{"id":11919,"date":"2019-07-30T13:11:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11919"},"modified":"2019-07-30T13:11:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:11:55","slug":"woke-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/woke-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well before Sigmund Freud formalized the idea of \u201cprojectionism\u201d\u2014the defense of one\u2019s own shortcomings and sins by attributing them to others\u2014it was a common theme in classical literature and the New Testament: the ridiculing of the mole on someone else\u2019s nose to hide one\u2019s own boil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term projection more or less sums up much of the woke identity politics movement, in which obsessions with racial privilege and tribal exceptionalism are justified by accusing others of just such bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While such racist projectionism can often be a psychological tic that assuages the guilt of one\u2019s own rank prejudice, just as often accusing others of racism is a peremptory careerist move to win media attention, lucre, or job advancement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Racists\u2014those who assume those of different races always act collectively in predictable ways, usually far worse than does their own tribe\u2014who charge racism assume that unlike the proverbial wolf crier, there is currently no downside to their hysterias and fantasies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2019\/07\/28\/woke-racism\/\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Well before Sigmund Freud formalized the idea of \u201cprojectionism\u201d\u2014the defense of one\u2019s own shortcomings and sins by attributing them to others\u2014it was a common theme in classical literature and the New Testament: the ridiculing of the mole on someone else\u2019s nose to hide one\u2019s own boil. The term projection [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-36f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12765,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-guide-to-wokespeak\/","url_meta":{"origin":11919,"position":0},"title":"A Guide to Wokespeak","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review With\u00a0the rise of the Left inevitable over the next two years, the public should become acquainted with the Left\u2019s strange language of Wokespeak. 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