If your friends were to suddenly accuse you of racism, how could or would you defend yourself?
Could you simply say “you all know me, and you know that isn’t true”?
Possibly, if they were relatively sane, but what if the accusation got into wider circulation? What if you were accused in a public forum, or in a school newspaper, or if gossip were spread across a campus or corporation? Could you control that damage?
Here is the thing, people who DO know you may forgive you, but if they side with you in one of these dismally generic witch hunts, they themselves get thrown in with you. No matter how irrational the charge is–no matter how absurd it is, and utterly lacking in evidential basis in either the facts or your personal history or actual beliefs–to be accused is to be convicted, and to be associated with a “guilty” person is to be guilty by association. There are no appeals, and there is no hearing with respect to evidence.
The mob needs regular blood, and the people running this shit show work hard to give them red meat every week.
And here is something I will speculate is quite possible: what if the Left brands 2+2=4 a “White Supremacist” slogan? They ran with the OK sign, so why not basic math? I truly, literally, think this is possible.
What if you were overheard saying, “OF COURSE 2+2=4, but you need to be careful who you say that to”? White Supremacist. You fucking racist. It is literally this bad. This is not satire. I’m not joking in the least.
What got me thinking about this was two idiots on a public access radio station were saying “Eric Clapton is a racist.”
Now, I read a lot of news, so unless I’ve missed something, the logic has to have come from the fact that he opposes mandatory spike protein injections, because he himself got the jab, and was nearly paralyzed. Then he was condemned for speaking publicly about it, despite there being ZERO indication he was doing anything but telling the truth.
You get that? He did what he was told, suffered terribly, talked about it, and now he is hated by the Left, which may as well call him a racist, since anyone who opposes the sole possible salvation of black people–the Democrats, without whom all black people are helpless infants–MUST be racist. Get that? If you get the jab, suffer side effects, then complain about it: RACIST!!! BIGOT!!!
It’s fucking unbelievable. I don’t know what the solution is. It’s not a question of bad ideas, but deep seated and stable mental illness. How can you show the light to blind people who think they can see better than you?
But it is very, very obvious that anyone who values fairness, who values kindness and compassion, and anyone who actually wants to HELP the black community–rather than yell at white people for crimes they haven’t committed–has got to reject the totality of Democrats, and many if not most Republicans.