Professor Claims "Civility" Is A Euphemism For "White Supremacy"

[Swordsmyth]

Simran Jeet Singh, a Henry R. Luce Post-Doctoral Fellow for Religion in International Affairs at NYU’s Center for Religion and Media, made the claim Monday evening in two Twitter threads that appeared to be a response to widespread calls for civility after Maxine Waters publicly endorsed the mass harassment of members of the Trump administration this weekend.

Singh, who describes himself as an “anti-racist activist,” proposed in the first thread that “lecturing people of color about civility in this climate is an ultimate sign of privilege.”

“If you don’t know what it’s like to fight for your life every single day, then it might not be your place to tell us how to fight personal and systemic racism,” he asserts, later adding that “they mobilize and run these dehumanizing racist systems—and then they ask us to be more civil?”
“Civility is racially coded, too,” Singh explains in the second thread.
“Europeans described those they colonized as uncivilized people’s (barbaric, backwards, savages) in need of civilizing,” he claims. “This logic was central to the colonial enterprise.”
​

According to the academic, the entire concept of “civility” is rooted in white supremacy, because “part of the colonial legacy is the continued representation of people of color as being less civil,” adding that “this stereotype continues to permeate our social imaginations.”

“Given how whiteness is rooted in European colonialism,” he says, “it is easy to see how and why whiteness aims to make an exclusive claim to civility.”
Singh concludes his remarks by arguing that “calls for civility are just a power play by those who feel that white supremacy is under threat.”
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Singh also made headlines last summer, after posting a number of tweets disparaging Trump supporters, including a statement that “all Trump supporters tacitly condone racism” and a controversial photograph of his brother making two middle-finger gestures in front of then president elect Trump’s New York City residence.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-28/professor-claims-civility-euphemism-white-supremacy

 

[jkr]

Guilty!

 

[oyarde]

Well this Simran Jeet Singh or Patel or whatever of NYU Media center of douchebags is right about one thing , I feel no need to be civil to Maxy or the horrible unamerican fucks that voted for her .

 

[tod evans]

Fuck 'em in the neck.

 

[AuH20]

I thought we were White Butchers??!?!? Why is this guy switching up on us?

 

[Swordsmyth]

I thought we were White Butchers??!?!? Why is this guy switching up on us?

Because their side is losing and they want to kick over the table and incite violence.

 

[RJB]

I would write this off as a lone loon, but I have seen people posting this on Facebook more and more. Even anger at those who voted 3rd party as if I owe anyone my f-ing vote. It is now racist or a sign of white privilege to vote 3rd party. Screw 'em. I will continue to do what I want.

 

[Swordsmyth]

I would write this off as a lone loon, but I have seen people posting this on Facebook more and more. Even anger at those who voted 3rd party as if I owe anyone my f-ing vote. It is now racist or a sign of white privilege to vote 3rd party. Screw 'em. I will continue to do what I want.

Related:
[h=3]'We are not calling for the slaughter of white people - at least for now'[/h]

 

[Anti Federalist]

Simran Jeet Singh

Get the fuck out of my country.

There, how's that for incivility?

 

[Swordsmyth]

Get the $#@! out of my country.

There, how's that for incivility?

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy -- willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.


Rudyard Kipling

 

[aGameOfThrones]

Everything is racist! Hell, police body cameras are racist now.

 

[Swordsmyth]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), devoted liberals both, are “racist.” That’s according to leftist CNN political commentator Angela Rye (D-Media), shown, who condemned the two gerontocrats for criticizing Maxine Waters’ (D-Calif.) call for the harassment of Trump officials. It’s reflective of the rise of a more radical “new Left,” which threatens both the old guard’s power and our nation itself.
The new Left is just like the old Left — only more so. It’s epitomized by Tuesday’s upset victory in New York’s 14th district, where 28-year-old avowed socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated the favored 20-year incumbent, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), by a wide margin. Interestingly, Cortez played the race card against Crowley, sending the message that no one should vote for an old white guy. She even retweeted the picture of an attorney who expressed the sentiment that “all white people are racist.” (She certainly knows something about white people. She was surrounded by them in wealthy Yorktown Heights, New York, which is where, contrary to her “Bronx girl” image, she spent most of her formative years.)

Perhaps Cortez should be asked if Pelosi and Schumer — and other white Democrats — are “racist,” since they’re part of “all white people.” Regardless, Donald Trump, Jr. noted the internecine Democrat strife and tweeted: "You know the Democrats are having a bad week when they start calling each other racists instead of just using that term for anything or anyone they disagree with politically."
What Rye literally said, during a CNN panel discussion Thursday with Steve Cortes of the Trump re-election Advisory Council, is that the Pelosi/Schumer criticism “has everything to do with the fact that this Black woman [Waters] is intimidating to some people who can’t handle the truth. It has everything to do with race’” (video below).




Rye no doubt believes her own folderol, as people often project their own obsessions onto others. For people generally don’t recognize obsessions as obsessions, that the object of their fixation is only all-important to them. They naturally assume that it is so objectively (otherwise, why would they fixate on it?), so it must be important to others, too. This is why the greedy so often ascribe avarice to their fellow man and sex maniacs suppose that everyone else is also a pervert.
In keeping with this, however, Rye’s accusations are a projection of her own sins. This brings us to the proper response: “No, you are the 'racist' because you’re only making these accusations against me because I’m white.” It not only is rhetorically effective and can cut off the “racism” ploy at the knees, but it also happens to be true.

More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usne...-its-own-dem-accuses-pelosi-schumer-of-racism

 

[timosman]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), devoted liberals both, are “racist.” That’s according to leftist CNN political commentator Angela Rye (D-Media), shown, who condemned the two gerontocrats for criticizing Maxine Waters’ (D-Calif.) call for the harassment of Trump officials. It’s reflective of the rise of a more radical “new Left,” which threatens both the old guard’s power and our nation itself.
The new Left is just like the old Left — only more so. It’s epitomized by Tuesday’s upset victory in New York’s 14th district, where 28-year-old avowed socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated the favored 20-year incumbent, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), by a wide margin. Interestingly, Cortez played the race card against Crowley, sending the message that no one should vote for an old white guy. She even retweeted the picture of an attorney who expressed the sentiment that “all white people are racist.” (She certainly knows something about white people. She was surrounded by them in wealthy Yorktown Heights, New York, which is where, contrary to her “Bronx girl” image, she spent most of her formative years.)

Perhaps Cortez should be asked if Pelosi and Schumer — and other white Democrats — are “racist,” since they’re part of “all white people.” Regardless, Donald Trump, Jr. noted the internecine Democrat strife and tweeted: "You know the Democrats are having a bad week when they start calling each other racists instead of just using that term for anything or anyone they disagree with politically."
What Rye literally said, during a CNN panel discussion Thursday with Steve Cortes of the Trump re-election Advisory Council, is that the Pelosi/Schumer criticism “has everything to do with the fact that this Black woman [Waters] is intimidating to some people who can’t handle the truth. It has everything to do with race’” (video below).




Rye no doubt believes her own folderol, as people often project their own obsessions onto others. For people generally don’t recognize obsessions as obsessions, that the object of their fixation is only all-important to them. They naturally assume that it is so objectively (otherwise, why would they fixate on it?), so it must be important to others, too. This is why the greedy so often ascribe avarice to their fellow man and sex maniacs suppose that everyone else is also a pervert.
In keeping with this, however, Rye’s accusations are a projection of her own sins. This brings us to the proper response: “No, you are the 'racist' because you’re only making these accusations against me because I’m white.” It not only is rhetorically effective and can cut off the “racism” ploy at the knees, but it also happens to be true.

More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usne...-its-own-dem-accuses-pelosi-schumer-of-racism

Let's put thing in perspective a bit:

She's using Trump's talking points to attack him. The embarrassment on Joy Reid's face - priceless. I just realized she's crazy.

 

[openfire]

These people are insane.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Seriously kill yourself. How's that for civility?

 

[FvS]

 

[Danke]

Fuck 'em in the neck.

After you rip their heads off, right?

 

[tod evans]

After you rip their heads off, right?

Of course.

 

[Anti Federalist]

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy -- willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.

Rudyard Kipling

Eric Peters posted this in reply to me when I posted that Kipling poem:

Christianity — and this is its fairest merit — subdued to a certain extent the brutal warrior ardor of the Germans, but it could not entirely quench it; and when the cross, that restraining talisman, falls to pieces, then will break forth again the ferocity of the old combatants the frantic Berserker rage whereof Northern poets have said and sung so much.

The talisman has become rotten, and the day will come when it will pitifully crumble to dust. The old stone gods will then arise from the forgotten ruins and wipe from their eyes the dust of centuries, and Thor with his giant hammer will arise again… Heinrich Heine

 

[Swordsmyth]

Eric Peters posted this in reply to me when I posted that Kipling poem:

Christianity — and this is its fairest merit — subdued to a certain extent the brutal warrior ardor of the Germans, but it could not entirely quench it; and when the cross, that restraining talisman, falls to pieces, then will break forth again the ferocity of the old combatants the frantic Berserker rage whereof Northern poets have said and sung so much.

The talisman has become rotten, and the day will come when it will pitifully crumble to dust. The old stone gods will then arise from the forgotten ruins and wipe from their eyes the dust of centuries, and Thor with his giant hammer will arise again… Heinrich Heine

He sounds like he thinks Christianity is an albatross that we will be well rid of.
It was not Christianity that brought us here, Christianity produced the Crusaders, it restrained the warrior spirit (which was good) but it didn't destroy it, liberalism destroyed both Christianity and the warrior spirit.
When liberalism finally crumbles to dust then the warrior spirit and true Christianity will both return.
I have no doubt that neopaganism will attempt to fill the vacuum before Christianity's resurrection is complete and those societies that adopt it will be the worse for it.