Obamacare debates, a simple policy difference between those promoting that law and those of us opposing it was reduced to ad hominem attacks of "racism" by the bill's proponents. That was certainly not the first time the "Race Card" had been thrown in debates upon which race was most certainly a non-issue, but it set the precedent for that card now being used in virtually every discussion or policy debate.
"Identity Politics" is now the only lens through which the left filters all our political, economic, social, and philosophical differences. Why? Simple. It requires no reliance on facts or truth to rally support or votes behind their causes and candidates. Only emotion and feelings.
Unfortunately . . . the science of the brain supports that strategy. As such, those whose feelings override irrefutable evidence are easily taken advantage of by those who've learned to "emotionally charge" the debate.
Many years ago, I labeled this type of person as having something akin to "Political Anorexia." After Karen Carpenter's death in 1983, I read a series of doctor-related accounts of women with anorexia. I recall one in which a young lady was standing on the scale in her doctor's office, as it registered her weight at 88 lbs. She looked at the doctor and said, "Your scale is wrong. I know I'm more than 200 lbs."
We see the manifestation of a similar mental disease in the aftermath of this Covington Catholic brouhaha. Video evidence provides irrefutable evidence that these TEENAGE boys were being verbally assaulted by two groups of ADULT political activists -- which included vile racial insults. The boys NEVER responded in kind. Not even once. Hours of video and audio evidence, from all angles, corroborate these FACTS. Yet, all across the media and social media spectrums, political anorexics are still declaring these kids to be the racist aggressors in an event with which they neither instigated or participated. They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And . . . some of those boys were wearing a hat which has been declared an ad hoc "racist symbol" by those with no more intellectual capacity than the ability to pronounce all differing political opinions, (from their own), as being racially underpinned.
That's where we are.
(And, there are many layers in that cartoon worth pulling back.)