Make me, make me your victim,
Re.sis.tance is only a symptom…
Of bigotry
I am so
guil.ty,
so
Make me your victim.
Make me, make me your victim
Elect Hillary Clinton…
She knows
the score
Reparations
and more,
so
Make me your victim.
(Parody of Barbara Lewis, “Make Me your Baby”,
1965)
Extortion = by definition: the practice of obtaining (something, such as
money) from a person by the use of force or threats
Let’s begin with extortion in its crudest, most
elemental form: a physical threat to get something you want – money or some
other object of material value. “Give
me your wallet or I’ll knock your teeth out” – direct, easy to understand,
transactional. I get your wallet with
your money and credit cards: you keep only part of what you started out with, your teeth. Obviously a better deal for me.
Now, let’s move up a slight notch in criminal
sophistication to what I would call a “reputational” threat against
someone. “Give me five thousand
dollars or I’ll show your wife and daughter the photos I have of you in the
sack with your secretary last year.”
No physical threat but I get five thousand dollars I didn’t have to work
very hard for: you hang on (at least for a while) to what you already had, your
good reputation and the affection of your wife and daughter.
These examples are of individuals at work, but “give
me or else…” also works well as a group exercise – protection rackets, for
example. You make regular monthly
payments to some churlish local gangster who in exchange does not let any of
his associates burn down your family store. Again, a nice, easy deal for him;
for you, one more business expense, one you cannot even write off.
Some political regimes
are extortion machines. The Castro
brothers are a splendid example. In 1959 they chased Fulgencio Batista out of
the Presidential palace in Havana and off the island and proceeded to murder,
imprison and exile anyone whose Leninist bona fides were suspect, some of whom
had fought with them, helped to bring Batista down and naïve enough to believe
Fidel’s deceitful promise of democracy and free elections. Firmly in power, here was the extortionist
deal they offered the Cuban people: “pretend you love the Maximum Lider and
the socialist paradise he is building for you.
Don’t even think about criticizing the regime or mounting political
opposition or openly practice your religious beliefs and ideals, and be ready
to squeal on your friends and neighbors if they seem less than enthusiastic. In
exchange: for you, no firing squad, forced labor camps, re-education centers or
social ostracism. You may get to keep your crappy, low paying job with no
future, can go to the local clinic for free when you get sick, oh, and eat rice
and beans every day, sold to you cheap by the Party that loves you. Viva la Revolución!”
Let’s, however, continue with a very sophisticated
extortionist system that is currently in vogue and has been for some time,
identity politics, the staple, now it seems, of the Democrat party assisted by
the organs of the mainstream media.
Identity politics, no matter what the particular
version you’re currently saddled with, rests on a single fundamental premise:
the historical domination and exploitation of one group by another group
explains every aspect of today’s disparities in social positioning, economic
achievement and individual success. This gift came from Karl Marx stated in a
more turgid form at the beginning of the Communist Manifesto, written in
1848. “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history
of class struggles.”
For the romantics at heart there is something wildly
exciting and extremely appealing with this formulation. It is simple, rich with
drama and the promise of violence, and the potential for sweeping change, for
revolution. Just like Fidel and Che, you grow a beard, pick up a gun, and take
on the old, corrupt power structure. It is particularly appealing to young
people perpetually out of sorts because the world does not seem to be the
perfectly fair, peaceful and harmonious place they think it should be. Not
surprising then that Marx’s theoretical ghost continues to haunt us all in ways
we may not even realize.
For today’s Marxists “class
struggle” (the workers versus the capitalists) does not begin to capture
the range of the struggles and the multiplicity of domination and oppression
that is the real picture of our predatory, have/have-nots world. The
aggressions of the ruling class must now be measured in “micro” units “micro-aggressions” as we have come to
know them, detected by “diversity”
specialists professionally trained to decode the daily slights experienced by
the historically underrepresented have-nots. Blacks oppressed by whites, women
by men, gays and transgendered by heterosexuals, indigenous peoples by European
colonialists, animals by humans, etc., each group with their own unique set of
grievances and demands for redress. And
so the “history of all hitherto society”,
yes, Mr. Marx, is still all about “struggle”,
but it is far more complicated, persistent and extensive than you ever imagined.
Your followers, though, have risen to meet the challenge. You would be proud.
Within this complex picture of domination and oppression “identity politics” was born. This world
is made up exclusively of victims and victimizers and one’s search for identity
becomes the task of discovering which particular victim group has a history
that best captures the narrative of one’s personal grievances. Once the awful
picture of the victims and their oppressors becomes clear, then the next and
most important step is to know where the ongoing “struggle”, envisioned by the German prophet and the mental dwarfs who
still carry on his message, is going.
The struggle has a conclusion and the good guys win. As Marx puts it technically, “The expropriators are expropriated.”
We are now fully immersed in the “expropriation” phase of identity politics which is where the
professional expropriators (extortionists) step in and turn up the heat. First
they have to sell the scam, the bogus, collectivist fable that everyone belongs
to a victim community or an oppressor group. Many if not most individuals may
not even realize that they are victims or oppressors. They need to be tutored in this regard and
made to understand their position in this equation of domination and exploitation.
“White privilege”
is a good example of how this brainwashing works, a recent invention of
racial-extortion agitprop that is now making its way into the schools,
universities and workplaces.
“White skin privilege is not something that white people necessarily do,
create or enjoy on purpose. Unlike the more overt individual and institutional
manifestations of racism described above, white skin privilege is a transparent
preference for whiteness that saturates our society. White skin privilege serves several functions. First, it provides white
people with “perks” that we do not earn and that people of color do not enjoy.
Second, it creates real advantages for us. White people are immune to a lot of
challenges. Finally, white privilege shapes the world in which we live — the
way that we navigate and interact with one another and with the world.” (http://www.tolerance.org/article/racism-and-white-privilege)
Convinced? Ready to relinquish those “perks” and “advantages”
you don’t deserve and didn’t earn and once mistakenly believed had nothing to
do with that “whiteness” you’ve been
flaunting around since Mom pushed you out into the hands of the nurses? The point is, once I believe that the all the
folks in my tribe have been permanently injured and you are convinced that your
tribe has done it, then the “squeeze”
is set up and the “marks” are primed
for the plucking. Into the room strolls Al or Barack – it is payback time. The leverage they use to extract
(extort) what they want from white America is guilt. And the guilt is of what?
Racism. “Please, really, I am not a
racist. I swear! What can I do to convince you? Something tells me that
this is not a strong bargaining position.
Here then is the deal they offer: “do
what we want and someday you may be forgiven for the sin of racism.” It sounds like extortion to me. Please understand that “someday” is a very long way away and only they get to say
when. What do they want? Here is how it
works:
“There is an old
saying that the victors of war get to write the history of the world. White
privilege works this way, too. Since white folks have been in control for so
long, we have determined what is valuable or interesting or useful in terms of
education. Greek and Roman mythology, Chaucer, and other canonized works have
been selected and revered through the ages as critical components of any “solid
liberal arts education.” (http://www.tolerance.org/article/racism-and-white-privilege)
Nothing subtle here. It’s all about power – “white folks have been in control for so
long…” There is no win-win, only
winners and losers. The expropriators are about to be expropriated.
This, obviously, was written by a lobotomized white person
who has surrendered himself to the extortionists. In his pathetic world there are only victims
and victimizers. Chocking on his guilt as a victimizer, he must now become a
victim. “I plead guilty: as the oppressor, my mind and heart and the my power of
whiteness now belong to you, you who have been my victims. Please … make me your victim!”
Slavery, Jim Crow and segregation are all dark stains on
America’s past. Slavery has been dead
for 150 years. Jim Crow and forced
segregation are fifty years past. But
for extortionists like Al Sharpton they are timeless, permanent levers of
guilt. Here is how President Obama, Mr.
Eloquence, himself, recently formulated this feature of permanence.
“What is also true
is that the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination is in almost every
institution of our lives — you know, that casts a long shadow. And that's still
part of our DNA that's passed on. We're not cured of it.” (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/22/416476377/we-are-not-cured-obama-discusses-racism-in-america-with-marc-maron)
Not much eloquence in this. Yes, “you know”, the “cure”
will be someday, but not for a very long time.
Obama did not talk like this when he was running for
President. Remember this gem from the
speech that launched his national career at the Democratic Convention in 2004?
“There is not a Black America and a White
America and Latino America and Asian America—there's the United States of
America.” I guess he didn't learn about DNA until later.
What happened? The community organizer was plotting to be
President. He needed white votes. Many
if not most white voters would not be thrilled with a President preoccupied
with racial grievances, a President who wanted to keep them on the hook for
what some or even none of their ancestors had done one hundred and fifty years
ago, a President who talked like every white police officer was another Bull
Connor. Openly extortionist campaigners don’t make good Presidential
candidates. Once in office the fake “make
nice” routine dropped away and the “we’re
all in it together” shtick turned into the racism “that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on.” Ok, the guy we
thought was supposed to be our Nelson Mandela instead turned out to be Robert
Mugabe. The candidate who was going to help us “transcend” the racial divide became the President who is close to
and consults regularly with Al Sharpton, one of the most scurrilous, lying,
bottom-feeding, shakedown artists to be found anywhere under a rock. This
President sent three White House representatives to the funeral of a black
criminal (Michael Brown) but cannot even bring himself to mention the tragic,
violent death of the highly decorated U.S. Navy SEAL Christopher Kyle (two
Silver Star Medals and Five Bronze Star Medals) who, you guessed it, just
happened to be white.
Identity politics and its extortionist methods work because
the ideological snake oil of collective victimhood and guilt has been
ceaselessly peddled for so long by the cultural Marxists and has now penetrated
deeply into American metapolitics and makes resistance to it nearly impossible.
The hysterical, mass-slander carried out by the mainstream media against Trump
and his supporters and Hillary Clinton’s recent reduction of Trump supporters
to “Untermenschen” (that “basket of deplorables” who are “unredeemable”) signals
perhaps some sort of endgame for traditional American politics.
