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Yes, these people are most certainly beyond parody. An actual headline in Thursday’s Los Angeles Times informs us that “White drivers are polluting the air breathed by L.A.’s people of color.” So now Whitey, whose perfidy simply knows no bounds, is breathing free and easy and leaving the poor people of color gasping for breath. Oh, when will the racism end?
L.A. Times staff writer Sammy Roth, who penned this nonsense, still proudly sports a mask in his Twitter photo, heedless of the fact that even Old Joe Biden’s COVID-19 czar has conceded that masks don’t do anything but make their wearers feel virtuous. Roth still feels guilty, however, because he is white, and thus “couldn’t help but consider [his] own complicity while reading a new study from USC researchers, finding that Angelenos who drive more tend to be exposed to less air pollution — and Angelenos who drive less tend to be exposed to more pollution.”
Yes, that seems counterintuitive, as anyone can attest who has ever been on the Los Angeles freeways, creeping along in the traffic and breathing in the exhaust fumes. But Roth is serious: “It may sound like a paradox, but it’s not. It’s a function of the racism that shaped this city and its suburbs, and continues to influence our daily lives — and a stark reminder of the need for climate solutions that benefit everyone.”
Okay. So people who drive less are exposed to more air pollution, and people who drive more are exposed to less air pollution, and this is all because of racism. Why? The real answer to that question is this: it’s racism because everything is racism these days. Air pollution is racist and there are alleged disparities in how much white people and racial minorities are exposed to it because there is an entire industry these days devoted to finding new sources of racism.
The L.A. Times published this article because finding new ways to attribute various inconveniences of life to racism fuels the race victimhood industry, exacerbates the divisions in American society that the Left wants to exploit to advance its agenda, and justifies all the blather about “systemic racism,” which means racism so subtle that no one ever actually noticed its existence until now.
Roth notes that the study that supposedly established all this “was published in the peer-reviewed journal Urban Studies.” This is supposed to establish its reliability, but in today’s Left-dominated academic environment, all manner of fool ideas get supported by supposedly reliable “studies” and are published in peer-reviewed journals. The academic establishment in America today is so far to the Left and so deeply corrupt that peer review is a guarantee only that fellow Leftists examined a given academic work and found it to be ideologically pure, not deviating from the establishment line.
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Siddi Nasrani says
The more I read about America & all the shenanigans that’s going on over the years, the more I am convinced that the lunatics are taking over the nation.
Kepha says
As an American, I can assure you that your observations are correct.
Jedothek says
Karl Popper, writing in about 1935, noted that folks who believe in the racial theory of history a re incurable, because their bias causes them to interpret everything in terms of race: thus every event confirms their theory. I wouldn’t want to say these people a re hopeless, but they’re hopeless. All we can do is to let adolescents know that there are other theories of society — to be found in old books.
Kepha says
OK. This does it. Uncle Kepha isn’t much into white guilt, but…
If you are so concerned about what happens to people of color, why aren’t you calling for the heads (metaphorically) of the sexual liberation crowd? They are especially interested in vulnerable young people of color as a pool from which to recruit those who provide their disgusting entertainments and objects of sexploitation.
somehistory says
If it’s because most poc don’t own cars, don’t drive, but must walk everywhere, thus breathing in pollution,
then why, for goodness sake, did bo have that thingy about turning in older cars…”clunkers” that wern’t….thus lessening chances for poor people to own a car?
and why is biden making driving so much more expensive, as in destroying the oil industry, and forcing people to at least consider buying those very expensive electric cars, so that fewer poor will have cars and fuel to get around?
People in other countries who own cars and pollute, are not going to stop driving even if people in America do. And pollution moves with the wind, going where the wind goes.
In NYC, they have passed a law that is causing everyone who lives there in a building, to have to pay fines and or have major upgrades to their heating/cooling systems…greatly affecting poor people who rent apartments. Rents are already rising….above $5000 for an apartment in Manhattan…and some of them look fairly ratty from the outside.
It isn’t White people who are racist….it’s those who are currently sitting in the seats of government…and those who are using race to fuel their own hatreds.
gravenimage says
Now Whitey Is Hogging All the Fresh Air
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Just absurd–you really cannot parody this stuff any more.