Identity Politics Risk National Security
Racism, racism, racism. The mainstream media molds every alleged incident that involves a white person and a non-white person to the narrative of systemically racist America. For more than six months American news covered the “mostly peaceful protests” across the country. In the rest of the world, they covered the nearly 600 race riots around the nation. Riots that occurred while police didn’t respond as they were pelted with bottles and rocks because they would be cited for police brutality. Can you imagine prostate police anywhere else in the world? The world can’t either. Some superpower.
The brutal murder in Atlanta of eight people, including six Asian women, by a white man that obviously suffers from mental illness created a torrent of press coverage about discrimination against Asians. His mental illness was cast into immediate doubt. NBC reported that white men regularly use sex addiction to be absolved of crimes. They reported that white men get away with their actions due to white privilege. China news headlined the tragedy with: Sexism? Or racism? What else could it be in American? Commenting on the event, Vice President Kamala Harris said: “Racism is real in America. And it has always been. Xenophobia is real in America, and always has been. Sexism, too.” I know Harris has been beefing up her international bonafides but she seems to have missed that her identity politics are being broadcast to the world and portraying America as an appalling place. Next time, she might want to also say something like America is a world leader in anti-racism and it has the most successful minority and female populations in the world, but we still have work to do. And by the way, there is no evidence that this incident is related to racism or sexism.
As if on Harris’s cue, China’s permanent UN representative, Chen Xu, speaking to the UN Assembly urged America to stop the spread of racism and racial discrimination against blacks and Asians, and xenophobia, and then he chucked in every white western nation as guilty of the same. The Chinese are lapping up America’s war on white people. It’s like the gift that keeps on giving. In the meetings between China and America in Alaska this past week, the Chinese delegation scoffed at America leading from strength. They pummeled America on the epidemic of racism as evident in the endless and meritless gunning down of black people by police. (In 2019 there were eight unarmed black men being pursued for crimes that didn’t threaten police killed by police.) The Chinese can hardly be blamed for this conclusion. Americans of every political persuasion severely overestimated how many blacks have been killed by police. Many thought the number of unarmed black men killed by police in 2019 was over 10,000.
Kudos to the success of the mainstream media and Democrats for their endless pursuit of identity politics. It is time for a giant victory dance. They have wrongly cemented the ideas of both racist cops and impotent cops patrolling the streets of America, and they have altered the world view of America from a superpower to a hell hole of racism. Can you imagine China, a nation that: has placed 1 million Muslims Uighurs in conditions described as state-sponsored slavery; hosts the world’s largest open-air prison in Tibet or is that now Hong Kong; a nation that allows zero non-Chinese people to become naturalized citizens; sponsors television that features Chinese in blackface in 2021 as a “sign of respect” for black people; and condones heinous levels of rampant racism against blacks on the internet, lecturing the United States on discrimination. China told America to butt out and deal with its own problems of racial repression. Well, I guess American identity politics made this bed and Americans have to sleep in it. Hopefully America’s credibility in the world isn’t being destroyed so much that China and communism will win the Cold War after all and China will be the only superpower.