As IF Times

source:  https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-from-teen-vogue-sleep-is-systemically-racist?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

Of all the things you could accuse a person of being in modern times, a racist has somehow taken the top spot.  Not sure how that happened.  If you consider the admonishments of the classic ten commandments of human behavior widely accepted in the western world as being the standard, racism doesn’t make an appearance, even as an addendum.

So in our present day society, being a racist is a charge far more severe than to be labelled a murderer, a thief, a liar, an adulterer, a greedy person, a lazy person or a covetous one. That’s not to say that being racist is less reprehensible, but it just doesn’t rank up there with the classics.  I might add that being a lawyer also merits a place in the list of reprehensibles, but that has yet to make it into popular discourse.

Unlike the classic reprehensible behaviors however, the accusation of racism is quite vague and especially in today’s partisan environment, quite suspect.  An accusation doesn’t require any real evidence and thus anything can be construed as a racist event.  This is quite convenient for accusers since there is no need to produce a body as in a murder accusation or stolen goods as in accusations of theft.  Virtually any act or perceived micro-aggression can be instances of racism as long as the accuser is not white.  Satire merges with reality as every possible human activity can express a racist bent including hard work, saving money, or mowing lawns.

The most recent conscript into this whirlpool of racist activity is sleeping.  The “argument” is that depriving blacks of sleep versus their white counterparts actually shortens the lives of blacks and is therefore systemically oppressive.  If we accept this argument as rational, the logical thing would be to find some ways to even out the sleep imbalances.  Of course in today’s environment, that’s preposterous.  The only way to fix this vile racist activity is through financial reparations.  This balm is like duct tape, it fixes everything.  There’s no social wrong that’s so terrible that a check or cash equivalent can’t fix.

The label of racism is still abhorrent to many and most would push back to deny such accusations.  The question is why.  The accusation has no real bite since it’s been so watered down over the decades.  It’s as if you called someone a jughead.  Meh.  When the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson made racism into a lucrative industry of extortion, they created a template for future generations of effective emulators.  Affirmative action is ironically the most racist policy to result from decades of racism bleats. We have people such as the illiterate babbling Maxine Waters who built an entire lengthy career based on nothing more than leveling charges of racism at anyone who is dumb enough to pay attention. We have political candidates with no useful skills who run solely on the message of racism as if bringing duct tape to fix an imaginary leak.   These opportunists never reveal that, next to African dictators, American blacks are the most prosperous in the world populating the top echelons of business, sports and media.  If that’s evidence of racism, it explains the hordes trying to get into the US illegally vying to get their share of discrimination.

For decades, the struggle was for ‘equality’ and exhortations of humanity above all.  That quaint message has morphed into the message that all whites are naturally racist, everything they do is racist; their society, their institutions, their churches, their food, their sports, their manner of dress, their education, their hair, their music and of course, the aforementioned sleep regimens.  It’s not about equality anymore, it’s about superiority.

Accusations of racism no longer have any basis in validity.  Even for the most bleeding heart liberals, the ever expanding list of ‘racist’ behavior has become Monty Python-esque. There are those who are finally realizing that this is no longer an black/white issue; it’s all about the green.

Source: Erica Thomas: Black Georgia lawmaker says she was “verbally attacked” by man who told her to “go back where you came from” – CBS News

Well it’s now the dog days of summer and in the entertainment business, that means re-runs until new programs in the fall.  In some cases, they’ll put on programming that looks similar to entertainment previously run, but a few details are changed to confer originality.

Erica Thomas is the latest installment of  “The Racist Show”, a program which appears to have unlimited longevity.  It’s a bit cheeky since the previous episode in this series has not even finished playing.  The Jussie Smollet episode is still running through the court system, so Thomas is shamelessly trying to steal his limelight.  The plotline is hardly original: A tearful protagonist publicly reveals hurtful actions perpetrated against them by racist antagonists.  Fast forward to the actual facts as the story attracts scrutiny and whaddya know, it’s all fabricated.  There turns out to be no real attack and in fact, the accuser is the perp.

Just as it’s quizzical to see not one, not two but FOUR remakes of A Star Is Born,  the remakes of The Racist Show has played almost non stop for decades.  Some may recall one of the first episodes, the Tawana Brawley one which arguably started the franchise.   That’s the one where a group of white student lacrosse team members, were accused of assaulting her.  Her supporting cast of the likes of Al Sharpton gained stardom from that episode and went on to a successful career  in his own spin-off series, The Race Extorter.

The Racist Show has no shortage of episodes and will likely continue to run well into the future.  Occasionally, the higher profile ones will make it to the public’s attention, but there are numerous other ones that are less widely known.  Campuses are a hotbed for these episodes.  Maybe one day, the public will tire of the same melodrama, but I wouldn’t count on it.  If Star Trek 9, Rocky 14 or Fast and Furious 7 are any indication, we can expect to see endless episodes of The Racist Show.