The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 47
Systemic racism is said by Critical Race Theorists “ordinary, not aberrational—’normal science,’ the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country.” As such, virtually everything is systemically racist, from schools to the SAT to businesses to every policy they can think of to teachers to hobbies like walking, hiking, and being outside to books to birds, fish, and even rocks. Everything is systemically racist. Except one thing, we have now learned: vaccine passports. Despite the fact that vaccine passports, if implemented, will meet the Critical Race Theory definition of racist policy (which Ibram Kendi says is abominable and should be unconstitutional), this fact is not being trumpeted by Critical Race Theorists anywhere. In fact, those who have spoken publicly on the issue, like Nikole Hannah-Jones, have applauded the vax passes. Not only that, but Twitter is locking people out of their accounts and suspending people for sharing satirical memes pointing this fact out. Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast for a short discussion of this phenomenon and what it means. (Nota bene: It has come to our attention since the recording of this episode that the eviction moratorium is also strongly systemically racist by the Critical Race Theory definition and yet supported by the Leftist Regime, so there are at least two things that are not, in fact, systemically racist. Three if you count the destruction of black and Latino neighborhoods and black- and Latino-owned small businesses in the wake of the so-called “Black Lives Matter” riots of 2020. Official word is that there is no pattern whatsoever to the strange exemptions from the list of what is systemically racist.)
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But James, that’s what CRT is all about. I learnt that by listening to you and I believe you. CRT tells us that racism is everywhere which means that systemic racism must also be everywhere. If anyone is in any doubt about this because they think they’ve found something that is devoid of all racism, CRT explains that they need only keep looking for the evidence. It’s sure to be found, and even if it is only present in an eenzy-weenzy trace amount, that is enough to tell that racism is abundant.
I myself experienced the “disparate outcomes” result of identifying vaccinated and unvaccinated persons at Children’s Hosptial Los Angeles (CHLA), where our young disabled son was recently hospitalized. My ID badge had a large red tape strapped across it, indicating that I was not vaccinated.
I am of Irish/French roots. I saw no other identifiably white/caucasian persons wearing a badge with red tape. Though I wasn’t conducting any kind of scientific study, the only other red-taped badges I saw were worn by Hispanic persons. I spoke with one mom, about our children who were hospitalized (not a vaccine-related conversation). She spoke only Spanish (I am fluent in several languages). It would be a simple task of interviewing persons with red-taped badges to discern whether the new ID badges policy at CHLA segregates persons according to ethnicity.
This is brilliant. I hope it works!