First of all, thanks for writing this essay Gerald. I agree with a lot of your thinking, but disagree with some parts too. But overall I'm glad you're putting this perspective out there. As well as your comprehensiveness in covering a wide range of issues around COVID, including mass surveillance, regulatory capture, religious exemptions, and medicine as a tool of "biopower" control.
As your essay's really long, I put together a "book report"/summary if anyone wants to jump to a section they're interested in. The key thesis is exploring lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and other governmental policies as a form of "white liberal supremacy" intentionally designed to harm non-white people and conservative white people too.
Section 1 covers a history of racism and discrimination in America and the West. The author explores a theory of "white liberal supremacy", where coastal elites/the mandarins/the "laptop class"/whatever term you want to use has taken over the institutions and wields power in self-serving ways under the guise of altruism (especially racial/class). CTRL-F down to "COVID-19 pandemic policies epitomize the modern systems of white liberal supremacy, and in particular, their grounding in the paradigm of medicalization." For the real starting point of interest re: COVID matters.
Section 2 examines vaccine mandates and vaccine passports as a tool of segregation by race and class. As well as religious exemptions and why they're so often denied, and the associated job firings. A nice quote: "Health – and, due to the process of medicalization, continued employment and participation in society – thus becomes a subscription service for life, ensuring massive and perpetual profits for pharmaceutical and associated corporations, as well as their bought-and-paid-for government officials, captured regulators, and complicit scientists."
Section 3 examines mass surveillance (including an in-depth investigation of tracking systems and vaccine passports in various countries), behavioral science, and media propaganda that's used to gaslight people and cover up the adverse effects of the policies.
Section 4 examines the education system (particularly public schools) and the hypocrisy of white liberals in sending their own kids elsewhere, whether to private schools or schools de facto segregated by zip code. It also covers the spread of mental illnesses during the pandemic (remote learning), Andrew Cuomo's role in nursing home deaths and #MeToo, and racial disparities in abortion rates.
Section 5 covers the failures of various political philosophies (and their co-option by systemic power) in the face of their supposed principles, as it's been revealed during the pandemic.
There's also a ton of links, statistics, and data on these various aspects throughout. I hope this is helpful for anyone interested.
The big news today has been about the leaked SCOTUS draft majority opinion re: abortion rights and overturning Roe v. Wade. Where America goes, the West follows.
It immediately reminded me of the abortion section of your essay, as the majority invoke the rationale of racial bias, which is an argument many black conservatives have been making (including Clarence Thomas as you write).
"Alito’s draft opinion ventures even further into this racially sensitive territory by observing in a footnote that some early proponents of abortion rights also had unsavory views in favor of eugenics.
“Some such supporters have been motivated by a desire to suppress the size of the African American population,” Alito writes. “It is beyond dispute that Roe has had that demographic effect. A highly disproportionate percentage of aborted fetuses are black.”"
While I can't say I fully agree with your perspective that this is necessarily tantamount to eugenics, it does make me recognize that abortion in and of itself is only one aspect of a broader system, as you discuss. And that many white liberal groups do only seek symbolic victories rather than material ones. e.g. Without welfare reform, what are women's incentives related to abortion vs. giving birth? Without sufficient job opportunities for their parents (or all too often, parent singular), will babies that are being born have a fair chance in life, given the significant economic disparities between racial groups?
Way to make this whole thing about race, guess that’s the only way you leftoids are “allowed” to disagree with COVID1984 bullshit which is ruining the world for everyone, even white people who you lot can’t contain your hate for. Charles Manson is mad AF that y’all better at race war than him, good job.
Well, guess what? Us white people are THROUGH hearing about how awful we are and how we have to shut up and eat shit because of muh nonwhite people and how only they are allowed to object, and how we must only speak on THEIR behalf.
I stopped when you got to the bit about racist architecture
Quite frankly, the fact that y’all waited til NOW to have problems with COVID1984 and are insisting on making this bullshit aaaaall about race is why you lot have no future and nor do you DESERVE one…this COVID1984 shit is y’all’s ugly baby
Here's a quote from the link: “It’s just sort of fait accompli,” Offit said. “I feel that we’re in a time, this sort of Covid exceptionalism, where we don’t do things the way we normally do it, which is that the science precedes the recommendation. Here, it’s the other way around,” Offit said.
The reason I'm writing is that it ties in perfectly with your essay. If the recommendation is preceding the science, then the recommendations cannot based on science, but rather on something else. I.e. on politics and the "white liberal supremacy" theory you write about. I will share this with my friends.
First of all, thanks for writing this essay Gerald. I agree with a lot of your thinking, but disagree with some parts too. But overall I'm glad you're putting this perspective out there. As well as your comprehensiveness in covering a wide range of issues around COVID, including mass surveillance, regulatory capture, religious exemptions, and medicine as a tool of "biopower" control.
As your essay's really long, I put together a "book report"/summary if anyone wants to jump to a section they're interested in. The key thesis is exploring lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and other governmental policies as a form of "white liberal supremacy" intentionally designed to harm non-white people and conservative white people too.
Section 1 covers a history of racism and discrimination in America and the West. The author explores a theory of "white liberal supremacy", where coastal elites/the mandarins/the "laptop class"/whatever term you want to use has taken over the institutions and wields power in self-serving ways under the guise of altruism (especially racial/class). CTRL-F down to "COVID-19 pandemic policies epitomize the modern systems of white liberal supremacy, and in particular, their grounding in the paradigm of medicalization." For the real starting point of interest re: COVID matters.
Section 2 examines vaccine mandates and vaccine passports as a tool of segregation by race and class. As well as religious exemptions and why they're so often denied, and the associated job firings. A nice quote: "Health – and, due to the process of medicalization, continued employment and participation in society – thus becomes a subscription service for life, ensuring massive and perpetual profits for pharmaceutical and associated corporations, as well as their bought-and-paid-for government officials, captured regulators, and complicit scientists."
Section 3 examines mass surveillance (including an in-depth investigation of tracking systems and vaccine passports in various countries), behavioral science, and media propaganda that's used to gaslight people and cover up the adverse effects of the policies.
Section 4 examines the education system (particularly public schools) and the hypocrisy of white liberals in sending their own kids elsewhere, whether to private schools or schools de facto segregated by zip code. It also covers the spread of mental illnesses during the pandemic (remote learning), Andrew Cuomo's role in nursing home deaths and #MeToo, and racial disparities in abortion rates.
Section 5 covers the failures of various political philosophies (and their co-option by systemic power) in the face of their supposed principles, as it's been revealed during the pandemic.
There's also a ton of links, statistics, and data on these various aspects throughout. I hope this is helpful for anyone interested.
The big news today has been about the leaked SCOTUS draft majority opinion re: abortion rights and overturning Roe v. Wade. Where America goes, the West follows.
It immediately reminded me of the abortion section of your essay, as the majority invoke the rationale of racial bias, which is an argument many black conservatives have been making (including Clarence Thomas as you write).
From the original Politico article (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473), quoting from page 30 of the PDF:
"Alito’s draft opinion ventures even further into this racially sensitive territory by observing in a footnote that some early proponents of abortion rights also had unsavory views in favor of eugenics.
“Some such supporters have been motivated by a desire to suppress the size of the African American population,” Alito writes. “It is beyond dispute that Roe has had that demographic effect. A highly disproportionate percentage of aborted fetuses are black.”"
While I can't say I fully agree with your perspective that this is necessarily tantamount to eugenics, it does make me recognize that abortion in and of itself is only one aspect of a broader system, as you discuss. And that many white liberal groups do only seek symbolic victories rather than material ones. e.g. Without welfare reform, what are women's incentives related to abortion vs. giving birth? Without sufficient job opportunities for their parents (or all too often, parent singular), will babies that are being born have a fair chance in life, given the significant economic disparities between racial groups?
Way to make this whole thing about race, guess that’s the only way you leftoids are “allowed” to disagree with COVID1984 bullshit which is ruining the world for everyone, even white people who you lot can’t contain your hate for. Charles Manson is mad AF that y’all better at race war than him, good job.
Well, guess what? Us white people are THROUGH hearing about how awful we are and how we have to shut up and eat shit because of muh nonwhite people and how only they are allowed to object, and how we must only speak on THEIR behalf.
I stopped when you got to the bit about racist architecture
Quite frankly, the fact that y’all waited til NOW to have problems with COVID1984 and are insisting on making this bullshit aaaaall about race is why you lot have no future and nor do you DESERVE one…this COVID1984 shit is y’all’s ugly baby
This essay is genuinely remarkable. Can the author please write me tucker@brownstone.org
Thank you for this brilliant essay. It's a much-needed dose of reality in these times when we can't trust the mainstream media.
I read an article this morning (link: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/06/scientists-divided-on-need-for-4th-covid-shot-after-fda-quietly-approved-another-round-of-boosters.html) about regulatory capture and the big pharmaceutical companies and their scientists having basically taken over the job that the FDA and CDC are supposed to be doing impartially. One Doctor calls it "booster mania".
Here's a quote from the link: “It’s just sort of fait accompli,” Offit said. “I feel that we’re in a time, this sort of Covid exceptionalism, where we don’t do things the way we normally do it, which is that the science precedes the recommendation. Here, it’s the other way around,” Offit said.
The reason I'm writing is that it ties in perfectly with your essay. If the recommendation is preceding the science, then the recommendations cannot based on science, but rather on something else. I.e. on politics and the "white liberal supremacy" theory you write about. I will share this with my friends.