There is a quote attributed to the French philosopher Voltaire, who is credited with observing that the ability or inability to offer critiques of certain people demonstrates who really pulls the strings. A lot of noise is currently made of white privilege, white supremacy, and whiteness. At the same time, Black History Month contradictorily shares a narrative of both black power and black oppression. Perhaps the idea of black power represents their wielding of control over a muzzled white population by pretending to be victimized.
Pop culture is a bastion of debauchery and shamelessness, but it also encapsulates everything wrong with the present-day notion of whites being in control of, well, anything. Assuming white privilege and white supremacist institutions were the norm, we might expect whites to say whatever they wanted and do whatever they wanted, free from punishment. Relatedly, to accept that black victimization occurred every day and twice on Sunday, we might expect that for casting the slightest aspersion toward the ruling class (i.e. white folx, as they now say), or getting uppity, that the blowback would be swift and immediate.
However, just the opposite occurs. Voltaire’s exact quote reads: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” Critique of past monarchs resulted in beheadings; drawing even a smiley face of Allah portends imminent death by assassination; does the black community fear speaking out against whites, or is it in fact just the opposite?
In recent weeks, cancel culture has gone from ludicrous speed to plaid in its efforts to silence and shame anyone they deem a threat to The Narrative.
They’re Trying to Shut Us Down
Over the last several months, I’ve lost count of how many times the powers-that-be have tried to shut us down. They’ve sent hackers at us, forcing us to take extreme measures on web security. They sent attorneys after us, but thankfully we’re not easily intimidated by baseless accusations or threats. They’ve even gone so far as to make physical threats. Those can actually be a bit worrisome but Remington has me covered.
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JD Rucker