Next up, sleep redistribution.
As someone currently running on four hours of sleep, I don’t blame systemic racism for my lack of sleep. I credit my decisions. That’s the adult response. For the childish perpetual victimhood response, there’s always the Left.
The Left claims that it follows “science”. Its version of science is the one familiar to cultists and conspiracy theorists. It involves reducing all the complexities of life to a prime cause. It used to be capitalism. In America, class was replaced by race and then sundry bigotries intersectionally classed under “privilege”.
Everything used to be caused by capitalism. Now capitalism is just a manifestation of cis-hetero white privilege. And so is everything else. Like sleep.
Not getting enough sleep? You may be a victim of racism.
Lots of people struggle to get enough sleep — and the responsibility for fixing the problem tends to fall on the individual. Experts offer advice like reducing screen time, exercising more, or just going to bed earlier in the evening.
But many restless nights can’t be solved with blackout curtains, ear plugs, or other typical suggestions. On average, Black adults in the U.S. get poorer sleep than white adults — often for reasons outside of their control. A growing number of experts argue that in order to address such racial disparities, health professionals need to start discussing sleep within the complex tapestry of a person’s life and surroundings.
That amounts to telling people with sleep issues that their real problem isn’t their habits, it’s racism.
This is part of a larger social justice push underway in medicine to roll everything into its political agenda, discourage people from making lifestyle adjustments, like eating less, and instead organize them and radicalize them to advocate for leftist agendas.
“The fundamental cause of sleep inequities is structural racism.”
The fundamental cause of structural racism is a conspiracy theory about its existence that requires pushing critical race theory and other forms of hate.
Now maybe leftists can discuss how to redistribute sleep.
“For example, chronic poor sleep increases the odds of developing conditions including obesity, hypertension, and diabetes, all of which are more prevalent in Black populations. Each of those conditions then further increase the chances someone will have poorer sleep; someone with diabetes, for example, might get up more often in the night because high blood sugar can make people need to urinate more frequently.”
Should you eat less for better sleep? Nah, just fight the power while knowing that nothing you do really makes a difference because of systemic racism.
commonsense says
Maybe a significant number of blacks are sleep-deprived because of street noise from drive-by shootings, midnight basketball games, domestic disputes, and gang members partying outdoors at all hours.
Bud says
I live outside of DC in NoVa now, but grew up in nearby Prince George’s County, MD. Last census I believe the black population of PG Co (what we’ve always called it, but is not PC these days) is better than 65% with the highest per capita income among blacks for any county in the US. Many in the County are Federal employees. They have all of the same advantages and disadvantages of anyone else living in the Greater Metropolitan DC area.
tim gallagher says
Well, of course it is “racism” that causes lack of sleep. It is also “racism” that causes schizophrenia, all forms of psychosis, all types of cancer and heart disease and every other problem that makes human life less perfect than it used to be back in the Garden of Eden. Probably it was “racism”, the cause of all wrongs, that led Adam and Eve to be thrown out of paradise and caused human life to go downhill from perfection. What else could it be? Seriously, this thing where some people see “racism” as being the cause of all problems is itself an illness. If you look at everything through a certain prism, why dreaded “racism” is behind every ill that dogs humanity. There is so much bullshit being peddled these days and seeing “racism” everywhere is one of the major forms this bullshit takes.
CogitoErgoSum says
Maybe it’s because black people are not adapted to living in parts of the Earth where white people are better adapted to live. It’s called natural selection.
wpm says
The lack of sleep in the hood racism? I was an emergency worker for over 30 years in NYC in the projects at 3 am it is normal to see everyone out and about including children as young as 5 it is a lack of structure ,it is a cultural thing. ,Like fast food ,no one says you have to be up at 3 am on a school night that it might effect your performance at school or “work” the next day? Who knew stuffing you face with junk food could lead to health problems ,it is all racist and not about life choices or lack of any structure or real goals in life .I have been doing shift work I have had sleep problems my whole life it has nothing to do with my race.
Westman says
Has anyone noticed that many Chinese restaurants have servers who only speak memorized English phrases because they are recently arrived and working off their passage? Who could be more of a minority and have worries that might interfere with sleep? Where are the cries of racism?
I also notice that there are no corpulent workers or owners at Chinese restaurants though often a fat statue is found somewhere on the premises. They can sleep, because they are genuinely tired.
Obesity is usually the result of bad habits such as eating fast food and lack of exercise. This is not a racial problem, it’s a cultural problem that can’t be changed by wealth transfer. It was wealth transfer that created dependency in that great “new slavery” state of California.
Systematic wealth transfer to minorities is, in fact, an insidious form of racism that declares, “You’re unable to take care of yourself. We can continue to feel superior if you’ll just take our constant handout.” And it is pushed by liberal political entities to buy votes and an extended constituency.
The race hustlers never stop their promotions because, with it, they can gain power among the dependent while never improving the culture. Race hustling is a permanently profitable occupation.
James Lincoln says
Westman says,
“Race hustling is a permanently profitable occupation.”
Absolutely true – just ask Al Sharpton.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I have been getting a lot of extra sleep lately, Daniel. I’m more than happy to redistribute that to you. But not only do we need sleep communism: we also need hair communism. I’m a clean-shaven bald guy looking w/ envy at people w/ 80’s style hair, who’ve now also started showing off w/ their footlong beards. We need to institute a committee for the redistribution of all that great hair to have-nots such as I. Can that be thrown into the $1.7T omnibus budget?
Scotsman48 says
When people use the word…racism… they automatically think about white folks mistreating black people as if only whites do any oppression and black are always oppressed,where are, heads up folks, other Races of people in the World and when I hear back folks scream about racism I tell them that success is the best revenge., but you do exactly what people said that you do, thats nothing of value and blame everybody for the situation you created for yourself…
They say Im racist for saying such a thing.
Just stay stuck in your crap and don’t take any responsibility for your own actions.
Slavery has gone through every Century.
Just take a good look at the average Pimp,black, running his whores, white, treating them like dogs, or well trained slave dogs… I call that racism with a Capital R.