Ann Coulter Horrifies Me Once Again: It’s Not That Surprising
It’s not that surprising to me when Ann Coulter drops another ridiculous bombshell, and this latest one reveals some extremely appalling racist tendencies. The concocting of the line that the proper response to September 11th was to forcibly Christianize — please count me out in the next Crusades — the Middle East was bad enough, but she unfortunately didn’t stop there.
To quote her:
In 1960, whites were 90 percent of the country. The Census Bureau recently estimated that whites already account for less than two-thirds of the population and will be a minority by 2050. Other estimates put that day much sooner.
One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been. If this sort of drastic change were legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide. Yet whites are called racists merely for mentioning the fact that current immigration law is intentionally designed to reduce their percentage in the population
I have to wonder what American reality — past or present — that Coulter is familiar with, when I read a statement like “One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been.”
Has she forgotten about a not so insignificant phenomenon called slavery? And the subsequent horrors of Jim Crow or the present day mass incarceration of black males via The War on People Who Use Some Drugs. It’s true that the last example has included the enforcement of heinous drug laws by minority police officers, but the notion that the white establishment has been remotely compassionate is still entirely ahistorical. And no, any historical reformist measure like the reduction in daily slave beatings from 4 to 2 wouldn’t make up for the preservation of the institution itself.
She also compares the phenomenon of one racial group peacefully overtaking another in numbers with the very horrific phenomenon of genocide. I suspect that the rising numbers in minority populations has to do with higher birth rates and migration patterns — leaving aside the question of how genuinely voluntary a given individuals choice to migrate may be. This is a far cry from the mass deportation or targeted mass murder of white individuals that would merit the use of a word like genocide. If the amnesty policy constitutes genocide, then, I’ll have to conclude that there is such a thing as a good genocide.
In the end, what is most striking about Coulter’s column is that it reveals the silly tribalism that dominates her perspective on racial issues. Why should it matter, if minority individuals are becoming more numerous than white ones? I wouldn’t be troubled if I were the only white skinned individual left in my community. I am out to seek friendship and joy with people based on their individual character. The color of their skin has absolutely no importance to me. I urge that others try to think of human beings as individuals, rather than as stereotypes or caricatures of a given ethnic or racial group.
Also, let me give a thumbs up to Arthur Silber, for alerting me to this Coulter piece in a very passionate essay he wrote. It earned a spot on my insightful reads section 
Note: In a society dominated by violent racial tribalism, it may be wise to look upon one racial or ethnic group overtaking another as increasing physical danger or the likelihood of conflict, but this would just be a tragic necessity for physical survival. It doesn’t mean that the principle of racial tribalism is worthwhile.
Natasha | Immigration, LeftLibertarian.org, Racial Issues
It’s certainly possible that people like Ann Coulter and Bill
O’Reilly (two of my least favorite conservatives) do believe there is
a “white male power structure” who are the “overlords” of the United
States, or something to that effect. That doesn’t necessarily make it
true, at least not in the way much of the left would *like* to see
it. I definitely do not consider Coulter and O’Reilly to be paragons of
clear perception!
I think a much more accurate way to describe the situation is to say
that while the people who wield political power in the United States
are disproportionately male and caucasian (perhaps 60% to 90% in each
category, to take a very rough guess), being of European ancestry or
having XY chromosomes are not the defining characteristics of this
power base.
I think the defining characteristics of the power base have much
more to do with certain shared assumptions about the way society
ought to be run — perhaps first and foremost, seeing government as a
kind of parent, and the people under its control as children to be
supervised and taken care of (for their own good), and/or punished
(for the good of others).
The facts of race and gender do not appear to contribute much to the
nature of this situation, since one can see these same paternalistic,
statist biases at work in lots of other ruling classes around the
world, and if anything women seem (at least in this country) no less
statist and paternalistic than men in their average political outlooks.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
Shortly after my previous reply to Venus, I came across the
following commentary by Thomas Sowell which seemed to fit the
conversation. I agree with those who say that Sowell is a conservative and not
a libertarian, and he has often written things I disagree with, but I
think he makes some excellent points here.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
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“The achievements of western civilization are buried in histories
that portray every human sin found here as if they were peculiarities
of the west.
“The classic example is slavery, which existed all over the world for
thousands of years and yet is incessantly depicted as if it was a
peculiarity of Europeans enslaving Africans. Barbary pirates alone
brought twice as many enslaved Europeans to North Africa as there
were Africans brought in bondage to the United States and the
American colonies from which it was formed.
“How many schools and colleges are going to teach that, going against
political correctness and undermining white guilt?
“How many people have any inkling that it was precisely western
civilization which eventually turned against slavery and began
stamping it out when non-western societies still saw nothing wrong
with it?
“How can a generation be expected to fight for the survival of a
culture or a civilization that has been trashed in its own
institutions, taught to tolerate even the intolerance of other
cultures brought into its own midst, and conditioned to regard any
instinct to fight for its own survival as being a ‘cowboy’?”
-Thomas Sowell, The Washington Times (National Weekly Edition),
Nov. 20, 2006 (p. 32)
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