Now look at his list. Black English, Asian English, Mixed English, “etc.” Every item is a prefix bolted onto English. English on its own never appears, and White English, the one I asked him about directly, is left out. I don’t think that was a slip. It’s what happens when a clever man has absorbed the official grammar of British ethnicity, the grammar in which English is not a people but a suffix, a flavour that attaches to the real categories. In that grammar the one group with no prefix is the one group that never gets named, because to name it would be to concede that it exists as a people at all rather than as the plain paper everyone else is printed on. Something that cannot, ever be allowed.
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That’s the key line here.
So much intellectual effort expended on all sides to avoid one race using words that have become unsayable, because “racist.”
The fact that all other races can safely speak those same concepts prove to me that we’re not so much afraid of “racial bigotry and hate” as we are of historical economic advantages and attainments having been legitimately gained.
The true racism lies in “you can’t say that!” So long as things cannot be said, we can only skirt the real discussions.
I suppose that makes me racist, but in my advanced years I’m becoming more comfortable with that concept, because it’s all a matter of definition, and I think the current definition is agenda-driven crap.