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by krapp 1924 days ago
For someone who claims not to be racist he sure seems to have a talent for casting aspersions on people of color, and it's odd that he insists systemic racism doesn't exist while complaining about the "White Leftist Power Infrastructure" that controls the media, academia, and Silicon Valley and keeps opportunities away from people of color, and spending the bulk of the article relating a lifetime of encountering anti-Semitism at every turn.

I mean, he's not entirely wrong, at least not about the hypocrisy of white liberals, but his obvious hatred of leftists and modernity (as his slight against "the Millennials and the Generation Z sorts who think Cardi B is their answer to Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" illustrates) undermines the clarity of his thinking.

To assume that systemic racism no longer exists because people of color can succeed at if they merely excel "(like) LeBron James and Kobe Bryant at basketball, Jackie Robinson and Henry Aaron at baseball, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson at singing … or Thomas Sowell in economics, Ben Carson in medicine..." the way he did under a system he admits was bigoted against him is shockingly naive from a man of his background.

He seems to have never once stopped to wonder why the bar is set so high only for Jews and people of color, and the reward so relatively low. It's almost as if there were systemic obstacles set against the success of certain races and classes of people that were not set against other races and classes.

And the parts where he blames Obama for destroying American culture and brainwashing people into believing in systemic racism and takes a swipe at Kamala Harris' family for owning slaves "unlike him" makes the true nature of the author's bigotry apparent.