Answering a Fool: Isn’t It Easy to Avoid Being Cancelled If You Don’t Say Anything Racist?

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Salvation in Christ Alone and the Coming Judgment

The message of Christianity is that salvation is found in Christ alone, and any who reject Christ therefore forfeit any hope of salvation, any hope of heaven.

The issue is that humanity is in sin, and the wrath of Almighty God is hanging over our heads.

They will hear His words, they will not act upon them, and when the floods of divine judgment, when the fires of wrath come, they will be consumed, and they will perish. God wrapped Himself in flesh, condescended, and became a man, died on the cross for sin, was resurrected on the third day, has ascended to the right hand of the Father, where He sits now to make intercession for us.

Jesus is saying there is a group of people who will hear His words, they will act upon them, and when the floods of divine judgment come, in that final day, their house will stand.

Introduction to Answering a Fool

Welcome to Bible Bashed, where we aim to equip the saints for the works of ministry by answering the questions you're not allowed to ask. Listen and enjoy this midweek installment of Answering a Fool, as Pastor Tim answers a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

In these shorter episodes, Pastor Tim answers objections from internet trolls in an effort to help them go home and rethink their lives. Troll hunting is hard work, but hey, someone's got to do it. Now, without further ado, here's Pastor Tim.

Why “Just Don’t Say Anything Racist” Fails Under Critical Theory

On this episode of Answer a Fool, we will be answering the question, isn't it easy to avoid being canceled if you don't say anything racist? Now, this is a comment that we received in response to our recent episode on how to become cancel-proof.

And essentially, the genius troll informed us that it's quite easy to avoid being canceled. Just don't say anything racist. It's just as simple as that. Now, the problem with this is this kind of comment or this kind of reaction betrays a remarkable lack of self-awareness.

It betrays a remarkable ignorance about the nature of the claims of critical theory itself. We're now living in the kind of society where every single ethnic or racial interaction is essentially problematized.

And the proponents of CRT are telling us with their words, with their mouth, they are telling us, and we have ears to hear what they're actually saying, that the question is not whether or not racism occurs in any given interaction.

The question is, how does racism manifest itself in every single interaction? So we're moving away from the old definitions of racism, which viewed racism as essentially hostility towards members of different ethnic groups or conscious prejudice towards members of ethnic groups, or a scientific notion of racism where one group of people essentially viewed others as almost subhuman categories of people.

So we're moving away from the old definitions of racism, and now we've moved into these new definitions of racism, where racism essentially is the air we breathe. It is this specter which hangs over every single societal interaction that we come across.

Racism has gone from conscious prejudice against members of a different race to now is being viewed as simply a system of a societal system that's operating almost at an unconscious level. So we talk about racism as unconscious bias towards members of a different race, which essentially props up this system which advantages one group over and against another.

And so in this kind of society, in the society we're living in right now, everything that an individual of a perceived dominant group is going to do is going to be in some sense a manifestation of racism.

Why Every Response Is Treated as Racist

So if you seek to listen to blacks and ask them questions, you're going to be exercising patriarchal dominance over blacks. If you refuse to listen to them, then you're going to be silencing their voices.

If you practice what Martin Luther King Jr. advocated, colorblindness, then you're going to essentially that's now viewed as problematic, and that's just a way that whites keep blacks down and keep them from advancing in the world.

But then if and then if the opposite, if you operate on the basis of conscious ethnic prejudice, then you're also going to be accused of racism, depending on how that manifests itself in any given situation.

So right now, there is no scenario where you're not going to be accused of racism in some way, shape, form. And everything that you say to an ethnic minority is essentially going to be problematized. And that's not just white fragility talking.

That's just listening to what the advocates of critical theory are actually telling us and applying what they're saying in a logical way. If racism is the norm on the ordinary state of affairs, and every interaction is going to be in some sense a manifestation of racism, there's no way to avoid saying anything that's racist.

And so this kind of reaction, you know, it's easy to avoid being canceled, so long as you don't say anything racist. What that actually amounts to is just it amounts to an individual saying the way to avoid being canceled is just to shut up and don't say anything at all.

The problem though is that if you were just to take that advice and just shut up and not say anything at all, you're still going to be accused of racism. So there's no way out. I mean this is just a witch hunt which operates on the level of there's no it's unfalsifiable.

These are claims that are unfalsifiable. There's no way to prove your innocence in this kind of scenario, because everything that you do or say or don't do or say is going to be used as a weapon to essentially prove your guilt.

And any amount of protesting on your part is not going to help you. It's just going to dig the hole further. So if you try to defend yourself, then you are the guilty person who's trying to defend yourself.

If you're the person who doesn't defend yourself, then it's because you were up to no good and you have no defense to offer. And so that's the situation that we find ourselves living in at this kind of point in time.

The Demand to Submit, Confess, and Redistribute

And essentially this idea, you know, it's easy to avoid cancellation if you don't say anything racist. What that actually amounts to is just it amounts to essentially the thought, you know, if you want to get off the hook in these areas, just shut up and do what you're told.

And so whatever we tell you to think, you think. Whatever we tell you to say, you say. If we tell you to give away your job, you give away your job. If we tell you to hire this person, you hire this person.

And that's essentially what the rules of the game actually are in this kind of scenario. And so as long as whites enjoy what you might describe as more socioeconomic advantages over blacks, then there is always going to be in the minds of those who are advocating critical theory this notion that the only reason why these socioeconomic disparities could possibly exist is because of systemic racism.

And there's nothing that can be done at that point except for just to, you know, give away your jobs, give away your money, give away your house, give away your property until somehow everything is all equal and the egalitarian dream is realized.

And, you know, even then that probably won't be enough. And so as you think through this kind of simplistic response to our episode, one of the things you have to realize is that this response really is remarkably ignorant and short-sighted and prejudiced.

And, you know, if you really are listening to the things that are actually being communicated at this very point, you'll realize that there really is no way to avoid being canceled at that point by not saying something that's racist.

So there is no path to avoiding cancellation in that kind of way. You know, and what that essentially amounts to is just shut up and do what you're told and give people exactly what they ask and believe everything that they're saying and give excuses across the board in society for, you know, any failings along ethnic lines.

And so there really is no way to avoid being called a racist in this society.

Closing Remarks and Listener Call for Troll Comments

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