....and anyone who disagrees with me is a racist

Those who truly abhor racism and prejudice need to stop and examine the theory and mechanism that works against these horrible tendencies in our society.

This means truly defining what prejudice is, understanding what philospophical moral theories have been most successful in reducing racism and prejudice in society and examining our history too see how totalitarian states have been toppled or how equal rights have actually been improved.

The knee jerk reaction of countering prejudice with more predjudice which is seen in the philosophically unsound current ideologies that will brand anyone a racist that disagrees with your knee jerk reaction, is in itself, the fuel that drives predjudice in our society today.

The circle of the extreme right and extreme left in terms of identity politics actually meet in the same place, and it's a place where the wielding of absolute power against the individual is the core of the dogma that drives their collective mission. 

Part of this mission has been a redefining of what racism is. It's a definition that will cast a doubt on my ability to define racism, not based upon checking if my definition is correct, but by casting doubt on me personally because their ideological identity politic would define me as white (even though my mother is half Indian and was born in Calcutta)

These ideologies have their roots in Marxist and post modernist ideas. I am very interested in both these philosophies and can list the merits in both. But as with many philosophies, there are great faults in their structure. These faults are not understood by those who now propound these beliefs and there for me lies the problem.

And these faults are exposed by cognitive science, evolutionary psychology and the English and American philosphical traditions of logic and academic rigour. But individuals from these areas who have raised criticism have been branded by the ideological left as racists and in many ways had their ideas challenged not by countering their arguments, but by the attempted besmirchment of their character or the character of their audience.

This dogmatic, ideological approach is spreading through our society and these ideas are being wired into our institutions as we speak. Anyone who has been asked to tick a box defining their race has come up against this, even though this is obviously a racist act. But we live in the world where calling out this racism could get you branded a racist.

So at this point, I would like to say I agree with the motivations of the ideological left, I am not a racist but I have real problems with their philosophy, to the point where I find this ideology racist and it is within those terms that I disagree with their ideas.

Of course I am using their methods of besmirchment against them, but again, this exposes the problems in that ideological position.

If you study your history one of the things that beat racism was THE TRUTH. ('but what is truth?' I hear the post modernists counter...go away please) 

The races in terms of their abilities, morality, talents and intelligence are equal. Science proves this unequivocably. Inconsequential genetic differences like skin colour do not create any real difference between races. Only through a respect for truth can this fact have any power in a society. And the truth is that the races are a social construct in themselves (the ideological left love social constructs)

Is anyone out there who is asking 'what is truth?' really want to disagree with this? The ideological left have to agree with these points, even though the post modern theory their whole ideology rests on would have to question the veracity of this truth.

So I will state these facts again (post modernists hate facts, as do politicians)

The races do not actually exist. Therefore any attribute given to any race does not exist. There is only one race; human beings and their abilities are equally spread and do not correlate to any imagined racial group.

Yes...the races do not really exist. Races were created by those in power to retain power. Racism has been successfully countered by those groups who identified with a race and then argued they are same as the other races. Think about that and then ask yourself if a statement like Black Lives Matter is rooted in those philosophical terms?

The fact that a power structure has defined a group with an identity will not be beaten by identity politics. But there is something far more sinister at work here and this is the reason for this post.

Much as I would like to try and define racism, show how liberal philosophy came up with the real arguments that in the end demolished the slave trade worldwide and show why the civil rights movements of the sixties worked, and then show how elements of the ideological left identity politics actually run against these because they are essentially racist in their ideology, but I think anyone reading this will begin to see the faults in this dogma anyway by looking at it from another angle. 

But let's for a minute forget all this and turn our focus on a Russian military man, turned theater director, turned political aide to Putin...Vladislav Surkov....

Surkov came up with a political approach called Sovereign Democracy. This is an approach that creates confusion, distraction, obsfucation in your electorate whilst giving them enough of a standard of living to shut up and put up. It is what has given Putin the illusion of a democratic mandate for so many years. And it's a method that seems to be getting more and more popular across the rest of globe.

Surkov's ideas could well be rooted in his time as a theater director, where the world is your stage and you pull the strings of the characters and political movements of your creation. Surkov advocated the financing of neo Nazi groups and Marxist groups in his country. By creating that division within the electorate a perceived, fake vacuum emerges that get's filled by a disguised totalitarian force.

From wikipedia...

In 2013, Surkov was characterized by The Economist as the engineer of "a system of make-believe", "a land of imitation political parties, stage-managed media and fake social movements".
In Western media outside Russia, a vocal and eloquent critic of Surkov and of the administration of Vladamir Putin in general has been Peter Pomerantsev. Pomerantsev has written op-eds in The Atlantic, The New York Times and the The London review accusing Surkov, "Putin's chief ideologue" with "unsurpassed influence over Russian politics", of turning Russia into a "managed democracy", and of reducing Russion politics to nothing but "post modernist theatre". In a talk before the Legatum Institute Pomerantsev, along with Pavel Khodorkovsky, termed Russia a "postmodern dictatorship".

Look at Trump in the US and Prime Minister Boris Cummings in the UK and ask yourself if we are now moving towards a 'managed democracy' within a 'post modern dictatorship'?

The 'stage managed media and fake social movements' could well be driving the current movements in the US and UK. 

It's obvious that the BLM protestors trying to tear down the structure and the teenage gunslingers trying to take out the protestors could just be a very lucky occurence for Trump and his supporters. Or it could all be very well stage managed. 

We just don't know do we?

Through out the eighties and nineties the West blamed Colonel Gaddafi for various terrorist attrocities when they knew all along Syria was to blame. When the Arab spring happened the west supported those protestors who went onto the streets to argue against the dictatorships they were living under. Here we had a truly democratic movement that was without ideology or a leader, organised through Twitter and Facebook that managed to topple these totalitarian states. But the vacuum created by this movement was filled by even more dictatorial and ideoligical power elites and ended up with the West and Russia supporting Assad as he bombed the people of Syria out of existence.

Now with this in mind, think about Trump, BLM and the woke movement....is all of this a clever retelling of events to try and maintain a far right elite in the US? Is Trump really being hurt by the protests of the ideological left? Seriously...is this movement really doing what it says it's doing?

Our political world is changing. The billionaire elites are growing stronger and stronger. The unquestioned countenance of the ideological left in our culture is matched only by the unassailable right wing in our political domain. Are these two things linked?

So going to the start of my post, you will not beat predjudice with more predjudice. Questioning the ideas behind identity politics does not make you a racist. especially if the divisions created by identity politics are serving a hidden political agenda that I have hinted at above.

So let me reiterate. The bounds required to identify a group are not only arbitary but also fake. Everyone has the right to identify with a group but applying any attribute to that group is essentially prejudiced. defining another individual as part of another group and defining that group with attributes is also prejudiced. 

This is how racism started in the first place. Arguing that it is redistribution of power is a move backwards towards tribalism. And again, racism is rooted in tribalism.

The power dynamics that defined these racial groups and the feeling that people have to identify with those groups is very real and is again a product of racism. Nobody is born believing they are black or white, this is put on us all. Yes we do end up identifying as racial groups (and even then, how many individuals feel stuck between two arbitary divisions all of their life) but the way to beat this is by promoting how we are the same not different. 

These divisions are fake. Do not let anyone use your justified abhorrence of prejudice and division to back you into a defensive corner. Remember Martin Luther King and Gandhi. They were right.

And this means promoting equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes. 

'I don't want nobody

To give me nothing
Open up the door
I'll get it myself…' James Brown

And if you find some of the ideas inherent in the ideological left a bit...well...prejudiced, uniformed and dogmatic, this does not make you a racist. Anyone who says you are is simply a twat.

A lot of the ideas in this post came from the documentary HYPE- NORMALISATION