This is interesting, considering the NY Times built their current office building by getting the property development company to get the government to use eminent domain to take away property from People Of Color
Via @NYTimes:
"Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out."
India, Nazi Germany, United Stateshttps://t.co/Ez0IUPg8Jf
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) July 1, 2020
Right, right, they’ve never heard of things in old Egypt, the Roman Empire, etc and so on. I’m sure you can think of more, because you aren’t a Progressive wackadoodle. But, this is really about hating on America. Seriously, this seems to be what Democrats are going to run on: how horrible and bad America is. Here we go
A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups on the basis of ancestry and often immutable traits, traits that would be neutral in the abstract but are ascribed life-and-death meaning in a hierarchy favoring the dominant caste, whose forebears designed it. A caste system uses rigid, often arbitrary boundaries to keep the ranks apart, distinct from one another and in their assigned places.
Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out. The lingering, millenniums-long caste system of India. The tragically accelerated, chilling and officially vanquished caste system of Nazi Germany. And the shape-shifting, unspoken, race-based caste pyramid in the United States. Each version relied on stigmatizing those deemed inferior to justify the dehumanization necessary to keep the lowest-ranked people at the bottom and to rationalize the protocols of enforcement. A caste system endures because it is often justified as divine will, originating from sacred text or the presumed laws of nature, reinforced throughout the culture and passed down through the generations.
There was a lot of denigrating of America prior to getting to the above. And you know the NY Times author Isabel Wilkerson (who’s part of the crazy 1619 crew), and the editors who allowed this, were thrilled to put America in the same boat as Nazi Germany (BTW, by the Times’ own standards, this would be racist towards India). The more interesting thing here is that most of this caste stuff happens in cities, counties, and states run by Democrat. Where are blacks and other “People of Color” held down the most? Democrat run areas.
BTW, if this were Nazi Germany, the Times would be shut down. And it was India that banned multiple blogs (including mine) and news outlets for various reasons.
