‘Freedom’ now deemed a white supremacist notion

By Eric Utter, AM THINKER

Taylor Dysart, a doctoral candidate at Penn, authored a column in which she claimed that the Canadian truckers’ Freedom Convoy “has surprised onlookers in the United States and Canada,” in large part “because the action seems to violate norms of Canadian ‘politeness.’“  She then opined, “But the convoy represents the extension of a strain of Canadian history that has long masked itself behind ‘peacefulness’ or ‘unity’: settler colonialism.” Huh?

Sadly, she wasn’t done. She stated, “The history of Canadian settler colonialism and public health demonstrates how both overt white-supremacist claims and seemingly more inert nationalistic claims about ‘unity’ and ‘freedom’ both enable and erase ongoing harm to marginalized communities.” Huh?

She added, “The primarily White supporters of the Freedom Convoy argue that pandemic mandates infringe upon their constitutional rights to freedom. The notion of ‘freedom’ was historically and remains intertwined with Whiteness, as historian Tyler Stovall has argued. The belief that one’s entitlement to freedom is a key component of White supremacy. This explains why the Freedom Convoy members see themselves as entitled to freedom, no matter the public health consequences to those around them.”

Yes, how dare the Freedom Convoy members think they are “entitled” to freedom! It’s not like they have inalienable rights granted by their Creator or something! They only have the rights that the government says they have…or don’t have! Period. Leftists somehow believe they are entitled to determine what freedom other people have. Revolting assumed privilege.

“Public health consequences?” We have seen the consequences of being locked down and enslaved for all of history. And they are despair, disease, and death.

Dysart referenced Stovall because his book, “White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea,” supports her insane belief that the notion of freedom is actually racist.  The book discusses “how the Statue of Liberty—a gift from France to the United States and perhaps the most famous symbol of freedom on Earth—promised both freedom and whiteness to European immigrants.” So, Lady Liberty is racist, too. And probably sexist. (I always suspected her.)

The assertion that one’s “entitlement to freedom” is a “key component of White supremacy” seems illogical at best. Slaves in the American South dreamed of freedom, cherished freedom, and believed they were entitled to it, and I’m pretty sure most of them weren’t White Supremacists.

Come to think of it, I doubt that Martin Luther King thought he was giving a shout out to White Supremacy when he joyously spoke of a day when Black people were “Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

But, as Mark Steyn recently noted, “Physical lockdown seems to have inculcated in the citizenry a psychological lockdown that will be far harder to lift.” He referenced a CBC show, Cross-Country Check-Up, to which he said “the word ‘freedom’” itself “is now suspect.”

According to Steyn, the host(s) of the nation-wide open-line radio show opined:

As demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions continue across Canada, the word freedom is on the lips and placards of many protesters. Often associated with protests and rallies in the United States, the term has taken hold among protesters who are part of the Freedom Convoy, which rolled into Ottawa in late January and has become entrenched in the city’s downtown.

For many, freedom is a malleable term — one that’s open to interpretation. That flexibility, in part, has fueled its growth among certain groups, said Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at the Oshawa-based Ontario Tech University. It’s also a term that has thrived among far-right groups, said Perry, one of a number of experts who say the presence of far-right groups in Canada is growing.

Freedom is a “malleable” term/concept? I’m pretty sure the slaves on Southern plantations and those held in German concentration camps or Japanese prisons during World War II would disagree.

Freedom has “thrived” among “far-right” groups? Freedom is a far-right notion? No wonder far-right groups have grown.

It has come to this. As George Orwell knew it could. Freedom is fascist. Freedom is slavery.

If freedom is now considered problematic by the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, no one can tell me we aren’t in real trouble.

But many apparently now do consider a love of freedom an example of Hate, Bias and Extremism. For example, students and faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) have demanded a new mask mandate be put in place after the statewide mandate was recently lifted by Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak. And various reports indicate that many Democrats don’t want to relinquish their masks, don’t want life to go back to normal with the waning of the coronavirus plandemic pandemic.

In urban areas of the formerly United States, particularly on both coasts, an astounding number of people seem to enjoy being masked up and locked down, seem to take pride in showing their reflexive compliance to Big Brother, seem to value being submissive and subjugated. They seemingly revel in their subjugation and thrive on being disciplined by their sadomasochistic rulers. They have taken subservience to a new and troubling level and elevated obedience to a virtue. Incomprehensibly, to many in Canada—and the U.S., the land of the formerly free and erstwhile brave– freedom is out, passé, just another word for nothing left to lose.

Freedom is a “far-right concept” now, according to some. Think about that. Freedom is a word primarily associated with radical, right-wing extremists and white supremacy?! How preposterous and revolting is that assertion? What does it say about those on the left? What does it say about those who don’t purport to value (others’) freedom?

Note to all the virtue-signaling wokesters out there: You have the right to prostrate yourself to anybody you like. You can genuflect to your government, take a knee before a Karen. You can submit to your spouse…or your dominatrix. You can subjugate yourself to anyone or anything or any cause you like, but you have no damn right to keep the rest of us enslaved as well. Or to even suggest that we should join you in your prostration.

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  1. @Michael S

    I am not putting a spin on it.

    I am amazed to find out that the idea which I thought died out with Wagner’s Jewishness/Judaism in Music and the fight against the Jewish physics, etc in Germany in the 1930s is not only alive and well but is NORMAL!

    Thank you for the teaching/learning moment.

  2. Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli public intellectual, historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

    He is really smart and interesting.

  3. Reader, you’re putting a spin on this that is far from what I said. “Doctrine” is definitely NOT the same as “dogma”. Signing out now — time for a nap. Shalom shalom 🙂

  4. @Michael S

    Of all people, Reader, you ought to know that “Jewishness” is not a theology; you do not have to be “religious” in order to be “Jewish”. “Doctrine”, on the other hand, has nothing to do with religion: Doctrine is “Teaching”, by definition. Hariri teaches; therefore, he expounds doctrine.

    Doctrine is DOGMA, not teaching.

    Basically, you whole argument boils down to:

    “a Jew, is a Jew, is a Jew – no matter what he says or teaches it is Jewish by definition”.

    You know, like Jewish physics, Jewish mathematics, Jewish chemistry…

    Where have we heard this one before? ?

  5. Hi, Sebastien.

    the book is a detailed intellectual history of CRT as the current form of Marxism that is seeking power, replacing class with race redefined.

    That sounds like a good summary, agreeing with what I’ve read elsewhere about CRT. As you say, it involves “replacing class with race redefined”.Herbert Marcuse is credited with coming up with the “replacement” idea, creating enough “races” and other “oppressed minorities”, to make them collectively become the majority — then labeling the remainder of “boring old white men” as the “oppressing class”. As you said, it’s all about getting power. Once that is attained, the doctrines used in getting to that point go out the window.

  6. HI, Reader. You said,

    They don’t teach Hebrew doctrine in Israeli colleges.

    They only teach Hebrew “doctrine” in religious schools.

    Harari is not religious, he doesn’t think God exists.

    He is also making a very big mistake typical of scientists – every now and then they decide that at this point they know everything there is to know and they can safely do things based on their “absolute knowledge”, and they couldn’t be more wrong.

    Interesting points, Reader. Let me try to address them, one by one:

    1. They don’t teach Hebrew doctrine in Israeli colleges. They only teach Hebrew “doctrine” in religious schools.

    Of all people, Reader, you ought to know that “Jewishness” is not a theology; you do not have to be “religious” in order to be “Jewish”. “Doctrine”, on the other hand, has nothing to do with religion: Doctrine is “Teaching”, by definition. Hariri teaches; therefore, he expounds doctrine. I’ll briefly show his doctrine below.

    2. Harari is not religious, he doesn’t think God exists.

    Belief in God is not essential to being religious. Buddism and Shintoism do not require belief in God. Neither do “Christian” faiths such as Univeralism, nor Reconstructionist Judaism; and the particular God/god “believed” in varies from sect to sect and faith to faith: Allah is very different from Adonai, who is very different from Zeus, Krishna, or the Plymouth Brethren “God-man”. See below for Hariri’s “god”.

    3. He is also making a very big mistake typical of scientists – every now and then they decide that at this point they know everything there is to know and they can safely do things based on their “absolute knowledge”, and they couldn’t be more wrong.

    Belief in “Absolute knowledge” implies belief in the Divine, no matter how much one may try to explain it away. Pseudo-scientists like Dr. Fauci seem to believe that THEY are “Absolute knowledge”. Klaus Schwab also makes pronouncements as though he also, alone, possesses “absolute knowledge”. These people are, indeed, deeply religious in their narcissistic beliefs, and are extremely dangerous.

    Here’s what Yuval Hariri believes:

    Humans conquered the world thanks to their unique ability to believe in collective myths about gods, money, equality and freedom – as described in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. In Homo Deus, Prof. Harari looks to the future and explores how global power might shift, as the principal force of evolution – natural selection – is replaced by intelligent design.

    What will happen to democracy when Google and Facebook come to know our likes and our political preferences better than we know them ourselves? What will happen to the welfare state when computers push humans out of the job market and create a massive new “useless class”? How might Islam handle genetic engineering? Will Silicon Valley end up producing new religions, rather than just novel gadgets?

    As Homo sapiens becomes Homo deus, what new destinies will we set for ourselves? As the self-made gods of planet earth, which projects should we undertake, and how will we protect this fragile planet and humankind itself from our own destructive powers? The book Homo Deus gives us a glimpse of the dreams and nightmares that will shape the 21st century.

    https://www.ynharari.com/book/homo-deus/

    What was Hariri’s “collective myth about gods”? It was Judaism.

    …and Klaus Schwab? it was Christianity. We can all claim we have a better idea than our ancestors, but we cannot honestly deny our ancestors. Harris, Schwab, Einstein, Schweitzer, Hitler, Mother Theresa… they all come from the same Judaeo-Christian mindset. What matters, is what they have made of their heritage.

    The important thing to understand about people like Hariri, is the danger they pose. He is a prominent teacher in a prestigious college in Israel, and he has found an audience among the world’s globalist “elite”. Those people are arch-enemies of Israel; and Yuval and others like him are “fifth columnist” threats.

  7. @Reader, @ Michael S. The blurb Michael cited is a throwaway remark. I’m bad at summarizing but the book is a detailed intellectual history of CRT as the current form of Marxism which in turn goes all the way back to Hegel, who was inluenced by Rousseau, who misinterpreted memoirs of priests who had visited aboriginal peoples that is seeking power, replacing class with race redefined. You really have to listen to at least some of it not to post straw man arguments. I am afraid I can’t do it justice. Doesn’t stop at Gramcsi and Marcuse. Incredibly erudite. Right up there with Victor Davis Hansen.

  8. Reader
    February 23, 2022 at 8:01 pm

    @Sebastien Zorn
    @Michael S

    I just want to mention that people whose knowledge of Marxism boils down to the idea that it is a swear word shouldn’t be discussing it.
    Marxism is not theology. or religion.

    You are confusing the actual theory with the way some ignorant humans pretended to implement what they thought had something to do with Marxism, socialism, communism, etc.

    There is a story about how Marx’s son-in-law was telling him about the Marxist “round table” discussions that he was present at (such discussions of different new ideas were popular among the European intellectuals and university students).

    After listening to his son-in-law’s account Marx said: “You know, if what they were discussing is Marxism, then I am not a Marxist”.

  9. @Sebastien Zorn
    @Michael S

    I just want to mention that people whose knowledge of Marxism boils down to the idea that it is a swear word shouldn’t be discussing it.

    Marxism is not theology or religion.

    You are confusing the actual theory with the way some ignorant humans pretended to implement what they thought had something to do with Marxism, socialism, communism, etc.

    There is a story about how Marx’s son-in-law was telling him about the Marxist “round table” discussions that he was present at (such discussions of different new ideas were popular among the European intellectuals and university students).

    After listening to his son-in-law’s account Marx said: “You know, if what they were discussing is Marxism, then I am not a Marxist”.

  10. @Michael S.

    They don’t teach Hebrew doctrine in Israeli colleges.

    They only teach Hebrew “doctrine” in religious schools.

    Harari is not religious, he doesn’t think God exists.

    He is also making a very big mistake typical of scientists – every now and then they decide that at this point they know everything there is to know and they can safely do things based on their “absolute knowledge”, and they couldn’t be more wrong.

    That’s why he didn’t find it necessary to warn his audience about the possibly very damaging or even lethal effects on humanity that such developments might have.

    However, he stated that the problem of privacy, etc. has to be dealt with even though he had no suggestions or solutions for it.

    Humans will never know everything there is to know.

    Harari made this speech in 2018 and he was warning about the possibility of “digital dictatorship” or he was actually predicting it because the computer science and the bio sciences reached a level where this kind of development is possible.

    He also accurately predicted that people will gladly exchange their personal freedom and privacy for things that promise them better health care, as confirmed by the COVID debacle.

  11. Hi, Reader. I just read this… you said,

    You read the “Protocols” and became convinced that Jews are plotting to take over the world, and Harari is Jewish, therefore whatever he says is a “Jewish doctrine”?

    Are you turning what I said into a question, and then answering it with a question? I don’t get it. The answer is,

    “I have never read the “Protocols” (of the Elders of Zion), so you completely misread what I said. Again,

    Harari is Jewish, therefore whatever he says is a “Jewish doctrine”?

    Of course! The Pope is Catholic. Isn’t everything he says, “Catholic doctrine?” Don’t go down a rabbit hole on this — please keep it simple. You only need to ask a certain person on Israpundit, if this is true: I can’t even quote Torah to him: He says that because I’m saying it, and I was baptized Christian, it’s become “Christian doctrine”. Don’t try to have it both ways.

    Harari is JEWISH. Don’t try to deny it. In fact, he is a professor at Hebrew College in Jerusalem. What do they teach at Hebrew College? Chinese doctrine?

  12. HI, Sebastien.

    Thanks for the link. The narrator said it was over 100,000 words, and the video is nearly two hours long, so I read the blurb:

    Most people think of Marxism as an economic theory or, perhaps, a social theory. This isn’t sufficient. Marxism, strange as it may sound, is a theology, the basis for a religion. This isn’t to say that Marxism or Communism is like a religion. It is to say that it literally is a religion. The basis of the Marxian theology is work, or, as they tend to have it, the work. You must do the work. The work is the basis of the Marxian theology in the same way that submission is the basis of Islam and atonement by grace through the sacrifice of Jesus as Christ is the basis of Christianity. In this groundbreaking episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay dives into the Marxian literature, including the writings of Karl Marx himself, to show that Marxism should be thought of as a theology by clarifying how this theology works. Understanding the theological nature of Marxism will, in turn, shed considerable light on the theological nature of Wokeness. Join James for this intense, in-depth discussion.

    My wife just mentioned James Lindsay the other day (on the Epoch Times?). Maybe that’s where I heard the notion that Marxism and other autocratic systems are all primarily religions, not economic theories. I’m reminded of the scripture:

    1Sam.8
    [5] And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
    [6] But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
    [7] And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

    There is a strong correlation nowadays, between rejection of God and seeking totalitarian control. It isn’t about economics; it’s about theology.

  13. Reader, you said,

    What makes you think it’s a “Jewish” doctrine?

    Because it’s a doctrine, and the one teaching it is Jewish. Duh!

  14. Introductory Podcast about new book, “Race Marxism” by James Lindsay. Very important. Book is available for free as ebook with Kindle Unlimited as well as in print. Lays out the entire intellectual history more thoroughly and insightfully than Anyone else I am aware of, so far. He summarizes book.
    https://youtu.be/oOWvYHCyfgE

  15. @Michael S.

    A “Jewish” doctrine — but not Orthodox

    What makes you think it’s a “Jewish” doctrine?

    You read the “Protocols” and became convinced that Jews are plotting to take over the world, and Harari is Jewish, therefore whatever he says is a “Jewish doctrine”?

    I never got around to reading his books but his presentation strikes me (so far the first 6 minutes) as a collection of radical oversimplified ideas.

  16. I was probing to find the face of the globalists who support Trudeau and oppose ordinary people like the truckers. Of course, Klaus Schwab came to mind; but when looking into the World Economic Forum that Klaus once led, I came across this address — by Yuval Harari, a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a secular Jew. His words sound like the ramblings of a diabolical madman. They are so crazy, it’s tempting to completely ignore him; but his very serious audience included world leaders such as Angela Merkel.

    His signature work is entitled “Homo Deus” (“God Man”): “A brief history of tomorrow.”