Dear Friends,
It seems to me, a society that gives special treatment to certain groups of people, is at it’s core bigoted. Special treatment is how you can tell which groups have political favor. The elite as a group always have political favor. Due to their status as elites. Others however can become politically favored. By acting as a group, garnering sympathy, and inflicting violence. A way to gauge the political favor of a group is to examine if it’s illegal or uncouth to call it or its members names. Anyone you’re not allowed to criticize, is someone who the political establishment considers more equal than you. Proven by their special treatment of that group and its members. Moreover, those members of groups that are called names by the elite, have negative political favor, proven by the name calling, by the politically favored.
To be bigoted doesn’t mean only to be racist, sexist or any other kind of ist… it’s holding some groups as superior and others as inferior. It’s group politics. The definition of the members of that superior or inferior group is irrelevant. As in the Star Trek OS episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield. A bigot then, is someone who judges others by the irrelevant, while ignoring the relevant. Enlightenment thinkers pointed this out when it comes to appeal to authority, civil rights and the social contract. Appeal to authority is when we’re to believe the mutterings of a certain group because they’re the authorities. Civil rights is all about the rights of groups in politics. Then there’s the social contract. Where the rulers have an unwritten “contract” with the ruled. Each an example of group politics.
The problem with vilifying group politics, as the term bigoted does, is that there are bigots who desire to wield the power of group politics. So they do it anyway and gaslight us about it. Calling it protecting the weak. That way the bigots claim their bigotry is virtue. As they’ve always done. Meanwhile, modern bigots openly demagogue their political foes. Calling us the worse names they can come up with. The most privileged justifying their attacks on us as attacks on privilege. Even as they use violence to silence. State coercion. Used against their political foes while they call citizens the enemy of the state. The real perversion of this practice is illustrated when two politically favored groups go at it. The elite go spastic trying to pander to both sides and attack them at the same time.
Modern bigots use the law instead of burning a cross on your lawn. Say the wrong thing on Facebook in Europe and the police will knock on your door. With an arrest warrant. Because you called the wrong people names. They can call you anything they want, they have Rights, but you better keep your mouth shut. You don’t. The bigots in the police department will come knocking. In the US, a joke writer is in prison today, because he ridiculed Hillary voters as stupid. While a democrat posted the exact same meme ridiculing Trump voters, and she was lauded for it, not imprisoned. The law has always been the tool of the powerful… aimed by self interest. From slavery, to whistle blowers having to flee the nation, the law has always been the tool of the bigoted despot against their political enemies.
The definition of what’s a politically favored group is irrelevant. The relevant fact is that there are politically favored groups. Proven by the fact there are some people and some groups we’re simply not allowed to criticize, let alone call names. This practice has profoundly negative effects on mankind. It’s clearly not human hearted. Nor is it civilized. Using the law and manipulation to enforce bigotry is itself an evil. Plus, forbidding politically disfavored groups from using rhetoric, is hypocrisy writ large. Since the bigot would never tolerate any diminishment of their Rights. Bigots using the law and manipulation to create politically favored groups, will never go away… until the incentive goes away. The only way to derail the incentive is to stop obeying the bigots and call them what they are.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
