Liberals are constantly calling conservatives racist. Well, to quote Inigo Montoya of The Princess Bride, “I don’t think that means what you think that means.”
The term “racist” is arguably the most often misused term in modern American English. According to Google, a racist is a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another, or, having or showing the belief that a particular race is superior to another. When in fact, most of the individuals who call another person a racist, they actually mean that the individual is a bigot. Again, returning to Google, they define a bigot as “a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinons.”
The difference being they don’t think they are better they just don’t like who/what they are bigoted about.
You may well be saying to yourself, “Farmboy, so what? What difference does it make?”
Well, I posit to you that if you are to use the term, you need to understand it and realize who the real racists are.
So, follow me here. I submit to you that today’s Liberals are the true racists in today’s society. Here are my points to bolster my position.
Here in the United States of America, where we have as our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights, everyone is created equal and endowed by their creators with inalienable rights.
So what then does that mean? It means that as legal citizens of this country, everyone has equal rights under the law.
If we are all equal under the law, than we should not create groups within our society to receive any special benefits or protections, for if we do, aren’t we then saying, “You, member of this specified group, are not capable of competing on an equal footing in this society.”
Isn’t that the very definition of being a racist? Saying to some group of individuals, you aren’t good enough to succeed in our society. So we, your superiors, will protect you and look out for you, so these individuals who ARE treating you as an equal and competing against you on an equal basis, won’t prevail over you.
I submit to you that it is in fact the modern Liberal who is the racist who has done the most harm to segmented groups by making them think of themselves as needing the help of their betters. This treatment of these groups has given them generations of thinking of themselves as not being able to compete on an equal basis. So much so that many in these communities have stopped even trying to compete and have now sat back and decided to wait for their overlords to provide for them.
Who then is the real racist? The conservative who believes everyone should compete on an equal basis and not be given special treatment? Or the Liberal who wants to segregate groups and treat them as if they were simpletons, unable to fend for themselves?
As for me, I’d rather compete on an equal basis and fail, than be thought incapable and given a hand out.
Or so it seems to an Old Farmboy.
