Author: David Cole
The views of the Authors are not necessarily the views of Enigmose.
Let’s start by acknowledging a simple fact: There is no black genocide in the U.S. Period. You can count the number of unarmed American blacks fatally shot by cops in 2019 on your fingers.
Again, there is no black genocide. Certainly not at the hands of cops or whites in general (and even the black-on-black death toll doesn’t rise to “genocide” levels).
Black activists and their media lackeys tell us the genocide is real. Kimberlé Crenshaw of the African American Policy Forum wrote in The New Republic last week that the “large scale death and destruction” visited upon blacks in this country by white cops and vigilante neighbors “falls squarely within the territory of genocide.” Ethnic-studies professor and BLM charlatan Dr. Andrea Moore routinely stresses in her media interviews that the entire point of Black Lives Matter is to combat “the genocide of Black people” at the hands of white cops. Charles Steele, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, initially claimed that reopening states too early in light of COVID was “black genocide,” but last week he pivoted and said that black genocide is actually caused by cops, not coronavirus.
As the Illinois News-Gazette pointed out last month, “Not too long ago, if you described African Americans as victims of genocide, people dismissed you as either a demagogue or demented. Not anymore. The allegation of genocide is no longer viewed as excessive or extremist.”
“White supremacist murder by police and vigilantes has ripped away the shroud shielding the United States’ genocidal policies,” the paper concluded.
Oddly, many conservatives, including several former friends of mine, seem irked by this genocide claim. “It’s not true!” they screech. “Yes, blacks have endured genuine hardships in this nation’s history, but that doesn’t mean there’s a genocide going on today! Look at the actual figures of police-involved killings; blacks are not being murdered in droves. We must examine the facts, not bow to emotion.”
You don’t say.
See, seven years ago I was banished from conservative circles for having been a “Holocaust denier” in my youth. The fact that I had never been any such thing was irrelevant. The Huffington Post and MSNBC called me “denier,” and that’s all that mattered. Friends turned their back on me, the GOP officially expelled me, and conservative website after website stood in line to pile on. The Washington Times called me “pure evil,” PJ Media called me “an offense to God,” and the American Spectator called me a “Jewish anti-Semite” who unleashed “uncomprehending horror” on the world.
True subtlety from our finest wordsmiths!
I tried to plead my case. I tried to explain that the points I made on national TV in the early 1990s were solidly based on facts and figures. I argued that much of what I’d said back then was and is confirmed by respected historians. “Please stop acting emotionally and look at the substance of my views,” I implored.
No dice. When it comes to genocide, those who fuss over the minor points of numbers and statistics are “minimizers.” Might there be one or two things “off” in the historical narrative of the Holocaust? Sure, but who cares? Genocide claims must be respected, not placed under a microscope.
How’s that working out for you now, conservatives? Most politicians from both parties, along with corporate America and 99% of the media, unquestioningly accept the claim that there is a genocidal plague of mass murder being visited upon blacks by whites (cops, “vigilantes,” etc.). Those who dispute that claim are attacked as racists and—oh my goodness—deniers!
My conservative pals are upset about this. “Don’t just accept the black genocide fallacy at face value,” they cry, “look at the numbers!” Black conservative Larry Elder is all in a tizzy because people aren’t viewing black death-by-cop stats “objectively” and without emotion. That’s the same Larry Elder who, until April 2013, was not only my good friend, but a business associate. When he threw me under the bus after my 20-year-old Holocaust comments resurfaced, he didn’t want to hear word one about “objective stats.” I had been accused of minimizing a genocide, so “objectivity” got tossed out the window.
And now Larry Elder and his buddies are the ones being called “genocide deniers.”
Serves them right. They helped create the environment that allowed this irrationality to metastasize. That’s why my specific case is instructive. Here, verbatim, is how the American Spectator paraphrased my supposedly insidious claims: “The Semitic death toll wasn’t 6 million, it was more like 3 or 4 million and, given the death toll of the war, that was hardly a drop in the bloody bucket. Moreover, the elimination of Jews wasn’t intentional. It was something that developed ad hoc as the conflict ground on.”
To be clear, there’s a big difference between the Holocaust and “black genocide.” There was a Holocaust, and there’s no black genocide. But what we’re seeing with the black genocide fiction is the exact same pandering, and the exact same factual “corner cutting,” ceded to the Holocaust. “So what if it was only 3 or 4 million killed? Just say 6 million…it’s the number the Jews prefer. And anyway, didn’t the Jews suffer regardless of the numbers?”
Okay, so what if it’s only nine or ten unarmed blacks killed by cops every year? Just say it’s a hundred, or a thousand; it’s the number BLM prefers. And anyway, haven’t blacks suffered regardless of the numbers?
Either numbers matter or they don’t. And if they don’t matter, they don’t matter for everybody, not just Jews. Full Story @ Taki's Magazine
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