Every non-liberal leftist– that is, almost every Democrat running for president, New York Times and Washington Post writer, CNN and MSNBC host, and your left-wing brother-in-law– labels every Trump fan and, obviously, President Donald Trump, a “racist.”
And they do not stop there. Leftists do not just identify the half of the country that supports the president “racist,” they identify all whites and America itself “racist.” If your daughter or son goes to or just recently attended an American university, it is close to particular she or he was repeatedly informed that America and all whites are racist. According to the left, whites are divided between those who confess they are racist and those who don’t admit it.Every conservative and numerous liberals know this is a big lie. The great question is: Do leftists think it? It is impossible to know. But this we do know: If you repeat something typically enough, and if your Weltanschauung(worldview )which which provides your life significance depend on thinking something, you will eventually think it.So here is a way to show it is a lie.Ask any white conservative, including one who supports Trump, the following three concerns:1)Do you have more in typical with, and are you personally more comfy in the business of, a white leftist or a black conservative? 2)Would you rather have 9 white leftists or 9 black conservatives on the U.S. Supreme
Court? 3) Would you rather your child marry a black Christian conservative or a white non-Christian liberal?A white racist would choose the whites in each case.I have actually asked these questions of thousands of Trump advocates at lectures and on
my radio show. Not once has a white Trump-supporting conservative said he or she would be more comfortable in the existence of a white leftist than a black conservative, or would choose an all-white liberal Supreme Court to an all-black conservative Supreme Court. Not as soon as has a white Christian conservative said she or he would choose their child wed a white non-Christian liberal to a black Christian conservative.If you’re a truthful leftist, this ought to provide an effective obstacle to your belief that all white conservatives are racist.But it won’t. Leftists have excessive at stake to challenge the fact about conservatives. Whatever the left has ever believed has actually depended upon lying about opponents. From the day Stalin identified Trotsky– who acted as the
head of the Red Army and who, together with Lenin, founded the Bolshevik Party– a”fascist,”leftists have lied about their opponents.Some liberals lie and some conservatives lie, however the fact is both a liberal and conservative worth. It has actually never ever been a left-wing worth. Any leftist who would commit himself to the reality would cease being a leftist. He would either become an
anti-left liberal or an anti-left conservative.”America is racist.””Whites are racist. “” Trump advocates are racist. “These are all big lies.So, then, given how important it is to leftists to keep the lie of conservative racism– in addition to xenophobia, misogyny, transphobia and Islamophobia–
how would they rebut conservatives’ answers to these questions? Presumably, they would argue that every conservative who reacts to these questions as I described is lying.But these questions are necessary– no matter how much leftists overlook or dismiss them– because they carry out an essential service for conservatives.I understand this from Jewish history. There was a lot Jew-hatred in the medieval
Christian world that Jews sometimes questioned if there was any truth to the attacks on them.
When an entire society denigrates a group, members of the denigrated group start wondering whether any of the attacks on them have any truth. When the charge of blood libel– that Jews killed Christian kids to utilize their blood to bake matzos for Passover– occurred, it freed Jews from taking any of the anti-Semites’attacks seriously. Every Jew knew the blood libel was a lie– Jews never ever consumed animal blood, not to mention human blood.Every conservative understands his actions to these 3 concerns are genuine and real, so these concerns can help conservatives come to see the left’s charge of conservative racism as middle ages Jews pertained to see the anti-Semites’blood libel charge: as a lie.Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in April 2018, is” The Reasonable Bible,
“a commentary on the book of Exodus. He is the founder of Prager University and might be called at dennisprager.com.
