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Slurs of Racism and Atheism

9/7/2020

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By Olivia Pierson
First published on Insight@theBFD 02/07/2020

​Why do people care so much about being called a “racist”?

What is it about the term that gets people so worked up and determined to prove they’re not one?

Why does the term have such a moral hold over people that we consider it much worse than being called an ignoramus, a bitch, a ho, a sod or a selfish bastard?
I just don’t get why people care so much about it.
 
If the term is levelled at us, why don’t we just shrug and reply, “Fine, call me what you want for it doesn’t make it true of me,” like we do when we’re called other horrid names?

Instead, people defensively retort, “I’m not a racist!  How dare you call me that!  I have lots of friends from other races – in fact my second-to-last boyfriend was a Raro!”

It reminds me of the 18th Century, when one of the worst slurs to fling at somebody was to call them an “atheist.” To stand accused of not being a Christian was to be anathema to civilisation and decency.

American revolutionary hero Thomas Paine was often accused of being an atheist – especially after he wrote his Deistic book The Age of Reason, which saw him severed as a friend by all his former, respectable compatriots in America, except for Thomas Jefferson. During that time, a Deist was considered to be easily as bad as being an atheist, since it denied the existence of an interventionist God and did not take supernatural miracles literally. To be an atheist meant that others perceived you to be a person of absolutely no virtue or morality. 

Thomas Jefferson was known to get quite touchy if people asked him if he were an atheist. It was a question he refused to answer outright as if an honest answer to the wrong person might cast him in a bad light that would shred his reputation.  To disparage him as a “vulgar, profligate atheist” was a favoured habit of his Federalist political enemies, especially during elections. 

Today, being seen as, or rumoured to be, any kind of racist seems to be the new immoral equivalent of being seen as an atheist in the 18th and early 19th centuries.  How a person feels about another race is entirely a matter of private choice and we shouldn’t care too much about it.  Anti-discrimination laws are already well and truly on the books and have been for some time, so it’s not as if folks can regularly practise hostile actions that stem from feeling racist against another individual or group. 

What is particularly ludicrous at this moment is that the Black Lives Matter movement, which actually is an openly racist identitarian hate-group, scream out in accusation that everyone who doesn’t agree with their claims, their demands and their hate, are racists. They regularly mark these accusations with acts of extreme vandalism toward statuary and private businesses and violence toward real people. Then liberals on both the Left and Right, who are trying so hard to not be seen as racists, get gripped with paranoia and end up completely enthralled to, and kissing the feet of, the loudest racist group that is active in our time. The irony here is just too absurd not to mock.

We shouldn’t care a whit if people call us racists, anymore than we should care if they call us atheists or anything else. Sticks, stones, names, and all that.

​ If you enjoyed this article, please buy my book "Western Values Defended: A Primer"

12 Comments
Clifford Manhire
8/7/2020 08:34:20 pm

Excatly true .why does it have that hold over the masses .

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JMB
8/7/2020 10:21:04 pm

The current situation is pathetic. One example our home grown activists mentioned recently was the slaughter committed by Captain Cook upon arrival in NZ. More in fear most likely. But they do not mention the domestic killings amongst themselves at the time. There was slavery, cannibalism, revenge killings and selling tattooed heads to traders etc. But no mention of this. That was their culture and that's fine.. But these activists are the actual racists. They spit verbal venom. .Good article.

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Graeme
9/7/2020 12:59:12 am

They don’t mention the crew of Cooks ship Adventure killed and eaten
In the Marlborough sounds either

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Pb
9/7/2020 02:28:40 am

Racism, whiteness, masculinity, nationalism have been prepared by cultural propaganda as the greatest modern sins. It has been a slow methodical process that American Hollywood, corporates and their proxy deputies have sown around the world for a hundred years. They seek only to subjugate the world to their whim. They seek to conquer through destruction of the National Christian cultures and replacing it with globalist cowardly slave consumers. But social engineering only works when the victims are not aware. Hollywood, Covid and the fall of Epstein marked the beginning of the end of global propaganda and their elitist dreams. Find your little platoon (Burke) and start the counterculture based on wholesomeness and goodness.

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Purple Flower
9/7/2020 11:14:13 am

If somebody did call me a racist, I would not be in the least bit offended or upset for several reasons below. I wouldn't even bother to respond or protest, because people who accuse others of racism without any justification whatsoever, are simply beyond reasoning with.

[1] In today's vernacular, labeling someone a racist simply means that the person making the ad hominem attack lacks any valid argument and has nothing to offer to the debate. Accusing someone of being a racist is the same as saying: "I don't agree with you but I can't explain why."

[2] People who call other people racist, are themselves so blinded by their own racist attitudes that they see racism in everything, no matter how innocuous and unrelated to racism the point is. The accusation of racism is a mirror image of themselves, but they deflect away their own racism by accusing others of it.

[3] Then there are those who see racism in everything simply because they are ignorant, uneducated, and simply don't understand what racism is. (There is even talk of changing the dictionary definition for racism to accommodate the sensitivities of the ill-informed,)

[4] Another prevalent reason why people call other people racists, is because it makes them feel good about themselves, it makes them feel superior. They really think that if they call someone else a racist, that it proves to the world that they are not racist themselves.

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Doug Longmire
10/7/2020 05:54:10 pm

Well said PF. Often I do not agree with your comments, but you have got it right this time.

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Howie
11/7/2020 06:57:46 am

Yes, you wrote an excellent analysis. Also, at least in the USA, accusations of racism play on deep-seated guilt that serves to control people, especially the wealthy, well-educated liberal isolated from the poverty violence, and lifestyle of black barrios.

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Purple Flower
9/7/2020 11:33:37 am

Thomas Jefferson has more to worry about these days than being called an atheist. Even some of his descendants want his statues toppled. Thomas Jefferson is now being vilified because he, like many gentlemen of his day, once had slaves. Due to the fact that he owned slaves, nothing Thomas Jefferson has done throughout is life has any merit or value now. And anybody who opposes the vandalism of the statues or memorials of historical figures who helped build America into what it is today, is accused of being a racist.

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Purple Flower
9/7/2020 11:51:19 am

Trump and the Mayor of New York City personify exactly what is described in the penultimate paragraph of this article. Their squabble today is actually quite funny, but it is a living example of that paragraph.

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Howie
11/7/2020 06:41:53 am

Olivia...Sorry for the deviation from topic but what happened to your excellent penultimate article that carried with it the ability to change the world? My penultimate post urged you to expand upon your abilities and give vision to great, cultivated women like Maria and Elizabeth. I would write the book myself but I lack the "necessities" and thus would feel phony and fraudulent, an imposter in a world of femininity.

By the way, there is a great movie (1983) that covers your theme of cultivation called "Educating Rita", with Michael Caine and Rita Walters, whereas Michael, an English literature professor, plays mentor to a working-class gal who wants to overcome her intellectually oppressive environment. Filmed in 1983, the movie was a great success that revived Michael's career.

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Olivia
11/7/2020 06:49:14 pm

I’ve seen that film about 12 times... “Wouldn’t you just die without Mahler."

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Howie
12/7/2020 04:55:30 am

You must have been a diaper girl when the movie hit the screens in 1983. Again, we see the power of film to transform, the movie permanently imprinted in my memory. Even more, Michael Caine is a sterling example of a cultivated individual coming from humble beginnings, a war veteran in Korea, and finally a cinema star and favorite.




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