{"id":13055,"date":"2021-03-29T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13055"},"modified":"2021-03-29T09:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:32:38","slug":"is-racism-moral-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-racism-moral-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Racism Moral Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <em>American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expediencies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people . . .&nbsp;<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">\u2014Damon Young,&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;contributor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Over the past year, I have, of course, still had to interact with white people on Zoom or watch them on television or worry about whether they would succeed in reelecting a white-supremacist president. But white people aren\u2019t in my face all of the time. I can, more or less, only deal with whiteness when I want to . . . White people haven\u2019t improved; I\u2019ve just been able to limit my exposure to them.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">\u2014Elie Mystal,&nbsp;<em>The Nation&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Racism is the deductive bias against, and often hatred of, an entire racial group. It is often birthed by dislike of particular individuals of a given group that supposedly justifies, by extension, disliking or indeed hating all of them. The popular reaction against this widespread toxic pathology shown African Americans birthed the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, the resistance to Jim Crow, and the modern Civil Rights movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/03\/28\/is-racism-moral-now\/\">Read More&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness \u201cWhiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expediencies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people . . .&nbsp;\u201d \u2014Damon Young,&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;contributor \u201cOver the past year, [&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-3oz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13626,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/eeyores-cabinet-the-paradoxes-of-woke-racism\/","url_meta":{"origin":13055,"position":0},"title":"Eeyore&#8217;s Cabinet: The Paradoxes of Woke Racism","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers Part One Here are the first three of five observations about our current woke racial mania. 1. 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