Racism All the Way Down
18th May 2021
Steve Hayward at Power Line.
The Democratic Party’s current obsession with anti-racism uber alles reminds me of the old apocryphal story of the woman who challenged a lecturer (usually said to have been Bertrand Russell) with the proposition that “the entire universe is balanced on the shell of a giant turtle.” To which Russell asked, “What’s the turtle standing on then?”
Answer: “You’re very clever young man, but it’s turtles all the way down.”
For the left, it’s racism all the way down. It explains everything, and has to be incorporated into everything now. Except when climate change explains everything, and has to be incorporated into everything.
Totalitarians always focus on language, as Goebbels and Lenin knew well.