WaPo Writer Actually Declares Individual Freedom ‘a Key Component of White Supremacy’ – Opinion

George Orwell’s “1984” or “Animal Farm”? Nope. Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”? Uh-huh. Another dystopian book about the life of a totalitarian America in the future? It’s not possible. Straight out of the Washington Post. You know, the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” guys?

More like “Individual Freedom and Liberty Dies in the Darkness of the Radical Left.”

In a WaPo “Made by History” op-ed titled The Ottawa Trucker Convoy Is Rooted in Canada’s Settler Colonial History, Taylor Dysart, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania, awkwardly argues that “one’s entitlement to freedom is a key component of White supremacy.” After carefully dissecting the garble, I was able to get to the root cause.

We will not begin without referring to the over 187,594,632 articles (and counting!) about Freedom Convoy and the totalitarian Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau or any other topic. Ottawa, my focus will be on “none of above.” Instead, it will be about the crux of the lunacy of Mr. Dysart and other lunatics who believe as he does, and the unfortunate publishing of said lunacy by a once-proud American institution.

You’re welcome. Let’s get on with it.

Needless to say, Dysart spends most of his effort blistering the Freedom Convoy and those who support it, including what he calls “center-right” and “right-wing” public figures — the eclectic trio of Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and Donald Trump.

Here’s our first snippet of Dysart’s drivel, via WaPo:

While the convoy’s supporters have characterized the protest as a peaceful movement, uninformed by “politics, race, religion, or any personal beliefs,” many supporters have been associated with or expressed racist, Islamophobic and white-supremacist views.

When Tucker Carlson of Fox News interviewed Benjamin J. Dichter, cementing his place among the movement’s leaders, Dichter rambled and likened Canada’s western provinces to “a third-world country,” due, presumably, to immigration.

In Ottawa, various reports captured maskless protesters brandishing Confederate, Nazi and “Trump 2024” flags. Police have launched dozens of criminal investigations and made at least 20 arrests, including for carrying weapons in a public place and assault.

My focus here isn’t on Ottawa or the Gestapo-like tactics used by police on horseback.

While I grew tired of the fixation with all-things Ottawa, days ago, I don’t seem to remember seeing any video of Nazis, Islamophobes, white supremacists, or anything other than peaceful protesters. No matter; agenda-driven radical leftists — and today’s Democrat Party — now view anyone and everything they oppose through the made-up lens of “bigotry,” “white supremacy,” and “systemic racism.”

“The convoy has surprised onlookers in the United States and Canada,” Dysart said — and lied. “Both because of the explicitly racist and violent perspectives of some of the organizers and because the action seems to violate norms of Canadian ‘politeness.’ Au contraire, he argued, “the convoy represents the extension of a strain of Canadian history that has long masked itself behind ‘peacefulness’ or unity’: settler colonialism.”

“Settler colonialism,” defined in part by Oxford Bibliographies as “an ongoing system of power that perpetuates the genocide and repression of indigenous peoples and cultures.”

And (one of) Dysart’s conclusions? “It is not incidental that this latest expression of white supremacy is emerging amid a public health crisis.”

One word: Insane.

Now, the ridiculous crux of Dysart’s woefully misguided effort (emphasis, mine):

The Freedom Convoy’s majority White supporters argue that the mandates for pandemics violate their constitutional rights. The notion of “freedom” was historically and remains intertwined with Whiteness [Slavery in America and around the world begged to differ]According to Tyler Stovall (historian), it is.

The belief that one’s entitlement to freedom is a key component of White supremacy. [Awkward as hell sentence]This is why we love tMembers of Freedom Convoy see freedom as a right, regardless of the health implications for those around them.

That’s all I can take, gang. Click on the WaPo link at the top to read the rest of Dysart’s nonsensical connecting of dots that don’t exist, if you must.

Let’s get to the bottom of it:

Tayler, and many other leftist elites, thrive in no-longer-accredited universities. These elites are only relevant to them and their fellow elitists who share the same absurd world. They lack facts, reality or daily-life experience. They should not be taken seriously.

The Washington Post publishing Dysart’s drivel is an entirely different matter. It reinforces what we already know about the state of American “journalism” and the “news” they choose to print, air, and push.

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