(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The GOP Anti-Woke attack is Nu-Fascism, the Racism, Sexism and LGBTQphobia of the Present and Future [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-17 You can see this with the blanket denial by those in the GOP that it was actually their own fans and supporters who committed the January 6 attack on the Capitol. They argue that it wasn’t them, it must have been Antifa. No one from Antifa has been identified in any of the videos from the attack. No one from Antifa has been arrested, charged, or tried for participation in the attack. And yet this delusion persists. When someone from the far-right stages a racist or bigoted attack, they deny that this person had anything to do with GOP ideology. GOPers repeatedly extoll the Great Replacement Theory that Democrats actually have a secret plot to import brown Latinos from the South to physically replace White people in America. They say we want to dilute their representation and their vote. We’ve heard this very clearly from Tucker Carlson. It doesn’t matter that migrants don’t get to vote until they become naturalized citizens, an interminably long and complex process. Or else, until their native-born children turn 18-years old. So, the great Democratic plan is to decisively win the election of 2042? This is thinly disguised immigrant hate. It’s racism. And when a gunman goes out — armed with this theory in his head — and kills a dozen more people they claim they had nothing to do with it. When it happened at the Tree of Life Synagogue, they claim innocence. When it happened at the El Paso Walmart, they claim innocence. When it happened at Buffalo Supermarket, they claim innocence. When it happened in Charlottesville, they claim innocence. When it happened at Charleston — on Nimrata Haley’s watch — she claims innocence. They are Stochastic Terrorists, stirring up hate and resentment then standing back and letting the mayhem ensue. Their second big trick, is claiming that the LEFT is the group that is systematically stirring up “trouble” with their “radical ideology.” This is the nature of their attack on supposed “CRT” which is a graduate-level analysis of systematic bias in the justice system and other areas. They don’t address the validity of that study where we have Black people stopped, searched, arrested, assaulted and killed by police 2-3 more often even though they have a lower rate of finding drugs and guns on them. For years, police records have shown that black drivers tend to be less likely than white drivers to turn up with guns or drugs when searched at traffic stops. At the same time, black drivers are three times more likely than white drivers to be subjected to these searches, according to a 2013 federal survey. You might object (or not) to the idea of racial profiling — officers taking race into account when determining whether to stop and scrutinize someone. But few would endorse racial profiling that clearly doesn't work. It's apparent, though, that ineffectual, biased policing continues in many places — more black people are stopped and searched for contraband, while more white people are found with it. The police, it seems safe to assume, want to do their job most effectively. So the puzzle is: Why are they continuing to search drivers in an inefficient way? They say that police aren’t systematically racist — and yet this continues to happen. Similarly when people are brought into court, black people are charged with crimes at a rate that is 5 times higher than whites, and they are prosecuted and sentenced at a rate that is 7 times higher. The over-representation of black Americans in the nation’s justice system is well documented. Black men comprise about 13 percent of the male population, but about 35 percent of those incarcerated. One in three black men born today can expect to be incarcerated in his lifetime, compared to one in six Latino men and one in 17 white men. Black women are similarly impacted: one in 18 black women born in 2001 is likely to be incarcerated sometime in her life, compared to one in 111 white women. The underlying reasons for this dis-proportionate representation are rooted in the history of the United States and perpetuated by current practices within the nation’s justice system. The Right and the GOP ignore this. They don't consider the idea that the entire justice system is biased from top to bottom, although in other contexts they claim exactly that it is — against them, they simply blow this off as simply the way that business is done. Instead of addressing any of this, they argue that CRT is a system of reverse anti-white racism that is designed to make poor innocent white children hate themselves based on the sins of their ancestors. Listen here as Ted Cruz proclaims that CRT is a racist as a “Klansman in the sheets” at the Faith and Freedom coalition. He argues that our Founding Fathers were “extraordinary patriots”, that “Police keep us safe”, children do best when raised by a “mother and a father”, the Wuhan virus “came from Wuhan” and there is a “difference between boys and girls.” He says that now saying those words can get you fired, “cancelled” and erased. He immediately makes his position that of the victimized, not of the victimized. “All of the foundations of this country are under assault” he proclaims. “The eternal principles America was built on, are being attacked.” he says. “The Left are like the Terminator. They’re soulless, have no heart, no brain and red eyes.” “They control the airwaves, they control media, they control journalism, they control education, they control Hollywood, they control culture, and they try to tell us ‘Nobody else thinks like you.’” Geez. If only we had all that power. Could you imagine? But of course, we don't. Most Newspaper owners, Cable News owners, Hollywood Producers and Owners — are Republicans. Chris Licht at CNN, Jerry Bruckheimer, Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood, Caitlyn Jenner, Bruce Willis, James Woods, Stacey Dash, Gary Sinise, Dr Oz, John Voight, Tim Allen, Robert Duvall, and Kelsey Grammer are all Republicans. They don't have power in Hollywood? They don’t have power in the culture? On CRT he eventually says “It’s a theory that derives from Marxism, Karl Marx viewed the entire world as a conflict between classes, between the owners of Capitol and the worker proletariat. A fundamental battle in society. CRT takes that same Marxist concept except it replaces class with race. And it says all of America, and all of the world is a battle between the races. Critical Race Theory says every white person is a racist. Critical Race Theory says America is fundamentally racist and irredeemably racist. Critical Race Theory seeks to turn us against each other, and if someone has a different color skin seeks to make us hate that person. And let me tell you right now that Critical Race theory is bigoted, it is a lie, and it is every bit as racist as the Klansmen in White Sheets.” Again, the play here is that a form of study that is against systematic racism — is itself racist in construction. People that are pointing out racism are somehow themselves racist for doing so. It deflects from actual racism happening to actual people and instead superimposes theoretical racism against white people its stead. Uh huh. 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