Racism: Why Are So Many People Convinced America is Racist?

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On this episode of Bible Bash, we'll be answering the question, Why are so many people convinced that America is racist?

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Now, under the old definition of racism or scientific racism, the idea of racism was much easier to define than it is today.

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Under the terms of scientific racism, a race was essentially a biologically distinct group of humans that could be categorized hierarchically as superior or inferior due to their placement on the evolutionary ladder.

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So the higher races were deemed to be worthy of more respect than the lower races, who were more animal -like in their disposition and in their character and the kind of dignity that was to be applied to them.

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So under scientific racism, that was the type of thing that was fairly easy to identify.

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If you believed that certain classes of people, ethnic classes of people, were fundamentally, in some sense, almost subhuman, then that could be an identifier that you were indeed a racist because you believed in this concept of race.

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You didn't consider humanity to be essentially unified as a whole. You believed that there were certain classes of people who were fundamentally more advanced or farther along the evolutionary ladder than others.

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Now, under this kind of arrangement then, if you were the type of individual who believed that intermarriage between members of different races was fundamentally immoral, if you weren't just making that kind of pronouncement out of practical reasons in terms of an individual was thinking that that was unwise, if you thought fundamentally there was something immoral about doing that, that would be a clear indication that you're dealing with a racist kind of individual because you're dealing with the kind of individual who is basically making the moral argument that human beings shouldn't functionally breed with ape -like creatures.

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So there's fundamentally different dignity that was associated to the higher races in this kind of framework than the lesser races in this kind of framework.

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And then there's a superiority that's attached to that, and then there's also kind of a hatred that's attached to, and a lessening of dignity attached with members of what were deemed to be lower races.

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Now, because of the advent of modern genetics, one of the things that we found is that we found that the human genome is much less diverse than we might have originally thought, and we are far more alike with members of different ethnicities than what we realized.

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And the idea of scientific racism, it was never good science to begin with because Darwinism wasn't good science to begin with, but it's something that largely social pressure has forced us to overturn, and then the scientific advancements in the world, if we're paying attention to that at all, would bear witness to the stark reality that the human race is essentially unified.

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And this is something that the Bible essentially would tell us, that we are all members of one human race.

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There's not different human races. There's only one human race that's all descended from Adam and then

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Noah later on. So when you think about scientific racism, most people today aren't guilty of scientific racism, and yet one of the things that has happened is that we are still living in the type of society that fundamentally considers

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America to be fundamentally racist. So how can we be living in a society that's fundamentally racist when all the old definitions of what we would constitute as racism and the easy identifiers of racism are largely not held by the vast majority of people alive today?

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There are a few people, French people out there, who still believe in the

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Darwinian conception of race, but the vast majority of people, although we've kept the

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Darwinism, we've chucked the scientific racism. Now one of the things that's happened is that functionally, what's happened is that we've overturned this notion of scientific racism, but then this idea of racism itself has been something that is an ever amorphous and constantly expanding idea that functionally today is very, very difficult to define.

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So the idea of racism today is a term, racism itself is a term that is constantly expanding and there doesn't seem to be any good definition of racism, particularly because one of the things that's happened is that in common parlance and the way that we actually communicate with other human beings, this term is being used in so many contradictory and different sorts of scenarios to the point where the term itself is beginning to lose meaning.

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So if you're trying to answer the question, why are so many people convinced that America is racist? Well part of the reason why so many people are convinced that America is racist is because we have a term that is constantly expanding and people are using it in such a wide variety of circumstances and situations, some of which are serious and other which are very benign or somewhat confused.

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And so we don't have a settled, agreed upon definition of racism anymore and one of the things that's happened is because of the advent of critical theory in the world, what's happened is that essentially the world is divided up into different classes of people and so the way that individuals who are infected by critical theory think is that the world is divided up into oppressor classes and oppressed classes.

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And part of what's happened in our society is we are living in a victim society and so there's great capital to be found in the language of victimization.

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If you can claim to be a victim in our society, you gain a lot of power. So not only do you gain sympathy from other people, but you gain power over other individuals and this word racism has been a tool or the word racist, this is a tool that individuals are using to exert power in the world and part of the way that this tool is used is by a constantly changing definition of what actually constitutes as racism.

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So it used to be that a racist was a person who considered himself morally superior as a member of a superior race than members of a different kind of race because they considered themselves higher up on the evolutionary ladder and you had a hatred that was associated with that and a condescension that was associated with that and a willingness to remove the rights of other people on the basis of their placement along the evolutionary ladder.

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Now what's happened is we've chucked that as a society, but then when you look around the world, one of the things that you're going to realize is that along ethnic lines,

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Caucasians do better in terms of their socioeconomic standing in the world than blacks do.

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And so one of the things that's happened is that with critical theory's entrance into the academic world and infection of our brains, what we're trained to do at almost every level is when you see a disparity along ethnic lines, so if you see the fact that blacks today commit three and a half times the violent crime that whites commit or you see socioeconomic indicators that show that whites have a higher than average salary, they have better job opportunities across the board, if you see these kind of things, then because we're living in a world that's dominated by critical theory, the only explanation that we can give to explain these phenomenon is that there must be some sort of racism in the world.

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And so racism now, it changed from the scientific notion of racism to now it's power plus privilege.

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And racism for the person who's infected by critical theory is now only the type of adjective that can be applied to an individual who is perceived to have a large measure of institutional power in the world.

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So one of the things that's happened is so many people are convinced that America is racist because in part we keep on changing the definition of racism.

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So now racism can be pretty much anytime you are arguing with a liberal, anytime you say something disparaging about a black person in general or black people as a group, that can be considered racist.

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If you reject multiculturalism and you refuse to believe that all cultures are fundamentally equal and you believe that there are some cultures, so you're not believing that there are some types of people who are superior to others, but if you believe that some cultures are superior to other cultures, that's now considered to be racist.

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If you believe that individuals should have the right or freedom to make certain choices and not be forced to hire based on quotas, you're considered to be racist.

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So one of the things that's happened is we have a constantly expanding definition of racism and so it's hard to keep up.

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And that's one of the tools that the Marxists are using to basically fundamentally destabilize a society is by constantly changing your definition of racism and problematizing normal things.

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Now Robin DiAngelo in her book White Fragility basically tells us that racism is the everyday reality of the world.

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It's a normal thing. The question is not whether racism has occurred, but it's how did it occur in any given interaction.

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And so under this kind of notion, essentially, racism is the air we breathe. Everything is going to be construed as racism.

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And one of the things that happens in this society when you basically problematize every kind of social interaction between members of the dominant group and the oppressed group, when you divide the world up in that kind of way and every interaction is problematized, what happens is that you basically, in every single encounter, you're going to be accused of racism in some way.

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And this shows up and if you just have eyes to see and you have ears to hear and if you're a white person living in a world that's infected with this kind of thinking, then the vast majority of white people when they interact with a black person, one of the things that happens is that there is this sense of nervousness that the vast majority of Caucasian people feel because they can't keep up with the rules.

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And so one of the most common and embarrassing kind of things that white people will say to black people when they're interacting with them is that they'll ask them,

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Hey, what should I call you? Like in terms of how do you identify in terms of your race? And so it used to be that you would call black people

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African -Americans and at some point it was black. And then at some point it was –

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I think now it's person of color, which is very odd considering the fact that colored people are still considered to be a slur.

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And so one of the things that happens is like the Marxist idea is to set two classes of people against each other and to constantly problematize basic fundamental interactions.

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So at this point, essentially there really is no way to identify a black person.

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If you're going to criticize any element of their culture at all, whatever you say is invariably going to be wrong.

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And not only whatever you use to identify them is going to be invariably wrong. Identifying them is going to be invariably wrong.

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And not identifying them is going to be wrong depending on the situation you find yourself in.

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There are no rules anymore. I mean basically the way critical theory works is that every interaction is considered racism and it's not how but – it's not if it happened but how did it happen.

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And so if you introduce someone as your black friend, then you can be criticized for that.

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If you don't introduce them as a black professor, you can be problematized for that.

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If you don't use the appropriate description, person of color or black person or African American, you can be criticized for that depending on the kind of person that you're going to interact with.

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If you ask the question, what should we call you? Then you're going to be exercising dominance over that individual and forcing them to be your dictionary and you should just educate yourself and do the work of informing yourself.

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They shouldn't be this individual that you're having to come to that is going to have to be enslaved by you to give them information that they don't feel like giving and having to answer questions that are fundamentally exhausting to them and everything else.

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So the way things work in the world is that we're living in a world that's dominated by this theory that the world can be divided up in depressors and depressed.

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And functionally what that means is that every interaction is just going to be turned into an interaction that's going to be in some sense a manifestation of racism as far as that goes.

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So just to give you some examples in my life of situations that would get me branded a racist that are going along these lines.

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My brother and I, we had a party where we had three of our black friends come to this party.

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So we're going grocery shopping at that point and trying to figure out what to buy. And my brother asked me, the plan was to make sandwiches at the party.

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My brother was asking me, what do you think that black people like to eat? What can we get for them that they'd like?

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And I told him because I had some black friends growing up that I went over to their house and everything else.

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I said, hey, if you're going to make sandwiches, instead of getting mayonnaise, get some Miracle Whip. And instead of just getting regular sodas like you like, you might want to get some fruity sodas that they would like too.

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And one of the things that happened is when we had our black friends come over, all three of them were exclaiming about how excited they were that we had gotten them

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Miracle Whip. And then they were excited about the drinks that we bought.

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Now, if I were to told them that, yes, we got those because you guys were black guys and we thought that you would like that, then all of a sudden we're racist.

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But that's just basic hospitality and that's the way it works. And if you want to understand how insane the society we actually live in actually is,

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I mean, just think about the example in the reverse. So if you're going to throw a party for white girls, what would you buy?

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Well, you can just do any kind of number of Internet searches online. And if you want to throw a party for a bunch of white girls, then it would be a safe bet to cater some

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Chick -fil -A, get some pumpkin spice lattes, and get some scented candles as door prizes.

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And you would probably make the vast majority of white girls happy with the hospitality selections that you pick.

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But then because we're living in a world right now that has basically problematized every kind of interaction along those lines, then all of these interactions are fraught with all sorts of racial disharmony.

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And that's what happens. So when you're living in a world where the question is not whether racism occurred but how did it occur, then there is no actual right answer in any of these situations.

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So if you buy bland food for your black friends that they're not going to like, then you're going to get accused of being just self -centered and just totally white.

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But then if you buy some of the stuff that you might suspect that they might actually like, then all of a sudden you're stereotyping and basically engaging in racism.

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But then the problem with all of this is that we're living in a society right now that has basically embraced a double standard as it relates to these kind of things.

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And so the vast majority of people in America are convinced that we're racist because the word itself is constantly expanding.

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That's the point. This term itself is constantly being expanded. And every interaction along ethnic lines is fundamentally being problematized to where essentially you go into these interactions walking on eggshells because you don't know all the ways that you could possibly be offended.

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Now the problem with this biblically is that the Bible says that love bears all things.

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And the Bible says it's the glory of a man to overlook an offense. And the more that we actually grow in the Christian life, we are going to grow in such a way that we're going to be less easily offended.

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We're going to be less easily bothered. And this goes both ways. And so there are not special rules that one class of people based on their skin color and their past history and everything else are going to be uniquely allowed to walk around with a chip on their shoulder and basically problematize every interaction and basically think the worst about people and jump to conclusions and be judgmental and everything else.

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And then another class of people has to be perpetually at the mercy of the other class just on the basis of things that their ancestors did which were no doubt horrible and horrendous.

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So if there's any hope for America, if there's any hope for our country in general, the only hope that's going to be found is if we regain kind of a normal sense of what the word racism actually means, quit using this word as an all -purpose word that basically is used any time a black person has something happen that they don't like.

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Like we need a clearer definition of racism. We need a more objective definition of racism that isn't just in the subjective whim of an aggrieved class of people who are taught to be fundamentally aggrieved based on the kind of society that we're actually living in.

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Now the reality is that we are living in a society full of guilty people and guilty people are easily manipulated.

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That's the way it works. So the Bible says that the wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as lions.

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But we're living in the kind of society that has massive amounts of blood guilt on our hands.

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And so when you're thinking about this subject of race, we're the kind of individuals who have embraced sexual deviancy to our destruction.

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We are killing children in our mother's womb almost at the same rate that we're having children.

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We're living in a bloodthirsty society and we're fundamentally immoral and we're fundamentally easily manipulated.

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And so when you're living in a society like that, then a word like racism can be used as an all -purpose club to basically score political points and to beat people into submission.

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And what we're actually trying to pursue is not racial reconciliation in any real sense. What we're trying to do is just set two kinds of people against each other and problematize just normal interactions and normal kinds of behaviors.

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And so why are so many... the question there is this. Why are so many people convinced that America is racist?

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Because we keep on changing this definition of racism. We're full of guilt, we're full of shame, and we're full of condemnation.

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And we're just easily manipulated at this point. And so at this point, the vast majority of people intuitively know all the ways in which they're being told things are racist.

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But then if they stop and they think for just a few moments, why was that racist? There's a growing number of people who are basically just tired of everything being called racist when this word has essentially at that point lost all meaning.

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