Quiz: Racism

Racism is real. It’s what Ayn Rand called ‘the lowest form of collectivism’, because it’s a collective based not on ideas or values, but on appearances and nothing else...

It’s a form of ‘otherism’ that was so near death as to be declared mostly dead. But, like a zombie during the apocalypse, has been resurrected by collectivist thinkers bent on collective revenge.

Just as Original Sin leaves you feeling guilty about something you never did but apparently couldn’t help, so The New Racism demands that you emotionally suffer for something you didn’t do and cannot fix;

And as the guilt generated by Original Sin leaves you vulnerable to the prospect of whatever ‘out’ the church offers - redemption through the sacrifice of Jesus - so The New Racism demands that you accept the ‘out’ of divesting yourself of political, social, and economic power and hand it over to people you never deprived it of.

Collectivism in ALL its iterations is demoralizing and dehumanizing and is not the path to a more just and fair society.

Individualism is.

Individualism is the true anti racism because its premises are that people are not their immutable characteristics, but the sum of their choices.

The sooner we get back to understanding that racism is a choice, made by individual moral simpletons who speak and act only for themselves and not their racial group, the sooner we can throw the New Racism on the trash heap of history and get on with the business of judging each other by the content of our characters...not by the color of our skins or the historical failings of our ancestors.