Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - The Women's March is Destroying Itself

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Dec. 30, 2018 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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The Women's March is Destroying Itself

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	So recently you've probably seen a viral article called California Organizers Cancel Women's March Due to Overwhelmingly White Participants.
	The organizers of the annual women's march have decided not to hold a rally in Eureka on January the 19th as previously planned because they say participants do not fully represent the diversity of the area.
	Up to this point the participants have been overwhelmingly white, lacking representation from several perspectives in our community.
	Because apparently your opinion is based on your skin colour.
	Which is presumably why you get so many white leftists calling black people race traitors or Uncle Toms because they don't think in the racially approved way, at least as social justice conceives of it.
	These people are supporting the fascist system, separating our community.
	If I want flyers, flyers.
	You're a race traitor, get out of here.
	If I want flyers, you're going to meet your own people, please.
	I attended that today.
	You're not right.
	You're not right.
	I'm not right.
	You know what I'm saying, they're okay.
	They say, instead of pushing forward with crucial voices absent, the organizing team will take more time for outreach.
	Our goal is that planning will continue and we'll be successful in creating an event that will build power and community engagement through connection between women that seek to improve the lives of all in our community.
	And I tell you what, if I were a man in that community, I would feel really reassured that this women's march, who finds there are just too many white people that support them and therefore they have to stop their activism, I would feel very confident in the fact that if I was a struggling man in California, these people were looking out for me.
	This went viral for a few reasons.
	I think one of them being it's an obvious demonstration of racism against white people from the left as usual.
	I mean, if you have to cancel your march because there are too many white people in it, how do you say that you're not against white people?
	How do you say that white people are not the problem for your march?
	Because I mean, that was the exact express reason you gave.
	There are too many white people here.
	But the thing is, I don't want to misinterpret exactly what these organizers mean when they say white.
	They might not just mean European or Anglo or something like that.
	They might mean Jewish.
	Because in 2018, the women's march was rocked by an anti-Semitism scandal.
	As in, the founders of the Women's March seem to have been openly anti-Semitic.
	And when they say white, what they mean is Jewish.
	As Vox reported back in March of 2018, the women's march leaders were being accused of anti-Semitism because it turned out that a few of the founders were in fact fans of Louis Farrakhan.
	The women's march organizer and co-president Tamika Mallory was present at a speech Farrakhan gave before the Nation of Islam in February.
	During the speech, Farrakhan made several anti-Semitic comments, including saying, the powerful Jews are my enemy.
	The ADL noted that Farrakhan also argued that Jewish people control the media and use that influence to increase the number of gay and transgender individuals in the US and said Jewish people control the US government and claimed the FBI under Jewish influence pushed marijuana onto black men to feminize them in addition to a number of other comments.
	And I don't want to have to say that I told you so, but I told you so.
	To the members of the Jewish community that don't like me, thank you very much for putting my name all over the planet Because of your fear of what we represent, I can go anywhere in the world and they've heard of Farrakhan.
	Thank you very much.
	I'm not mad at you.
	Because you're so stupid.
	Don't you know?
	My teacher, Elijah Muhammad, taught me one day.
	He said there once was a donkey that fell in the ditch.
	And everybody came along, they picked up a stone and threw it at the donkey.
	They threw so many stones till the ditch got filled up and the donkey walked out.
	So my teacher said, brother, remember, every knock is a boost.
	So when they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater, you know what they do.
	Call me an anti-Semite.
	Stop it!
	I'm anti-termite.
	As soon as you see the world through the lens of the racial identitarian, it doesn't really matter who is doing what.
	What matters is what they are and what they're doing.
	Because ultimately, there's no denying the fact that Jewish people are heavily overrepresented in industries like the media.
	That's an indisputable fact.
	And Jewish people know this too.
	And this isn't like some conspiracy.
	I mean, I've heard all kinds of reasons, like Jewish people have got a high verbal IQ and that they're particularly creative and things like this.
	And there's probably some truth to some of that.
	Who knows?
	I don't really care.
	But the problem that they have is that they can't be treated as individuals.
	It's not that this particular person did this particular work and is being rewarded for it.
	And the fact that they're Jewish is incidental.
	When you're an identitarian, this has to all tie into a grand tapestry.
	Because what you're doing as a racial identitarian is describing power differences between racial groups.
	Each racial group is now a homogeneous political unit.
	And you have to calculate your unit's power in relation to other units, as in black people, white people, Mexicans, whoever.
	And in the case of Jewish people, it turns out that the unit that is the Jewish community, not a united front, obviously, not in cahoots, obviously, not even in agreement on most issues, I would imagine, is suddenly treated like it's one monolithic block.
	Now, I'm against treating ethnicities as monolithic blocks.
	I think that's a bad idea.
	And it's because it leads to results like this, which is why I think that's a bad idea.
	Now all Jews are being pathologized by radical leftists.
	And the black identitarians who have decided that they happen to like Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam and agree that the women's march is something we need to do because after all, being a woman is an identitarian group in and of itself.
	I mean, that's the very purpose of the women's march, to address and advance women's issues as if women are a monolithic block.
	Well, all I can say is, you made the bed and now you've got to lie in it.
	But these allegations remained a kind of internal thing until December this year, when it turned out that the founders of the Women's March said some pretty spicy things at the very inception of the march.
	In fact, in the initial meetings that they had to set this thing up.
	As the New York Times reported on December the 23rd, a diverse group of women, united by their concern about the incoming administration, gathered at a restaurant in New York to plan a protest march in Washington against Donald Trump.
	The unity did not last long.
	Vanessa Rubel, a Brooklyn-based activist, said she told the group that her Jewish heritage inspired her to try and help repair the world.
	but said the conversation took a turn when Tamika Mallory, a black gun control activist, and Carmen Perez, a Latina criminal justice reform activist, replied that Jews need to confront their own role in racism.
	Ms. Rubel was pushed out of the organization shortly after the march, and she now asserts that her Jewish identity played a role.
	And to be honest with you, it's actually unimaginable that her Jewish identity didn't play a role, given that she's talking to acolytes of Louis Farrakhan.
	According to Tablet magazine in an article entitled, Is the Women's March Melting Down?, it was at this original meeting that the women opened up about their backgrounds and personal investments in creating the resistance movement to Trump.
	Perez and Mallory allegedly first asserted that Jewish people bore a special collective responsibility as exploiters of black and brown people, and even, according to a close second-hand source, claimed that Jews were proven to have been the leaders of the American slave trade.
	These canards were popularized by Louis Farrakhan in his book, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, known as the Bible of the New Anti-Semitism, according to Henry Louis Gates Jr.
	Of course, Mallory and Bland deny any such statements were ever uttered, either at the first meeting or at Mallory's apartment, but there was a particular conversation around how white women had centered themselves, and also around the dynamics of racial justice and why it was essential that racial justice be a part of the women's rights conversation.
	But she and Mallory insisted it never had anything to do with Jews.
	Carmen and I were very clear at that first meeting that we would not take on roles as worker or staff, that we had to be in a leadership position in order for us to engage in the march.
	Other than that, there was no particular conversation about Jewish women or any particular group of people.
	I find that very hard to believe, given how the entire purpose of the women's march is to talk about a particular group of people.
	But either way, is it acceptable to say that white people have got a collective burden of guilt for the slave trade?
	Is that a fair thing to say?
	Or is it just okay because it's being done to white people?
	And so, returning back to today, in fact, the New Orleans Women's March has also been cancelled amid the national anti-Semitism controversy.
	The Louisiana chapter cites the unwillingness of the Women's March co-chairs to step down over the anti-Semitic remarks and denounce Louis Farrakhan.
	Due to several issues, we have decided it is necessary to cancel the 2019 Women's March in New Orleans.
	Many of the sister marchers have asked the leaders of the Women's March Inc. to resign, but as of today, they have yet to do so.
	The controversy is dampening efforts of sister marches to fundraise, enlistment involvement, find sponsors, and attendee numbers have drastically declined this year.
	New Orleans is no exception, however, this does not mean the end of our momentum in Louisiana.
	It's time to look past the marching and towards a new stage of the movement.
	And three days ago, it was announced that the Chicago Women's March was also cancelled, amid the national controversy as USNews.com reports, but apparently not because of the wider anti-Semitism controversy that is destroying the national movement.
	According to the Chicago Women's March Group, this is actually not related to the wider anti-Semitism controversy that is tearing this movement apart.
	This is apparently because there was so much time, money and energy and effort put into the October event that it was apparently a roaring success.
	But to be fair, that is before the wider anti-Semitism scandal really gained ground.
	But as USNews.com reports, the Washington State chapter has announced earlier this month that it would dissolve, and according to The Hill, the chapter in Rhode Island said that it would separate from the national movement.
	Of course, the original founders of the movement are not the only women in the movement with a history of anti-Semitism.
	Not long after the Women's March had been formed, Linda Sarsour joined them, and, well, how does Linda Sarsour feel about Jewish people?
	According to the New York Post, not brilliantly.
	Don't join this year's Women's March unless you're good with anti-Semitism, they say.
	Linda Sarsour is one of the leaders.
	Articles soon sprang up about the terrible comments she made.
	She supported the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
	She praised Sharia law, which, among other things, includes second-class status for women.
	She was open about her fandom of Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam.
	In 2012, she tweeted, When we write the history of Islam in America, the nation of Islam is an integral part of that history.
	Perhaps she didn't know that Louis Farrakhan said Hitler was a very great man in a 1984 speech, or in 1985 he warned Jews, and don't you forget, when it's God who puts you in the ovens, it's forever.
	Maybe she was ignorant of his 1996 remark about fake Jews, that is, Jews who disapprove of his anti-Semitic comments.
	Quote, you are the synagogue of Satan, and you have wrapped your tentacles around the US government, and you are deceiving and sending this nation to hell.
	In September, Linda Sarsour said that American Muslims shouldn't, quote, humanize Israelis.
	There was no overwhelming response from the left to remind her that Israelis are actually human.
	Why would there be?
	The left is infested with anti-Semitism, as we have seen of late.
	All over the place.
	Jews were responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behaviour that Hollywood is putting out, turning men into women and women into men.
	White folks are going down, and Satan is going down, and Farrakhan, by God's grace, has pulled the cover off that satanic Jew, and I'm here to say your time is up, your world is through.
	She also posted a picture of herself embraced by Farrakhan, referring to him as the goat, the greatest of all time.
	So when she refused to condemn Farrakhan's anti-Semitic and anti-LGBT comments after being asked, it was no surprise.
	I think we've gone far enough in exploring the deeply anti-Semitic nature of the leaders and founders of the Women's March.
	And it is this commitment to identitarianism that is at the heart of all of this.
	If you are prepared to play racial and gender identity politics, this is where you will eventually end up.
	There is no denying that Jewish people in the West are highly educated, family-oriented, and high-achieving.
	This is not wrong, this is in fact a good thing.
	And the fact that Jews can succeed in this way is a testament to the meritocracies that we do actually run.
	If Jews did not succeed in the West, there would have to be some kind kind of artificial barrier put in their place to hold them back.
	Well-educated, well-motivated and creative people should succeed.
	And so it would be bizarre if we did not see a preponderance of Jewish people at the top of society.
	After all, we like to think that we are running meritocracies and the success of the Jews proves it.
	But the fundamental problem with identitarianism is the ridiculous proposition that we can somehow achieve peace and equality and tranquility by pitting one ethnic group against each other or one gender against each other, making the fundamental underlying premise of the women's march and all of the diverse intersectional and inclusive groups that want to take part in it doomed to failure from the start.
	This was inevitable.
	Not necessarily around Jews, I mean they were already doing it about white people, as we saw from them cancelling the California March, but nobody cares about racism towards white people, so I guess we're going to have to wait until the identitarians lower down on the totem pole, look at those identitarians slightly up at the totem pole, and then realize that they can use identity politics to dislodge these people from their positions of privilege.
	This is what we have seen in the women's march and in every other identitarian movement that there is, and this is what has destroyed the women's march.
	This is the future that they wanted, and this is the future that they got.
	Maybe, just maybe, there will be some people who will watch what has happened with the women's march and how identity politics has destroyed it and think maybe we should turn to issue politics instead.

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