Welcome to my daily political musings. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back and enjoy!
Laura Loomer and Marge Greene are exchanging ideas about whether it would be a good idea for Ms. K to install a call center in the White House. Of course, Ms Loomer made that snide remark. In the ranks of MAGAphilia, she is applauded for such snide-ness. Ms. Greene took umbrage at such racism. I was not aware that MAGAphilia had become such a large tent that it’s no longer necessary for individual MAGAites to be overtly racist as long as they carry a Super White Card.
Ms. Loomer does not find it necessary or expedient to hide her disdain for anyone who does not have her prerequisite life experiences and ample bank account. Ms Greene is, more often than not, notably racist herself. But apparently, Ms Greene’s racism is limited to black people. Brown people are tolerable.
You know what makes this a story for me? The profoundly juvenile nature of this argument about the proper measure of racism which is appropriate for genteel society ladies. I may be guilty of insulting genteel society ladies with this proclamation, so please forgive me if you belong to the genteelly offended demographic, but I really do not have a better way of naming those two folks.
I will not miss these dinosaur-like holdovers from the 50s segregated South, even if the holdovers have migrated to other parts of the country. I get that it makes people “feel” good somehow to say racist things to and about other people. But I have to wonder exactly what is the physical sensation they feel when they make those statements. I’ve been paying attention to that “feeling” statement for a number of years now and I have never seen anything touch anyone in those exchanges.
Because of this, I have to consider that those “feelings” are self-generated and aren’t physical sensations at all. What the brain registers are mentally logged as actual physical sensations to be sure, and to the brain, those “feelings” are real.
My question is this. If those prejudicial “feelings” are real for you, do you really want to use them to excite the same feelings in those to whom your prejudices are aimed? What would happen if they carried the same “feelings” as you? Would you be likely to become more entrenched in those “feelings” if someone were directing word bombs your way designed precisely to incite those “feelings” in you? That’s a never-ending story.
Ask the Bosnians and Chechens. They held on to those “feeling” until there were not enough of either side left to care any more.
How about if we do like Rumi said? What if we go out beyond right doing and wrong doing and just understand that everyone has a right to see the world according to their experiences? But it is not alright to count any perceived experience as less valuable than my own.