The racism the woke set won’t talk about

Apr 10, 2022 by

by Brendan O’Neill, spiked:

‘Silence is Violence’, said Black Lives Matter and its army of media cheerleaders in the tumultuous summer of 2020. In their mind, anyone who stayed schtum about anti-black racism was complicit in it. If you failed to take the knee or put a black square on your Instagram page or faithfully mouth BLM’s political platitudes, then you were an aider and abetter of violence against people of colour. Does this still hold? Is it still the case that saying nothing about racism amounts to supporting racism? If so, then the very same woke activists who spent the past two years saying ‘Silence is Violence’ should turn themselves over to the cops, because racist attacks have spiked horribly in the US in recent weeks and they have uttered not a word about it.

[…]  You haven’t heard about these attacks? Your social-media feed hasn’t filled up with expressions of sympathy or anger? You haven’t seen anyone take the knee for the victims? Well, that might have something to do with who the victims were. The 67-year-old woman punched in the face 125 times is Chinese-American. ‘Asian bitch’, her racist assaulter said as he spat and stomped on her. The young man brutalised in Brooklyn is Jewish. A Hasidic Jew, to be precise. These are not fashionable or favourable victims according to the woke ideology. They place very low indeed in the hierarchy of racial victimhood constructed by the woke elites. Jews, we’re constantly told, enjoy ‘white privilege’. They’re hyper-white, according to some accounts, so how can they be sympathetic victims of racial hatred? As for Asians, they enjoy ‘honorary whiteness’, apparently. We frequently hear about ‘the whitening of Asian Americans’. In short, they’re privileged, and thus suspect – or at least not as deserving of solidarity as other, apparently more oppressed groups.

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