{"id":11878,"date":"2019-06-24T19:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T02:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11878"},"modified":"2019-06-24T19:40:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T02:40:47","slug":"crack-ups-at-the-crossroads-of-intersectionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/crack-ups-at-the-crossroads-of-intersectionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Crack-ups at the Crossroads of Intersectionality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progressives do not see the United States as an exceptional uniter of factions and tribes into a cohesive whole\u2014each citizen subordinating his tribal, ethnic, and religious affinities to a shared Americanism, emblemized by our national motto&nbsp;<em>e pluribus unum<\/em>. Instead, they prefer&nbsp;<em>e uno plures<\/em>: out of one nation arise many innately different and separate peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progressivism\u2019s signature brand is now tribalism: all of us in different ways are victims of a white male Christian heterosexual patriarchy\u2014or a current 20 percent hierarchy that past and present has supposedly oppressed anyone not like themselves. In contrast, our differences define who we are, and are not incidental to the content of our characters. The salad bowl, not the melting pot, is the new national creed. America is to be a conglomeration of competing tribal parties in the fashion of the Balkans, Rwanda, or contemporary Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How does the relative victimhood work politically? Progressive elites (oddly often white, but \u201cwoke,\u201d males) serve as umpires who adjudicate familial spats and intersectional fractures. Like good cowboys, they ride herd, directing the squabbling and snorting flock in the right direction without losing too many strays on the way to the election booth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is Mayor Pete Buttigieg, recently confronted as an unwoke white guy by Black Lives Matter activists, a white male elite, or an oppressed gay male victim who feels the Christian faithful, like his former working associate Mike Pence, supposedly oppress him to the degree he cannot ever be slurred as an oppressor of others who are nonwhite, not affluent, and non-male? In this world of collective woke stereotypes, are inner-city blacks and Catholic Hispanics victims of white males like Buttigieg, or disproportionately insensitive victimizers of such gays as Buttigieg?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/06\/23\/crack-ups-at-the-crossroads-of-intersectionality\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Progressives do not see the United States as an exceptional uniter of factions and tribes into a cohesive whole\u2014each citizen subordinating his tribal, ethnic, and religious affinities to a shared Americanism, emblemized by our national motto&nbsp;e pluribus unum. Instead, they prefer&nbsp;e uno plures: out of one nation arise many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1167,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-35A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11323,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-police-were-not-policed\/","url_meta":{"origin":11878,"position":0},"title":"The Police Were Not Policed","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review No doubt Russia must be watched for its chronic efforts to sow more chaos in American elections \u2014 despite Barack Obama\u2019s na\u00efve assertion in 2016 that no entity could possibly ever rig a U.S. election, given the decentralization of state voting. Lately the heads\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FBI&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FBI","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fbi\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8443,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-home-of-intellectual-populism-could-use-your-help\/","url_meta":{"origin":11878,"position":1},"title":"The Home of Intellectual Populism Could Use Your Help","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 29, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\u00a0\/\/ NRO- The Corner I have written for National Review since the third bleak day after September 11, 2001, and have not missed a column since. 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But I gather, under changed circumstances, such deference no longer applies, given that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Kevin Williamson&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Kevin Williamson","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/kevin-williamson\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12741,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-faces-a-critical-choice-about-his-political-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":11878,"position":3},"title":"Trump Faces a Critical Choice About His Political Future","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Donald Trump\u00a0is nearing a crossroads. Those who allege that he has endangered the tradition of smooth presidential transitions by not conceding immediately after the media declared him the loser suffer amnesia. 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