Liberals' Buffet of Discrimination

     Urban legend says that you will not find a more inclusive, more tolerant warm fuzzy animal than the American leftist. Champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Constantly standing on the highest of high moral grounds, fighting to make sure that the world is fair and just for all those around him/her/they/them/ze/zer etc….. So, it becomes really confusing when, in the same week, those same inclusive tolerant liberals put on display, several examples of the very exclusion and discrimination that they constantly lecture the rest of us about. But as usual, they never have enough self-awareness to realize how they have refuted themselves yet again.

     Last Friday, nine student organizations at the University of California Berkeley, including the Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine created “Jewish-free zones,” declaring that they would not invite speakers to speak to their groups that, “expressed interest, and continue to hold views, host, sponsor, or promote events in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine.” The move by the student groups was exposed in an Op-Ed by UC-Berkeley alumnus and former Trump administration official Kenneth Marcus in the Jewish Journal. Interestingly, this would exclude Erwin Chemerinsky the Dean of the Law School these students attend, who is himself Jewish. Chemerinsky had this to say about the announcement by the student groups, “It is troubling to broadly exclude a particular viewpoint from being expressed. Taken literally, this would mean that I could not be invited to speak because I support the existence of Israel, though I condemn many of its policies.” While on its face, it is of course a hideous discriminatory statement, but is laced with irony. To find that irony, let’s look at the other student groups who adopted this measure.

     The Berkeley Law Muslim Student Association. It might be a safe guess that around this same time of year, 21 years ago to be exact, these were the same people who no doubt attended rallies and marches to fight against discrimination against…Muslims. The Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association. Again, attended the same marches and rallies after 9/11. Twenty years ago, discrimination was something that should be fought, what changed? The Womxn of Color Collective, Queer Caucus, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, among others also adopted the measure. Unfortunately, many people in those groups have, more than likely, faced discrimination at some point in their lives. Can they explain why anti-Semitism is ok, but the kind of discrimination they may have faced was not?

     In his Op-Ed, Marcus wrote, “These exclusions reflect the changing face of campus antisemitism. The highest profile incidents are no longer just about toxic speech, which poisons the campus environment. Now anti-Zionist groups target Jewish Americans directly.” Marcus may have a point. In March of this year, Duke University student government funded the appearance of a speaker who called those who support the existence of Israel, “fascists, terrorists, and colonizers.” He called Zionism a “death cult,” “murderous, genocidal, and sadistic.” Those horrific words, spoken to any other group of people on a college campus, would automatically be deemed hate speech. Why isn’t it when those words are hurled at Jews?

     In the same week tolerant inclusive liberal student organizations deemed Jews unacceptable, the state of Florida experienced one of the most destructive and deadliest hurricanes in its history. As of this writing, the death toll stands at 99. People have lost homes, and everything they own. Businesses have been destroyed, and many will have to restart their lives with what they could escape their homes with before moving to higher ground and safety. It will be a long, slow, and painful process for many Floridians.

But Americans are a hearty bunch. We help each other out in times of need. And Americans have stepped up to help where they can in Florida. They haven’t stopped to see race, color, economic background, political persuasion, or anything else. They just jumped in. But that is ordinary average Americans. Politicians are different, especially liberal politicians. Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is famous (or infamous) for saying, “never let a crisis go to waste.” Today’s Democrats certainly make a valiant attempt not to do that. If there is a crisis they can politicize, racialize, or better yet, both, you can bet they will certainly give it a whirl. Vice President Kamala Harris stepped up in the latest attempt to make the devastation brought by hurricane Ian, believe it or not, a race problem.

     While millions of Floridians were still without power and trying to gather up their valuables that lay in the rubble that was once their homes, Harris had this to say, “It is our lowest income communities, and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making. And so, we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out in the same place.” But as monstrous as that was, she couldn’t stop herself and added, “and if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities and do that work.”

What the latest Harris word salad means, is that, if you have two people, one white and one black, who have the same size house, and both those houses are leveled, well, if you are the white guy, you must go to the back of the line. Not because you are any more or less deserving, you are just the wrong color. Does Kamala Harris not realize that people of all colors and incomes are dead?! The level of racism dripping from these sentiments is simply mind boggling, and truly evil. But when you are obsessed with race the way the Democrat party is, you find nothing wrong with this thought process.

     When you look at it, Democrats and the left really are tolerant. Whether it is antisemitism or straight up racism, there is something for them all.