Invited onstage, a white woman simply sings Kendrick Lamar’s lyrics, which is a cardinal sin… for a white person.
The Racial Culture War is being fought in the trenches of grammar.
Grammar is a weapon, a nexus of power.
The N-word moves from being a word with a complicated history to being a totem, a talismanic signifier of identity, closed off to others.
Collectively, we can sense in the air a Coming Era where certain people (white people) saying certain words is not only frowned upon socially, but becomes a crime (with the full force of the government standing behind the prohibition), as we are seeing happen in Britain today.
The instances are many: Michael Eric Dyson’s grunting and predatory taunting of Jordan Peterson (see 0:30 to 0:46, as well as elsewhere in this video), simply for uttering a phrase with the remotest possibility of being misinterpreted along PC grammar rules, is the same dynamic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tlIGAg1aiU
The speech utterance itself, regardless of context, becomes an assertion, confession, and ‘empirical’ proof of the speaker’s racism.
Throw the principle of charity out the window. It is itself a tool of the white supremacist cishet patriarchy.
Because society has capitulated on the N-word (Sidenote: it disgusts me that I myself feel compelled to say “N-word”, for rational fear of hassles & headaches I neither want nor need), the PC Brigade smells blood in the air, as well as a path to victory, so the dynamic naturally expands to wider domains of language.
“Meritocracy”? Racist.
“Objectivity”? Racist.
“The West”? Racist.
Ad infinitum.
