Victor Davis Hanson: The Danger Of Making Race Everything

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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I think after 60 years of affirmative action and DEI and.
One of them is, do you think that racial essentialism and racial fixation, especially in the United States, but also throughout the Western world, in Europe, Australia, the former British Commonwealth? And let me just point out that our adversaries, China, Russia or other places in the globe, don't have this racial essentialism because they feel it is innate to human nature. And when you encourage it, you get something like Rwanda, or what's going on now in Nigeria, or something in the Balkans. The natural order of men and animals, is birds of feather flock together. So why would you encourage that? And instead of having ecumenical assimilation, acculturation and integration. So we're suffering from tribal fatigue in the Western world. We see it all of a sudden, straws are starting to break the camel's back.
We saw Henry Norwalk bled to death. Why police were watched him bleed and put handcuffs because his Sikh immigrant assailant lied and said that he was a victim of Henry's racism, which didn't happen here in the United States. We saw Arania Zarudzka, who was murdered on a subway. It was a very eerie video to see her assailant kill her. And then five people who were also African American to walk right by her corpse. And then to him muttered something to the extent that he killed the white blank.
We've seen in addition to this, this emphasis on white, white, white, white, white. It seems like every time that some of our politicians talk about it, they talk about white, white, white, white. Always in a pejorative context, Jasmine Crockett can't finish a sentence without screaming and yelling. There's a whole internet phenomenon now of AI generated people urinating on the grave of the victim of Carmelo Anthony. He has become a folk hero among the black community. It seems like. And his victim who was murdered is somehow the villain. Then we see in the university, this idea that we're going to have shift from affirmative action to DEI. What I mean by that, the old black-white binary would serve a larger purpose in saying for the first time in our history, everybody who was non-white has some claim against the majority because of their skin color. You can be an Indian aristocrat, Indians are those I keep saying are the wealthiest ethnic group in the United States. You can be a Brazilian aristocrat. You can be anybody who has a claim, whether it's linguistic or religious or racial or ethnic, that you're not part of the white establishment. Therefore, you expect even if you're an immigrant or especially if you're an immigrant to come to the United States. But the problem with all this is that data doesn't support it. The data doesn't support it. If you look at crimes between non-white and white, depending on the type, whether it's assault or rape or murder or theft, it can be 6 to 10 to 20 to 30 to 50 times asymmetrical with non-white committing the crime against white. And you know that's true because the pool of victimizers is not large enough for the pool of would be victims. And so then you get some of these surreal Orwellian events like Juicy Smollett suggesting that two imaginary MAGA people beat him up in the middle of the night. Or Michael Brown saying that the people around him said he was shot in the back when he's raised his hands, hands up, don't shoot, complete lie. Or the Duke Lacrosse or Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley. They keep coming. And why do they keep coming? Because we're no longer a systemic racist country.