Let Me Count The Ways...

Or... Everyone who doesn't agree with me is literally H*****r!

As I read this article describing how "Moms For Liberty" has grown into a significant political force in just three years, I found myself tickled by this line:

...they’re bankrolled by "big checks from the evils of white supremacy."

It prompted me to recall Biden's recent assertion that,

White supremacy... is the single most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland.

He was referring to resistance to the "justice" agenda, aka the relentless drive to "woke," which includes Critical Race Theory, Gender Theory, "equity," race essentialism, and a bunch of other progressivisms.

To complete the trifecta, ponder this bit from Time, last year, "The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise." Just so you don't think it's a one-off, here's another bit, "The Surprising Link Between Fitness and Racism," and one more from everyone's favorite lunatic asylum, MSNBC: "Pandemic fitness trends have gone extreme — literally."

The last one tosses "hypermasculinity" into the far-right/white supremacist/neo-Nazi basket.

The wild-eyed panic over “white supremacy” (WS) isn't new. The OG-Woke Atlantic raised the specter years ago, and of course they put Trump in the middle of it. WS-mongering has taken a few years to find its footing, but it's now coming into its own.

This is a natural evolution of the Left's "everyone who doesn't agree with me is a racist" schtick. Since the racism under every rock bogeyman is losing its effectiveness (the Left reimagines most of its buzz phrases with predictable regularity for that reason), a new panic needs to be stoked.

See, "racism" is now cliche. It's boring. It's a claim about individuals disliking others based on the color of their skin (and, of course, a classic example of projection - our most overt racists walkthe hallowed halls of the Left), and it distilled down to "you don't even know you're racist, but you are" finger-pointing.

Thing is, a subconscious racist isn't much of a threat in normal daily life.

A white supremacist, on the other hand...

White supremacy is a coercive ideology. It's not about individual attitudes, but rather bending society as a whole to a separatist or structurally racist (i.e. Jim Crow) outcome. Nonsense about "preserving privilege" aside, it's also only the purview of a rather small population of fringe assholes, who are widely and properly shunned by the rest of us, including the mainstream Right.

But, reality doesn't matter when it comes to fear-mongering in furtherance of an agenda. Fear sells, even if it's fabricated. But, it sells only to the core audience (Anheuser-Busch recently got a lesson about core audiences), with the rest of us feeling safer and safer in openly mocking their attempts at incitement.

The more ridiculous a claim, the fewer who'll buy and repeat it. The "everything on the Right is white supremacist" will backfire as loudly as the Dylan Mulvaney bit. “When everything is racist, nothing is” applies to WS. Diluting the phrase to meaninglessness may work to keep avowed lefties feeling good about their superiority, but it turns the rest of us off.

As for Moms For Liberty, the notion that parents should have first say in their children's education and upbringing may be quaint (or dyspepsia-inducing) in Best-and-Brightest circles, but it's in our DNA, which means it will never be scrubbed away.

I say “good.” Government has proven to be absolutely awful at this task, and a restoration of responsibility is long overdue.