The New School Nazis: It's Your Actions that Define You

New School Nazis A CUT ABOVE

Looking, listening, and thinking is a more reliable basis for decision making than “everybody says,” or government handouts — and it’s the best way to escape the net of prejudice that is being gathered around us.

Here are a few harbingers of the New Nazism to come:   

“Ladies” and “men” — leaving behind the level field of social respect; “men and women” and “ladies and gentlemen” have now been recoupled to establish a higher level of respect and privilege.

“African American man” and “white male” — not only displays a difference in the respect given “man” and “male,” but in the glorification of ethnicity and origin, versus the denial of it. “Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.” — Malcolm X

“Women” and “people” — equitable gender treatment is only a tool to use, not a rule to follow. One example can be found in a modern TV series with historical pretentions: a woman historian details the trials and tribulations of women in a mining town, but skates over the deaths of miners by explosions and cave-ins with a tossed off, “2,000 people died in the mines.” By removing their gender identification; she removes their gender legitimacy — and helps foster a climate of indifference to their fate. Women are victims; men are disposable.

Only Women can be “strong” — how many times have we heard the appellation “strong woman” and “independent woman” used in recent years — and how few, if any, times in describing a man. The same women who are outraged when a man decides what a woman should be, have no problem in deciding what a man should be — something less.

These are a few of the stratifying techniques that are used deliver a message of privilege and hate, and work powerfully to reinforce their acceptance as our new societal standard of interaction and legislation.