White Privilege, Moral Extortion and the Descendants of Cain

WHITE PRIVILEGE AND MORAL EXTORTION

 

“White privilege” is ironic if not also nonsensical. Its common use today is derogatory in that it criticizes all people with light colored skin. Thus, by definition, it is racist. It demeans people solely based on the color of their skin and not their character. Also, those that use the term vainly, attempt to elevate themselves by criticizing another. The tactic has never worked because, on its face, it’s self-defeating. It claims that non-whites will never have the advantage of whites. Thus, the person using the term is using racism to criticize racism. But, still they persist.

 

As someone neither white nor black, I can boast neutrality and say confidently, that the losers that talk this way, attempt moral extortion. They are gangsters who, without the discipline to work hard, tell shop owners, “Pay us insurance money so you’re not guilty of forcing us to burn your business to the ground.”  

 

The only “hope” of impact such extortioners have is that their targets, who are prevailed upon by fear and not through fair competition, will cave to the terrorist demand.

 

Much is the situation in the U.S. cities currently ravaged by rioters who claim their underachievement is the consequence of others' success. Few are fooled that the riots are somehow about police brutality. It’s really about “class” warfare: the lazy vs. the disciplined. Somehow, the business owner who works 80 hours a week is oppressing, not himself, but the people who refuse to work even 20 hours a week.

 

I am very familiar with this practice, or the pathetic spirit behind it, which would be comical were it not so annoying and malicious, all thanks to its prevalence in the so-called civilized China. We have a special term coined for it. Pengci 碰瓷. Literally, it means 'touch porcelain'— jargon from the antique industry. Some morally challenged shop owners will place poor quality porcelain products in the middle of their store’s aisle-way. The owner intends that when a customer walks past they will easily knock the porcelain to the floor where it will break. The seller will then demand compensation for the customer’s recklessness. (Burned down a shop lately?)

Pengci 碰瓷 is unique to the Beijing dialect. It refers to malicious and illegal behaviors intended for the purpose of blackmail. For example, one may deliberately crash a car and then demand compensation—an incident-faking extortionist, which is a person who stages an incident and pretends to be the victim in order to extort money from the person who is framed as the party at fault. Welcome to Portland, Oregon.

 

Now, many people who are not exposed to such moral corruption are unaware of and shocked by this petty, ugly incompetence. Thus, we have the saying: Ignorance of cunning and evil is a hallmark of purity and nobility.

 

DESCENDANTS OF CAIN

Hitler as Cain (Painting by George Grosz, in Berlin)

Nancy Pelosi, it seems to me, is a descendant of Cain, as are all complainers and the whining wimps who refuse to take responsibility for their actions. It was Cain who accused his brother Abel of being more favorably treated (or privileged), although it was Cain’s disobedience that put Cain out of favor. And it was Cain’s murder of Abel that labeled Cain “under privileged” or cursed for all time. It was not Abel’s obedience that got Cain into trouble. Most, if not all, the claims of police brutality involve criminals, not law-abiding citizens. Although, in a way, we all have the blood of Cain, for Cain came from the same parents as Abel.

 

The temptation to blame anything and anyone other than oneself as the cause of one's misery, perceived or real, is strong in everyone. Therefore, Communism, Marxism and (radical) Feminism successfully exploited this weakness. The oppressed and the oppressor narrative always finds its audience.

 

Such selfishness is convenient. One doesn't have to change oneself with a little self-murder and rebirth. It is painful to admit one's own faults and costly to correct them. But the price of taking the easier and broader road of faulting others, leads surely and very swiftly to destruction. 

If you blame only exogenous factors for your own problems, the less specific, and more ill-defined, vague, broad and abstract these factors are, the more convenient a scapegoat they will be. An individual, however monstrous, would only plausibly be held responsible for certain and a limited number of woes. But, if the culprit is a group of people, the white, or men, or the society, the world — the more sweeping and all encompassing the accusations of who to blame and accuse — then the whole of the group would not be able to defend themselves.

 

If I blame my ex-boyfriend for my singleness, I am only a boring unlucky woman with a point.  If I blame men for my loneliness, I am a bitter cynic with little sense of proportion and probably no lasting friends. If I blame the world and God for my fate, I am (literally) out of my mind.

 

Therefore, I have decided not to blame anyone or anything for the outcome of my life, not even communists, nor my parents, nor the political Chinese culture.  This is a new discovery for me, and I still struggle to practice what I believe. But I am so much happier than before.