Anti-racism
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Anti-racism is the Marxist and Leftist ideology of opposition to “racism.” According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term “racist” was coined by Leon Davidovich Bronstein (Leon Trotsky) (references needed, put links to sites documenting this). Deracination ideology is a major focus of Cultural Marxism.
Thomas Jackson defined "racism" as "...any opposition by whites to official policies of racial preference for non-whites. It is any preference by whites for their own people and culture. It is any resistance by whites to the idea of becoming a minority people. It is any unwillingness to be pushed aside. It is, in short, any of the normal aspirations of people-hood that have defined nations since the beginning of history - but only so long as the aspirations are those of whites." in an article in American Renaissance, Vol. 2, No. 8
A dangerous form of anti-racism is criminalization of hate speech (now being enforced in many white countries), which puts a legal taboo on any discussion and criticism versus official marxist idealogy.
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[edit] Arguments of anti-racism
[edit] More difference within groups than between
The geneticist Richard Lewontin measured the variation within races and populations and between races, with the result that 85% of the variation between individuals occured within the same race, and only 15% between races. The argument is that this shows that racial differences are insignifigant. A flaw in this argument is that this statistic refers to an average of variation over several factors; individual genetic loci show more variation; and a 2003 paper criticized this conclusion. For example, the variation in genes for skin colour do not follow that pattern. Also, even if in individual factors like intelligence there is signifigant overlap of the distributions, the effect at the extremes (very intelligent and very stupid) is maginified, with great effect on the nature of society. See the Race and intelligence article for more information.
[edit] Synechdoche of skin colour
The assertion is sometimes made that those who believe in racism are merely desiring to discriminate between people on the basis of skin colour. Those making this claim realise that there is more difference than merely skin colour, but use this argument both to trivialise the differences between races and also as a proxy for claiming that differences between races are only cosmetic.
[edit] Clines, populations, and social constructs
Some theorists have suggested that the concept of "race" should be replaced by the idea of a cline. A cline refers to a gradual shift in a characteristic over a geographical area. The argument is that because, looking at some factors, populations cannot be clearly divided into distinct groups, that the concept of a race as a method for dividing the human species cannot be used. The counter-argument is that just because in some cases variation is not clear-cut, does not mean that this variation is not important, or even that it does not exist.
A related concept is race as a social construct. This defines race as an arbitary invention of human societies, a cultural distinction defining who is part of the race and who isn't. Although the way that people are viewed, depending on their hereditary characteristics, is an important part of the functioning of society, that does not mean that the basis for such a distinction is purely cultural, and does not reflect a genetic reality. Although the definition of a race can change with time, and although it may have fringes and gradations, there are still significant hereditary differences between different groups of people.
[edit] Also see
[edit] External links
- Anti-racism By Jim Kalb
- The Origins of "Racism" by Samuel Francis
- Multiculturalism and Marxism by Frank Ellis
- The Origins of Political Correctness Bill Lind
Categories: Marxism | Ideology | Culture | Degeneracy | Cultural Marxism | Stubs | Race
