Why I attack Ibram X. Kendi more than Richard Spencer.

in kendi •  3 years ago 

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It's time to be brutally honest with a lot of people.

I've been attacked more than once in regard to my priorities regarding who I attack. I understand that spending more time attacking Ibram X. Kendi than I spend attacking Richard Spencer can seem odd to some of you.

There's a good reason.

Anybody on the Right says anything against immigration, y'all call "racist" immediately. Bernie Sanders disparagingly refers to open borders as a "Koch Brothers" idea, y'all are silent. Y'all go nuts about Richard Spencer saying anything while keeping your gobs shut when Spencer literally retweeted Kendi simply saying, "He's not wrong." You become irate at the slightest racist dog whistle from the Right and I hear nothing from you when leftist racism shows up in the Smithsonian.

Do you need me to be the trillionth voice shouting that the Holocaust was bad? By the way, I've addressed the Holocaust extensively in trying to tell you that most of you have your history wrong about the rise of Nazi Germany. But, do you need that when people on the Being Liberal and Democratic Socialism Now pages either don't know what the Holodomor was; and, even if they do, they'll defend it? Do you need me to complain about a person wearing a swastika when people can wear the hammer and sickle with impunity? Do you need me shouting "Nazism is bad!" in a world where people deny or downplay the gulags and Mao's Great Leap Forward and The Killing Fields of Cambodia? When people are pretending that the only economic problems in Cuba were a result of American capitalism, do you really need me to talk about some skin-head saying something stupid? When millions of people are pretending that Antifa isn't a group of violent terrorists, where should my priorities be?

If you want me to criticize the Right more, start attacking the evil people on the Left more. Please, take up some of the damn slack. Stop pretending that totalitarianism and racism only operates on one side.

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