It was always there, just beneath the surface. Late radio giant Rush Limbaugh called it get-even-with-’em-ism. It’s that hostility that ever underlay racial quotas and that now, being more overt, is manifesting itself in “the largest racial tracking bureaucracy since the fall of Nazi Germany.”
That’s how Fox News host Tucker Carlson characterized Joe Biden’s new “equity”-oriented executive order (number 13985), signed Thursday and mostly ignored every day. It protects and elevates all conceivable groups in the United States — except one.
If you guessed “Straight white men,” go to the head of the class.
That is, unless you’re a straight white man. Then you can sit in the back of the of the electric, carbon-neutral bus to East Palestine.
One more thing: Coincidentally, I’m sure, straight white men are also the major demographic that is perhaps least likely to support Democrats.
Carlson reported on the story Friday, saying:
Joe Biden institutes a government-wide system of racial discrimination that dwarfs Jim Crow and nobody seems to notice. It happened yesterday, by the way. Did you know that? Probably not, because there was no press conference or signing ceremony, no media coverage, but 24 hours ago, it happened.
Biden restructured the entire executive branch of the U.S. government to discriminate on the basis of immutable characteristics. He made that announcement on the White House website and it proclaims that within 30 days, every federal agency — all of them from the Department of Justice to NASA to the Social Security Administration, all of them — all must “ensure” that they have an agency equity team within their respective agencies to coordinate the implementation of equity initiatives, and these Maoist equity teams will report to something called the Gender Policy Council and the White House “environmental justice officer.” Does the environmental justice officer carry a sidearm? We don’t know, actually.
We do know that running all of this, which is the largest racial tracking bureaucracy since the fall of Nazi Germany, will be former President Barack Obama, and he’ll be doing that as always through his long-time lackey and cut-out Susan Rice. Rice’s goal, the goal of the entire initiative, is to place the federal government, all of it, in opposition to a very specific slice of the American population — not a foreign population; our own population. Here’s how it works: Every single person in the United States will qualify for one of Joe Biden’s many protected categories except straight white men.
So, we’re all in this together, except those guys who are on the outs. It’s all of us versus them, straight white men. They will not be protected because they are, by virtue of being straight and white and male, the cause of the problem. They’re the enemy.
That’s right, you’re “a domestic enemy now,” Carlson later added. “You’re an English-speaking version of Vladimir Putin. The equity agenda is your personal sanctions regime.”
By the way, as WhiteHouse.gov invites us to do on its executive order fact sheet, I wanted to “read more about additional [equity] steps agencies have taken.” But upon clicking on their link, I got a “403 Forbidden” page. I’m no techie and am not sure why my access was denied, but maybe someone who’s not a straight white male should try it.
That would include Ben LaBolt, who, White House press secretary Karine Jean Pierre boasted recently, “will be the first openly gay communications director, which is very, very important indeed,” related Carlson. She didn’t explain why it’s important — or even why offering homosexuals affirmative action is justifiable, since they make more money than straight men do.
Oh, yeah, “equity.”
Speaking of the illustrious Ms. Jean Pierre, she exemplifies the consequences of subordinating merit to equity (see video below).
But forget Canadia, because here in Americania we’ve got plenty of examples of “firsts,” not the least of which is the first president with dementia. There’s also Kamala Harris, who on Friday served up one of her (in)famous word salads (video below).
(A thought: Just as you look thinner when surrounding yourself with fat people, perhaps Biden has found the secret to seeming relatively articulate in senility’s midst.)
Next there’s Karen Decker, Biden’s top-ranking U.S. diplomat assigned to Afghanistan. Perhaps in the spirit of Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar’s statement that on 9/11 “some people did something,” she described Abraham Lincoln as someone who “did some stuff” in a series of now-deleted tweets (below) that really are something to see.
(Hat tip: American Thinker.)
It’s easy making fun of these people (and far be it from me to do such a thing!). In reality, however, not all of them lack brainpower, though some do. There also are, of course, intelligent, mature people from their demographics who could occupy their roles (e.g., Candace Owens instead of Jean Pierre). Rather, aside from the problems inherent in putting equity before merit, there’s another factor:
Being defined by rejection of virtue, leftists generally lack the virtue of Diligence; meaning, they don’t take pains to ferret out Truth and educate themselves (no matter how many degrees one has, a truly erudite person has gotten most of his education outside of school). Also correlating with this is that leftists are morally, emotionally, and spiritually stunted; overgrown children. One consequence is that they place a premium on being “cool” and think it is cool to speak like adolescents — ergo, Lincoln “did some stuff.”
In other words, many liberals, the pseudo-elite variety especially, are what you get when crossing a nerd’s physicality with a dumb jock’s mentality.
Expect more of this, too, with the rise of equity social engineers, people who’d rather serve us up a man-made hell than reign with white males in Heaven.
For those interested, Carlson’s Friday segment is below.
