Whoopi Goldberg is in trouble again with her antisemitism. To which I ask: what do you expect? Blacks have been encouraged to be racist about everything and see themselves as the world’s foremost victims. Antisemitism is the same: non Jewish people experiencing themselves as the eternal victims of the Jews.
Same little problem with our feminist friends. All of a sudden women are not helpless victims, but nasty TERFs beating up on helpless transgenders. OMG! Trans-exclusionary radical feminists! Not helpless victims of the patriarchy since the dawn of time, but brutal oppressors of helpless innocent trans people, also oppressed since before the dawn of time! The worst thing in the world!
I know you are thinking that it serves the feminists right. And indeed, at the end of the revolution the revolutionaries usually turn on each other. That’s what is happening right now as I get close to Thermidor in Simon Schama’s history of the French Revolution, Citizens.
But it doesn’t hurt to have billionairess J.K. Rowling on your side.
But whatabout Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who became head of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington? “I identify as black,” she said, after stepping down. Of course.
Maybe if her parents had stood by her back in the day.
Talking Monday night on CNN, her mother Ruthanne Dolezal went so far as to characterize her daughter as “irrational and very disconnected from reality,” while her father, Larry, said her actions aren’t those of “a normal sane person.”
Listen, you bigots! She is transracial, a white person identifying as black. And we all know that race is a “social construction” devised by racist scientists in the 19th century to keep blacks down on the plantation.
I say that it is time for transracials to come out of the closet where they have been confined since the Big Bang and witness to their “lived experience.” And if you don’t agree you are a transphobe.
In my life I find that I identify with blacks and their history of oppression. My British father escaped from Bolshevik Russia in 1918, and hid in a chimney on his way to Sweden to avoid capture by slave-catchers German troops. My mother left Japan in 1940 just in the nick of time. Suppose she had stayed just a few more months and been interned in a slave-labor camp? I was born in India, just a year before Indian independence, and my Dad had to leave because white guys like him were no longer wanted. And all my life, people like me have been scorned in England as “Tory toffs.”
Whaddya think of that lived experience?
In the United States my lived experience is that I have been called a racist in public to my face twice: once by the black son of a college professor, and once by a gay son of a white trash family. How to you think that makes me feel?
Is it surprising that I feel marginalized and oppressed? How would you feel being humiliated all your life by Commies and Labourites and Brahmins and liberal anti-racists and all the ships at sea?
I’m oppressed, that’s what I am, and I identify with the marquee oppressed community in all creation.
I identify as transracial, and if you disagree you are a racist bigot.