Racial hatred (and the stoking and cultivation thereof) is a massive business and revenue stream in America.
As we all know, the MSM treats the latest possible white-cop-on-black-victim incident like a movie studio treats a summer blockbuster: wall-to-wall coverage, flashing lights and colors, everyone dedicated to the same task of pouring as much gasoline as possible onto a social fire. (And any inconvenient facts or context ignored or buried.)
Of course politicians exist to make their voters addled with so much hatred and fear of the Other over there, with the goal being a malleable gullible populace that gladly gives up its liberty for a spurious safety (but is really just a desire to punch the other team on the nose).
And then more recently, academia has whole enormous bureaucracies dedicated to dividing us all by skin color and attaching moral value based on our official Oppressor/Oppressed points total. (Academia being Patient Zero of our perpetually occurring Race War, the heart of the White Guilt Industrial Complex, constantly pumping out 10,000 theories that all say the same thing: Everything is Oppression, which can only be cured by unlimited Leftist social engineering.)
And lastly, there is an entire cottage industry of websites, blogs, brands, Tweeters, journalists etc that have their customers hooked on the Race War just like a dealer gets his customer hooked on crack: for the Left, they pay to be fed constant tales of the evil bigotry of their blood enemies, the Deplorables, with reminders that they are the Good ones because they know to always "center the marginalized" and never forget to capitalize Black; for the right, they pay to be fed constant tales of black dysfunction and criminality, with reminders that they are the Good ones because they raise patriotic law-abiding children.
We like to believe that Love Conquers All (Love Wins!) but the truth is that no one can really love a stranger (except as an abstraction) but you can easily and happily hate one (or millions). Hate gets the blood flowing and makes us jump out of bed in the morning ready for another day fighting the imaginary enemy—we all love to hate and our corporate hate dealers are more than happy to have us hooked, demanding larger and larger doses.
And hey, in the worst-case scenario, if some kind of race war breaks out, think of how good that will be for business!
Yes, but the hate is a mile wide and an inch deep and is self-correcting. Look at the polling of historical Dem constituencies running to the right. The more important question is what will the right do with their likely electoral victory in '22 and '24? This is also self-correcting btw!
I agree with almost everything you are saying, but there are people who don't love to hate - and I do hope that there are many of them, though they are much less loud and visible than the hateful ones...
Racial hatred (and the stoking and cultivation thereof) is a massive business and revenue stream in America.
As we all know, the MSM treats the latest possible white-cop-on-black-victim incident like a movie studio treats a summer blockbuster: wall-to-wall coverage, flashing lights and colors, everyone dedicated to the same task of pouring as much gasoline as possible onto a social fire. (And any inconvenient facts or context ignored or buried.)
Of course politicians exist to make their voters addled with so much hatred and fear of the Other over there, with the goal being a malleable gullible populace that gladly gives up its liberty for a spurious safety (but is really just a desire to punch the other team on the nose).
And then more recently, academia has whole enormous bureaucracies dedicated to dividing us all by skin color and attaching moral value based on our official Oppressor/Oppressed points total. (Academia being Patient Zero of our perpetually occurring Race War, the heart of the White Guilt Industrial Complex, constantly pumping out 10,000 theories that all say the same thing: Everything is Oppression, which can only be cured by unlimited Leftist social engineering.)
And lastly, there is an entire cottage industry of websites, blogs, brands, Tweeters, journalists etc that have their customers hooked on the Race War just like a dealer gets his customer hooked on crack: for the Left, they pay to be fed constant tales of the evil bigotry of their blood enemies, the Deplorables, with reminders that they are the Good ones because they know to always "center the marginalized" and never forget to capitalize Black; for the right, they pay to be fed constant tales of black dysfunction and criminality, with reminders that they are the Good ones because they raise patriotic law-abiding children.
We like to believe that Love Conquers All (Love Wins!) but the truth is that no one can really love a stranger (except as an abstraction) but you can easily and happily hate one (or millions). Hate gets the blood flowing and makes us jump out of bed in the morning ready for another day fighting the imaginary enemy—we all love to hate and our corporate hate dealers are more than happy to have us hooked, demanding larger and larger doses.
And hey, in the worst-case scenario, if some kind of race war breaks out, think of how good that will be for business!
Yes, but the hate is a mile wide and an inch deep and is self-correcting. Look at the polling of historical Dem constituencies running to the right. The more important question is what will the right do with their likely electoral victory in '22 and '24? This is also self-correcting btw!
Like it’s all really just a fad? I have that sense…Americans love fads!
We’ll said, also worth plugging Taibbi’s “Hate, Inc.” here as the manual in how this particular sausage is made.
yes, that is essential reading fer sure
I agree with almost everything you are saying, but there are people who don't love to hate - and I do hope that there are many of them, though they are much less loud and visible than the hateful ones...