The Complete List of Marxist, Un-American, Anti-White Things
June 16, 2021 6:14 PM   Subscribe

 
Have you ever read a link description and experienced full-body shuddering cringe without even clicking on it to find out what's inside it?
posted by Scattercat at 7:59 PM on June 16, 2021 [2 favorites]


I see he quotes Mississippi Sen. and Klan member Theodore Bilbo. He can always be counted upon for a full-bore racist opinion. Another is, "“I call on every red-blooded white man to use any means to keep the n*****s away from the polls." (1946).

Or how about, “That the Negro is inferior to the Caucasian has been proved by six thousand years of world-wide experimentation." (1947)

Or back before WWII when Hitler was on the rise, "The Germans appreciate the importance of race values." (1938)
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 8:51 PM on June 16, 2021 [8 favorites]


They don't know what communism is, they're just used to the context of the original translation from 1930s Germany. Like jews were simultaneously the world's greediest capitalists and radical marxists. The important part is that they're jews and you should hate them.
posted by adept256 at 9:14 PM on June 16, 2021 [16 favorites]


This is brilliant, thanks for posting it.
posted by medusa at 9:19 PM on June 16, 2021 [1 favorite]


Well, when you put it like that . . .
posted by flamk at 10:11 PM on June 16, 2021


These quotes and links can't possibly be real. But of course they are.
posted by Pyrogenesis at 11:49 PM on June 16, 2021 [5 favorites]


I love The Root

Quite horrifying, some of that
posted by subaruwrx at 12:25 AM on June 17, 2021 [2 favorites]


“Marxism” seems to colloquially mean “anything that questions established hierarchies”.
posted by acb at 2:53 AM on June 17, 2021 [18 favorites]


This is a really fine article, sad but true. True when I was a white kid growing up in the 50s and 60s, still true today in this heavily Republican town.
posted by mermayd at 5:45 AM on June 17, 2021


“Marxism” seems to colloquially mean “anything that questions established hierarchies”.

Which is accurate enough as far as Marx is concerned, funnily enough. Say what you will about communism's history of implementation, but his critique of capital remains spot on.
posted by Gelatin at 6:06 AM on June 17, 2021 [10 favorites]


There are two ways this title could have gone: a nice snarky McSweeney’s listicle, or a cogent, incisive, uncomfortably on-point Michael Harriot piece. I fully acknowledge my white privilege in reflexively kind of hoping it was the former before I’d had my coffee this morning.
posted by gelfin at 7:10 AM on June 17, 2021 [1 favorite]


I think if we (or the press, or scholars, teachers, etc.) pointed out interest convergence a little more then that might be a good way for people to see privilege a little more clearly. It's almost like pointing out the difference between communism and Marxism, or that you don't teach CRT but that you use it as a lens with which to see things.
posted by Snowishberlin at 10:03 AM on June 17, 2021 [2 favorites]


Congrats, commie, you've just been added to this list.
posted by jcterminal at 10:05 AM on June 17, 2021 [2 favorites]


Snowishberlin: I think if we (or the press, or scholars, teachers, etc.) pointed out interest convergence a little more then that might be a good way for people to see privilege a little more clearly. It's almost like pointing out the difference between communism and Marxism, or that you don't teach CRT but that you use it as a lens with which to see things.

Watching some of the Southern Baptist arguments over CRT over the past couple of days has been instructive. There's a subset of people who will do everything they can to say that CRT is related to Marxism, therefore it is anti-Christian and evil. However, there are a few among the Southern Baptists who are willing to stick their neck out and say things similar to what you're saying about using it as a useful lens. (The 52%-48% winner of their presidential election has said vague things about it, defeating the candidate who said it was very bad no good horrible.)
posted by clawsoon at 10:44 AM on June 17, 2021 [4 favorites]


It is infuriating to read that speech from 1938 that is literally the exact same nonsense — word for word! — these unreconstructed bigots are saying right now. (Cleaned up from my original Class V Profane Tirade™.)

Also I am extremely embarrassed that I ever thought Jason Whitlock was someone worth listening to.
posted by ob1quixote at 11:44 AM on June 17, 2021 [2 favorites]


I’ve long been of the opinion that 99.9 percent of the people running around calling people Marxists couldn’t give you an accurate definition of Marxism if you held a gun to their heads. (I actually once asked one of those people if he would be so kind as to give me his working definition of the term, and he answered, I kid you not, “It’s when people are forced to do things against their beliefs.”) I’m happy to find an actual article that supports the thesis.
posted by holborne at 7:16 PM on June 17, 2021 [3 favorites]


Conservatives not defining their bogeymen is a feature, not a bug. All the better to substitute fearmongering for rational debate and convince their constituents to vote against policies they favor when polled in isolation.

But let's face it, if they were going to argue in good faith they wouldn't be stooping to ad hominem and straw men arguments in the first place.
posted by Gelatin at 12:07 PM on June 18, 2021 [2 favorites]


Mr. Harriot is one of the latest of many worthwhile things MetaFilter has led me to. This article eviscerating “grievance studies” as a response to CRT was very good.
posted by TedW at 12:22 PM on June 18, 2021 [1 favorite]


From TedW's link:

The truth, according to white people, is that America is not a racist country. To them, racial inequality is not the compound interest of white supremacy. It’s that Black people don’t want to put in the work. After two-and-a-half centuries of forced labor that filled the overflowing coffers of white America, Black people just spontaneously misplaced their work ethic and stopped taking responsibility for their actions.

Daaamn.
posted by medusa at 1:58 PM on June 18, 2021 [5 favorites]


two-and-a-half centuries of forced labor that filled the overflowing coffers of white America

The book "The Half Has Never Been Told" was an education for me, on this topic. Cotton became a huge financial boom, and investors were eager to get in. A great deal of the wealth that generated the expansion of the American economy in the industrial period was generated by this speculation. It is not tenable to think of the pre-Civil War economy as divided between Bad slave owning States and Good free States; the entire financial system was deeply involved in financing the expansion of slavery. There is a lot else going on in the book, it is hard going, but surely reading about the atrocities inflicted upon enslaved persons is just nothing compared to what they endured.
posted by thelonius at 2:20 PM on June 18, 2021 [2 favorites]


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