Thank you for having that interview, John. Brave of you to enter the lions den and engage with someone who may or may not have had an honest desire to debate the question fairly. The comment section was adamantly engaging in implicit bias...against you. Most of commenters didn't really hear anything you said. I watched both videos, and I'm glad you posted the entire context of the comments Joe Rogan made. One thing to keep in mind is that Joe was "high as f...k" during the experience he was describing. The fact that he realized he had made a racist-sounding comment while under the heavy influence of whatever he was high on tells me he isn't "implicitly racist".
Leftists and blacks who want to keep racism alive is the reason there is racial conflict, what little there is that isn't purposefully created, alive in America. Far left progressives will not be satisfied until reverse racism is fully established and white people are the objects of overt discrimination. Not at all because they have any real love or appreciation for black people - far left progressives are more racist than any KKK member who ever existed, and they are oppressing our black population aggressively. I'm sorry more black people don't see that.
The biggest problem with "implicit bias" as described by the Left is that it is dependent on the racist presupposition that simply because of the color of your skin, you somehow will see people of other skin colors as inferior. This is an absurd premise and fundamentally racist at its core and should be rejected outright by any rational, reasonable person.
As the author correctly points out, intent should be the focus of discussing the actual presence (or lack) of racism, context *must* matter, this is a fundamental rule of reality. [The Left's ongoing denial of reality in every arena is what truly drives their own racism and other areas of culture and politics where they destroy everything they touch.]
When I was young back in the 70s and 80s, almost every white person I knew was very sympathetic to the problems of black people. They weren't all actively campaigning for equal rights, but they were on the side of equal rights. I'm not saying there were no racists in the country. But I can only think of one that I ever met. They were either very few, at least in my part of the country, or they kept their opinions to themselves.
But I've seen in just the last 10 years or so a radical change. More and more white people that I know are saying that they are sick and tired of being called racists and that it doesn't matter what they do, they will be called racist. They're getting fed up with it. Their sympathy for the problems of black people is draining away when they get blamed for it despite the fact that they had nothing to do with it.
That is my reaction. Because race hustling is a grift designed to sucker not terribly bright but guilt ridden, gullible people into giving the claimed victims some sort of restitution, I now reject any efforts in that direction. Like John observed, when does it do any good to apologize to the woke mob? They want the outrage, not reconciliation. Also, I've observed many people, esp conservatives, are now saying wait a minute- colorblind is fair, but looking at everything through this racial lens or filter is counter productive and unfair. It doesn't seem to matter that BHO was elected twice, and that he had to garner large numbers of white people's votes to win. To pretend that America has made no progress on race is just dishonest. But pushing people into a corner, attacking their livelihoods, will produce a backlash, guaranteed. Jason Whitlock does a fantastic job explaining exactly what's going on, and it's reassuring, to hear there are black people discussing racial issues with objectivity and honesty, not just blame with demands that white people pay for the sins of people long past. No one has owned slaves in America for over 150 years, and the southern Democrat Jim Crow laws were struck down in the 1960's. The alphabet mob drives most of the push for revolution, and they do not have America's best interests at heart. When we have a party in power that insists that "every problem we have is aggravated by white racism," how do you have a rational debate?
It takes more than human strength to forgive someone who has offended you, either accidentally or purposely. This is supremely evident in the life of Jesus Christ. The love that Jesus showed needs to be taught in all communities.
Thank you for having that interview, John. Brave of you to enter the lions den and engage with someone who may or may not have had an honest desire to debate the question fairly. The comment section was adamantly engaging in implicit bias...against you. Most of commenters didn't really hear anything you said. I watched both videos, and I'm glad you posted the entire context of the comments Joe Rogan made. One thing to keep in mind is that Joe was "high as f...k" during the experience he was describing. The fact that he realized he had made a racist-sounding comment while under the heavy influence of whatever he was high on tells me he isn't "implicitly racist".
Leftists and blacks who want to keep racism alive is the reason there is racial conflict, what little there is that isn't purposefully created, alive in America. Far left progressives will not be satisfied until reverse racism is fully established and white people are the objects of overt discrimination. Not at all because they have any real love or appreciation for black people - far left progressives are more racist than any KKK member who ever existed, and they are oppressing our black population aggressively. I'm sorry more black people don't see that.
The biggest problem with "implicit bias" as described by the Left is that it is dependent on the racist presupposition that simply because of the color of your skin, you somehow will see people of other skin colors as inferior. This is an absurd premise and fundamentally racist at its core and should be rejected outright by any rational, reasonable person.
As the author correctly points out, intent should be the focus of discussing the actual presence (or lack) of racism, context *must* matter, this is a fundamental rule of reality. [The Left's ongoing denial of reality in every arena is what truly drives their own racism and other areas of culture and politics where they destroy everything they touch.]
It's wrong to make broad generalizations about people based solely on the color of their skin -- like all white people do. Or something.
When I was young back in the 70s and 80s, almost every white person I knew was very sympathetic to the problems of black people. They weren't all actively campaigning for equal rights, but they were on the side of equal rights. I'm not saying there were no racists in the country. But I can only think of one that I ever met. They were either very few, at least in my part of the country, or they kept their opinions to themselves.
But I've seen in just the last 10 years or so a radical change. More and more white people that I know are saying that they are sick and tired of being called racists and that it doesn't matter what they do, they will be called racist. They're getting fed up with it. Their sympathy for the problems of black people is draining away when they get blamed for it despite the fact that they had nothing to do with it.
That is my reaction. Because race hustling is a grift designed to sucker not terribly bright but guilt ridden, gullible people into giving the claimed victims some sort of restitution, I now reject any efforts in that direction. Like John observed, when does it do any good to apologize to the woke mob? They want the outrage, not reconciliation. Also, I've observed many people, esp conservatives, are now saying wait a minute- colorblind is fair, but looking at everything through this racial lens or filter is counter productive and unfair. It doesn't seem to matter that BHO was elected twice, and that he had to garner large numbers of white people's votes to win. To pretend that America has made no progress on race is just dishonest. But pushing people into a corner, attacking their livelihoods, will produce a backlash, guaranteed. Jason Whitlock does a fantastic job explaining exactly what's going on, and it's reassuring, to hear there are black people discussing racial issues with objectivity and honesty, not just blame with demands that white people pay for the sins of people long past. No one has owned slaves in America for over 150 years, and the southern Democrat Jim Crow laws were struck down in the 1960's. The alphabet mob drives most of the push for revolution, and they do not have America's best interests at heart. When we have a party in power that insists that "every problem we have is aggravated by white racism," how do you have a rational debate?
It takes more than human strength to forgive someone who has offended you, either accidentally or purposely. This is supremely evident in the life of Jesus Christ. The love that Jesus showed needs to be taught in all communities.