Respectable Racism: Black Lives Matter Protest Edition

I’ve been pointing out for a while now that the knee-jerk reaction to blame domestic political problems on foreigners has become a totally acceptable form of racism in liberal American culture. This paranoid tendency comes from the top of our media and political class, and it’s really no different than what Trump pushes. It simply operates within a different demographic.

So I’ve been waiting for this kind of theorizing to get trotted out in response to the incredible Black Lives Matter anti-racism and anti-police state protests happening now all across the country — in response to the brutal murder of George Floyd. And I didn’t have to wait long.

After bubbling up in various forms on viral grifter social media accounts, it’s now hit the mainstream: First as spy fed propaganda in the New York Times and now on cable news — courtesy of CNN vampire Wolf Blitzer and Obama Administration flunky Susan Rice.

Aaron Maté @aaronjmate

More of Susan Rice speculating on CNN that Russia is fueling US protests: "I would not be surprised to learn that they have fomented some of these extremists on both sides using social media. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they are funding it in some way, shape, or form."

You don’t get it protesters, you're being played — the whole point is to disintegrate America from within!

I guess the doubly racist subtext of this story is that black people are incapable of independent political action or anger or righteous violence without a malicious foreign force guiding their actions. If it wasn’t for those sneaky mongoloid meddlers, people would never get uppity. And America would be able to run its racist cops and racist institutions and to kill black people in peace.

This isn’t much different than the right blaming everything on George Soros and the crowds of antifa radicals he can supposedly parachute to any spot on the globe just by pressing a button — because that’s what those tricky Jewish oligarchs do. Or better yet, this foreign influence theory is the same one that was pushed by the John Birch Society — founded by Charles Koch’s father — to explain the Civil Rights Movement: the commies (read “Jews”) are behind it!

The more things change, the more that liberals become like rabid Birchers. What a fucking disgrace.

—Yasha Levine

PS: Evgenia and I drove through West Hollywood last night right around curfew and saw the tail end of the protests. I don’t just fully support and stand in solidarity with the protests and the protesters…I admit that, as Russians, were both there to fan the flames!