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2.16 Finding Racism Everywhere
Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp is a professor of Heritage Studies. She said the assumption that milk was a key part of the human diet 'may be understood as a white supremacist one', you can read about her justification for this craziness here. She was actually awarded British taxpayer money to research this idea. My question is if you think chocolate milk is an important part of the diet is that supremacist too? (bad joke)
On September 23, 2014, National Geographic published an article by Martha Hamilton titled "Colorful World of Birding Has Conspicuous Lack of People of Color." The gist: birdwatching is racist.
Danusha Goska a birdwatcher from Paterson New Jersey mentioned the National Geographic allegation in an online discussion list dedicated to birding. She said that she found the article "off base." Rick Wright, author of The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey, informed her that he would henceforth block any messages by her. Others sent insults. Rather than saying, "We have a Paterson birdwatcher. Let's dialogue," the senders of abusive emails decided, "You disagreed with a liberal on race. You must be insulted and silenced."
Danusha Goska wrote an article called The Woke War on Birdwatching. I have included a few paragraphs from that article below.
I first learned of the Woke assault on Birdwatching back in 2014. “National Geographic Alleges that Birdwatching Is Racist,” was my first, and, I naively thought, my final attempt to address the hysteria. The accusations of racism have only grown since then.
Not just birdwatching is racist. In the 2021 article, “The Unbearable Whiteness of Camping,” Elizabeth Segran reports that “racism” and “colonialism” have made it impossible for non-whites to camp. “The Great Outdoors Was Made for White People,” reported The Nation, also in 2021. On June 18, 2023, Char Adams at NBC News alleged that black people who attempt to camp require protection from “Trump flags flying everywhere.” Those frightened by Trump flags have joined “The Outdoorsy Black Women” network, with fifteen chapters nationwide. Adams reports that her own family and friends dismiss camping as “white people stuff.”
Hiking is racist. “The Unbearable Whiteness of Hiking” was the headline of a 2016 Sierra Club article. “Decentering Whiteness in Hiking and Fostering Inclusivity Outdoors” appeared in January, 2023. “White People Like Hiking” was a peer-reviewed, 2016 article.
Kayaking is racist. “If you Paddle a Canoe, You Might Be Racist?” outdoors enthusiasts asked after Professor Misao Dean alleged that kayaking and canoeing are cultural appropriation. Hunting is racist. “Is Hunting Too White?” hunters asked in 2019. “Where Are All the Hunters of Color?” The Nature Conservancy asked in 2022. “Notes From an Angry Black Hunter: Guns, Genocide, and the Stolen Ground You ‘Own'” is a rant from a self-described “Angry Black Hunter” who is sick to death of America and Americans because “in the United States, the story of the land is written in the blood of native people and centuries of forced labor by kidnapped Africans.”
Fishing is racist. Angling Trade is “Reading the Water for Racism in Fishing,” according to a 2020 article. The organization entitled Brown Folks Fishing promoted the Angling for All Pledge. “White males” choose “racist” names for fish, scholars at the University of California, Davis, reported in 2021.
Environmentalism, the very effort to preserve the environment, is racist. The New Yorker exposed “Environmentalism’s Racist History” in 2015. “The Environmental Movement Is Very White; These Leaders Want to Change That,” National Geographic mourned in 2020.
Walking your dog is racist. “Every Dog Walk Is an Opportunity for Casual Racism,” Medium reported in 2020. “Being black in America means having an ‘Is This Racist’ algorithm running in the recesses of our minds. This process is carried out by the part of our brain that manages breathing and heartbeat,” wrote Shane Paul Neil, who relates dog walking to white supremacy. In Mother Jones’ 2020 piece “Let’s Make Dog Parks Less Racist,” black woman Jamilah King writes, ” I hate most dog parks: They’re so unbearably, unapologetically white … I started asking friends … if they went to dog parks. Two were Black, one was Puerto Rican. Every single person said they just didn’t feel comfortable. It was always too white.” And of course your dog is racist; black dog experts share their wisdom here.
If this is all just too much, and you just want to go out under the night sky and gaze up at the stars, just acknowledge that you are racist. The term “black hole” racializes astronomy, Cornell University teaches its students. Astrophysics is racist according to Professor Natalie Gosnell. Sky and Telescope did its part by voicing “unequivocal support for Black Lives Matter.” Because of the obvious racism inherent in stargazing, “It’s no secret that backyard astronomers are overwhelmingly white,” Sky and Telescope confessed.
If you in your white fragility are so overwhelmed by being forced to confront your inner systemic racist, and you just want to retreat to your home and focus on your garden – yes yes you know what I’m going to say, don’t you? GARDENING IS RACIST. “Weeding Out Horticulture’s Race Problem: Even in the Garden, There’s Bigotry to Be Found,” The Guardian revealed in 2020. Gardeners are “seemingly friendly and mild-mannered.” Only a naive fool would be taken in by that facade. In 2014, a gardeners’ radio show, “Gardeners’ Question Time,” was revealed to be “‘layered with, saturated with, racial meanings’ … gardening and its lexicon are vehicles for racism and nationalism … According to Dr. Ben Pitcher … the use of common gardening terms like ‘soil purity,’ ‘native species,’ and ‘non-native (or ‘invasive’) species’ encourages racist, xenophobic attitudes.” Garden plants are racist. Wisteria, a popular flowering vine, has been condemned as racist.
All of this may make you want to just not go outside at all. To just stay home. But be aware that the very concept of the home is racist. See here, here, here.
And of course birdwatching is racist. To remedy birdwatching’s white supremacy, names had to be expunged, and replaced with glorious, new, Woke names. Birds, you see, were named by or after white people. Zach Schwartz-Weinstein writes, “The ornithological practice of naming species after dead white people … is fundamentally an index of ornithology’s complicity with the history of European imperialism and settler colonialism.” “Inside the Movement to Abolish Colonialist Bird Names,” cheered Outside magazine in 2021. Stripping the names of birds would make racist birdwatching “inclusive,” reported National Public Radio in 2021: “To Make Birding Inclusive, Some Birds Will Need New Names Without Colonial Roots.”
Disney has decided that many of its own movies are racist. One of them in which the main character is black and is the hero of the movie was called Song of the South. Disney decided that movie was racist and wouldn't release video cassettes or DVDs of Song of the South in the United States and wouldn't stream it either.
Amazon bought MGM studios which owns the James Bond franchise but because Amazon is woke and wants to change the British spy hero, James Bond into a black woman among other things the originator of the series, Barbara Broccoli, won't allow it and so no new Bond movies are being made. Robert Spencer wrote a great essay about this, I've included a few lines from his essay below.
Bond, in all his incarnations from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, has been white. And that’s just the beginning of his sins. He is most decidedly not gay. He doesn’t believe in body positivity. He is not trans: for all his interest in women, clearly has no interest in becoming one. He is just the opposite of a whining victim: he is a joyful rogue who doesn’t take himself too seriously but always comes out on top. He drinks alcohol, with no concern about the burden he may one day be on the healthcare system. ...To the horror of leftists everywhere, he doesn’t need any government assistance. Yet he is not anti-government; in fact, he is in the employ of the British government, which has a history of colonialism, instead of working on behalf of the oppressed brown peoples of the world.
The British did colonize but that colonization was not always bad, sometimes they ended barbaric customs in the places they colonized.
The left censors or changes movies that portray traditional Western values in a positive way. The left hates everything about America and the West and labels everything as racist in order to spread that hate toward America and the West and to gain power over those who they say are hateful people. Those who argue with them they silence as Rick Wright did to Danusha Goska. Leftists don't believe in free speech, they just believe in power and tearing down others and silencing others to get power.
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