Viruses and naughty words

There’s no use in pointing out dissonance or hypocrisy. I can’t think of a single instance where someone in a position of power lost their power merely by having someone explain how they were a liar (if anything, the person who proffers the explanation tends to get punished). So I realize this is empty kvetching…

Liberals are so fucking racist and stupid. Jesus. Jesus mother fucking Allah fucking gay fucking shithead Christ, these people are racist and these people are stupid. There is a direct, huge correlation between how loudly one avows their own anti-racism and how racist their actions and beliefs actually are, and this is so plain and obvious to so many people it’s what’s turned leftism into an alienating cesspool of recrimination that will never accomplish a goddamn thing.

At least conservative racists will sometimes own up to their racism. And even if they don’t, they at least spare you the holier than thou bullshit and language policing.

For 2 weeks, the only stand liberals have been willing to take is denouncing Trump from referring to COVID as “the China flu,” and going so far as to formally mandate that public health officials don’t refer to it as the Wuhan virus.

Is there going to be anti-asian racism associated with a deadly pandemic? Yes, of course. But that’s not mitigated in the least through terminological dictates. Over a month ago, woke academic shitheads at my workplace were proudly announcing that they refused to eat at Chinese restaurants. “Nothing against them,” of course. The academics weren’t being racist, you see. Just retarded. Racism would entail using bad words. The blind, fearful, and prejudicial actions they were discussing couldn’t be racist, because seriously racism is only words.

The editorial board at every major paper and news network, excepting Fox News, has formally mandated that their writers and reporters not use ethnic-sounding names for the virus. Hooray! Social justice has won! Only, also, each of those papers and networks have spread massive amount of disinformation that incorrectly blames China for our public health failures and, for good measure, accuses Russia of “information warfare” that’s hurt our ability to not piss our pants and fuck everything up as badly as possible. We’re actually totally competent and functional, see, is just that those slavic dastards have pulled the wool over our eyes!

This is actually racist! Naming a disease after its probable spawning point is not fucking racist! Scapegoating scary foreigners for your social failings is! Call it the fucking Chinaman Syndrome. Call it The New Yellow Fever. That doesn’t fucking matter. What does matter, however, is that our nation’s leaders and commentariat are so fucking sure of our cultural superiority they blithely assert that the fucking free market is the best at fighting epidemics and that hurting the precious stock market is a tyrannical act. That’s racism. That’s retardation. And that’s precisely what the last 2 decades of social justice theorizing/preaching have rendered us incapable of recognizing.

Racism is words and words are racism and materiality and context should never factor into one’s analysis or moral judgement. That’s the dictate we’ve received. That’s why, materially, woke people are every bit as shitty and hateful as the Trump supporters they so despise. That’s why we are unable to mount any reaction to any problem, because we won’t even let ourselves understand it. That’s why we’re fucked.

