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The Amazon blurb says that The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. The allegations of racism in policing, college admissions, segregation in housing, and hiring and promotions in the workplace ignore the ways in which the problems that prompt the allegations of systemic racism are driven by these two realities.

America’s most precious ideal, from the Founders, is what used to be known as the American Creed: People are not to be judged by race, color, or creed. They must be judged as individuals. Progressives disagree: DO judge by race!

What good can come of bringing them into the open? America’s most precious ideal is what used to be known as the American Creed: People are not to be judged by where they came from, what social class they come from, or by race, color, or creed. They must be judged as individuals. The prevailing Progressive ideology repudiates that ideal, demanding instead that the state should judge people by their race, social origins, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.

We on the center left and center right who are the American Creed’s natural defenders have painted ourselves into a corner. We have been unwilling to say openly that different groups have significant group differences. Since we have not been willing to say that, we have been left defenseless against the claims that racism is to blame. What else could it be? We have been afraid to answer. We must. Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America is a step in that direction.

Murray says that "The core premise of identity politics is that individuals are inescapably defined by the groups into which they were born — principally (but not exclusively) by race and sex — and that this understanding must shape our politics. Identity politics turns the American creed on its head. Treating people as individuals is considered immoral because it ignores our history of racism and sexism. Remedying America’s systemic racism and omnipresent White privilege requires that people of color be treated preferentially. The power of the state not only may legitimately be used to this end. It must be so used—and sweepingly."

Political correctness on campus

He continues "I didn’t take identity politics seriously for a long time. I thought that the academy was once again indulging its fondness for recreational radicalism. Surely no one outside academia except the extreme left would pay much attention. I was wrong. I had underestimated the extent to which today’s academia and today’s elite media share the same worldview. I had underestimated the intolerance of dissent that went with the movement, and how effectively that intolerance could stifle opposition from moderate liberals. In 2019, the campaign season for the Democratic presidential nomination began. By the end of the year it was clear that identity politics had become the consensus ideology of the left wing of the Democratic party."

Murray finishes with "When the protests and riots over the death of George Floyd erupted in the summer of 2020, identity politics demonstrated how far it had spread and how much influence it wielded not only over the Democratic Party and academia, but over corporate America too, as famous companies scrambled to condemn their own White privilege and promised to make amends. The new administration came to office in January 2021 with the support of American elites who had largely accepted that the ideals of color-blindness . . . were evidence of the racism still embedded in the White consciousness."

Murray has concluded, like us and all Republicans and some Democrats, that the government playing the game of racial favoritism, doling out rewards and punishments according to the color of our skin, and labeling blacks innocent victims and whites evil racist victimizers was/is a toxic idea leading to overreach and injustice. He uses actual verifiable statistical facts to analyze the issues involved.

People like Martin Luther King and other patriots asked us to evaluate people not according to the color of their skins but according to the content of their character. Even though this icon still has a day named after him, the radical liberal elites have spit in his face and called him a racist as well (these are white people victimizing yet another black person and yet failing to see the irony, hypocrisy, and evilness of their new perspective.

People like Martin Luther King and other patriots asked us to evaluate people not according to the color of their skins but according to the content of their character

X. Kendi and Charles Murray are the last men standing in the dumb blacks vs. systemic racism wars. One or the other must be right. Murray says blacks, unfortunately, have problems because they tend to be less smart and more violent. Kendi says any disparities demonstrate that whites are evil and therefore must pay. The 1619 Project and critical race theory (which are pseudoscience and pseudohistory) fit this theory, while actual statistical science facts fit Murray's theory.

The 1619 Project and critical race theory (which are pseudoscience and pseudohistory) fit the 'whites are evil and victimize blacks' theory, while actual statistical science facts fit Murray's theory

In his book, we learn that Latinos are arrested for murder about five times more often per capita than whites, while blacks are about twenty times more likely than whites to be arrested for murder. It seems to be viewed as a sport, not a crime, in Chicago, as gangs use guns to settle every dispute, and overworked cops can do little but try to keep score. Cops attempting to arrest or even question black suspects are seen as racist for having the gall to even try to do their jobs. And then they get blamed for failing to make the streets safe. Let's defund the cops!

In schools, blacks are taught they are victims of evil whites and students or professors confronting such poppycock are either expelled or canceled or forced to suffer through reprogramming

In schools, blacks are taught they are victims of evil whites and students or professors confronting such poppycock are either expelled or canceled or forced to suffer through reprogramming. Colleges have degenerated from educational institutes to indoctrination institutes. They teach Marxist, anti-American, unpatriotic propaganda and dare to make students pay for the privilege of being brainwashed with lies and socialist propaganda direct out of Mao's playbook, which apparently is the same one used by the Democrats.

Colleges have degenerated from educational institutes to indoctrination institutes. They teach Marxist, anti-American, unpatriotic propaganda and dare to make students pay for the privilege of being brainwashed with lies and socialist propaganda direct out of Mao's playbook, which apparently is the same one used by the Democrats.

Charles Murray, the political scientist, author, and libertarian, was assaulted at Middlebury college because some of the spoiled snots at his presentation had been so indoctrinated with Marxist propaganda that they foolishly believed conservative thought was evil racism that no one should hear. (Source: A Violent Attack on Free Speech at Middlebury, Peter Beinart, the atlantic)

Mao's infamous playbook of Marxist propaganda, which apparently is the same one used by the Democrats

David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, had just started a lecture at Butler when he was hit with a pie. “There’s a wave of violence on college campuses, committed by what I’d call fascists opposing conservatives,” Horowitz said. “It’s one step from that to injury.” Radical leftists are like fascists in that they believe only their propaganda should be heard—no one else should be heard. (See Leftist Fascism) This is the antithesis of everything America and our great Constitution stand for, yet leftists caught butchering free speech like this are so ignorant they are not even ashamed. Obviously our colleges are failing to impart any wisdom to the spoiled snots they indoctrinate. (Source: David Horowitz Hit by Pie at Butler Lecture, James Joyner, outside the beltway)

Conservative David Horowitz Hit by Pie at Butler Lecture by leftist fascist cowards

In the future, leftists will get NSA to burn the Constitution since they now believe in woke Marxist socialism and nothing else

George Leef says "In his new book, Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America, Murray foresees an America that is beset by an advanced, highly malignant cancer—identity politics. The book’s goal is to help people talk sensibly about our social problems, something that has become extremely difficult with the extraordinarily vehement claims about “institutional racism,” “white privilege,” and the like. These days, anyone who tries to argue that the country is not thoroughly suffused with racism that oppresses minority groups is far more likely to be physically assaulted (as Murray was in a talk he gave at Middlebury College) than to receive a reasoned reply.

"Murray is deeply worried about the rapid spread of “woke” ideology, which rejects the ideas upon which our civilization is based, first and foremost tolerance for disagreement. An ugly mindset that is akin to that of Mao’s infamous Red Guards now pervades our education system, and is making inroads into the business world. Either express agreement with every “progressive” notion or you’ll be targeted for vicious attacks and loss of job." [Many people erroneously think that big corporations and mainstream media actually BELIEVE in the woke nonsense. This is not true, as one learns if one talks to enough of them. They pretend to buy the woke B.S. only to avoid cancellation or job loss.] (Source: Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America, George Leef, AIER)

Charles Murray is a political scientist, author, and libertarian. He first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of "Losing Ground," which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. His 1994 New York Times bestseller, "The Bell Curve" (Free Press, 1994), coauthored with the late Richard J. Herrnstein, sparked heated controversy for its analysis of the role of IQ in shaping America's class structure. Murray's other books include "What It Means to Be a Libertarian" (1997), "Human Accomplishment" (2003), "In Our Hands" (2006), and "Real Education" (2008). His 2012 book, "Coming Apart" (Crown Forum, 2012), describes an unprecedented divergence in American classes over the last half century. His most recent book is "By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission" (Crown Forum, 2015).

We say getting 'woke' to political correctness is like being in the Matrix and taking the BLUE pill to stay sleeping, not the RED pill to wake up—the CW. Mainstream media, liberal colleges and Hollywood all buy the lies and racism of the PC farce and they are all wrong

"Getting woke is like being in the Matrix and taking the red pill. You get a sudden understanding of what's really going on and find out you were wrong about much of what you understood to be truth," according to MathPolice. Even though that is a hip definition of woke, we say they have it exactly backwards, and the word is not a byword for social awareness but lack of it. So "woke" equals naive. Getting "woke" to political correctness is like being in the Matrix and taking the blue pill. The mainstream media, the liberal colleges and Hollywood all buy the lies and racism of the PC farce and they are all wrong. Their CW (conventional wisdom) is wrong. A woke person to us is someone who has dismissed the PC farce as a gigantic error of white-guilt-saturated liberals, who've managed to infect the mainstream media, the liberal colleges and Hollywood because they fell for the foolish white guilt scam.

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