Andrew Rei
Aug 23, 2017 · 3 min read

Son of Baldwin (SoB…LOL ;) ) forgot one logical fallacy employed by the white racists, perhaps the most important one: shifting the burden of proof. This is where usually stupid people will say, “(idiotic claim here), prove me wrong”. In this case, it’s “we’re not racists; prove us wrong”.

It’s a hilarious irony, then, when they make these claims because they short-circuit their own argument by ACTING like racists. They forget the old saying, “actions speak louder than words”. That’s a huge problem in the Republican and Libertarian Parties. They make all kinds of claims that are ridiculous but then turn around and prove that they’re racists, Fascists or Fascism-suborners/enablers, greedy, insane, etc., with their actions.

SoB’s detailing of the truth that you can provide all the proof of the world to racists that they’re racists but they not believing it or denying it is a spot-on observation; that’s known as “cognitive dissonance”, a situation where someone (or some people) being confronted with the truth and facts become uncomfortable, so they simply deny those truths and facts to make themselves feel better. Cognitive dissonance is the first of the three steps I call “The Progression” of what happens when you confront the GOP (who happen to have all of the racists, despite their Fascist propaganda to the contrary) with the truth and facts. SoB mentioned false equivalency in the article; that happens to be step two. Most Republicans, thanks to what’s already the most corrupt Presidential administration in this country’s history right now, skip the first step and go straight to step two, making the bogus claim that “Democrats and Republicans are the same”. The final step is what happens when you debunk them on the first two and they get angry with you for doing it, projectional hypocrisy. Projection is the worst form of hypocrisy because the claimants make bogus claims about others that truly apply to them. Republicans are expert projectional hypocrites; Libertarians are not quite as good at it as the GOP are because they spend most of their time on step two, false equivalency, as “minor” party members must do to garner support. But, Libertarians and Republicans are closest to being the same when you study their ideologies/philosophies, which means that their false equivalency arguments are also projectional hypocrisy.

Earlier this year, I announced on Facebook that I was “becoming Switzerland” (taking a position of neutrality) on gender and minority equality issues. I’m a white guy; when I started advocating for the equality of women and Persons of Color (PoC), I expected many Fascist Republicans and Fascism-suborning Libertarians to excoriate me for advocating such things. Imagine my surprise, then, when 97% of the people criticizing me for doing it were……women and PoC! I finally told those critics, “listen: I’m a white guy; if other white people won’t listen to me, what makes you think they’ll listen to you?!?” It didn’t matter what or how much proof I provided; in the best-case scenario, I was looked at with suspicion by those for whom I advocated…I won’t detail what those people called and told me in the worst-case scenario.

Not long after making that announcement. in something I knew was going to happen, someone (a PoC, actually) tried to use the Archbishop Desmond Tutu quote against me that goes like so: “If you remain neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen he side of the oppressor”. My response was pretty easy: “when the oppressed reject your help, that’s a decision they made to continue to be oppressed.” Aka, cognitive dissonance. If PoC are exasperated about trying to convince white racists that they’re racist, imagine how those of us who are white and know the truth feel when we get it from “both sides”.

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