It's still late in the day - identity politics edition

We conservatives are long past the point of having accusations of racism / bigotry make our guts grind. I know that my reaction anymore is generally a roll of the eyes.

Still, it's out there all the time, and the plain fact is that there's not a damn subatomic particle of substantiation for it.

Race-, ethnicity-, and sexuality / gender-hustling, however, are practiced hourly by the Left, and continue to divide and polarize Americans.

There is MTV writer Ira Madison's tweet that Jeff Sessions ought to return his Asian granddaughter to Toys R US.



There is the back-and-forth between Rep. Duncan Hunter, who keeps taking down the cops-as-pigs painting, which violates the rules of the contest for art students into which it was entered, from its place of display in the Cannon Tunnel of the Capitol, and Rep. Lacy Clay, who keeps putting it back up. Clay wants us to believe that this is a First Amendment issue and that he is deeply concerned about it. What a lot of dog vomit. He is hard leftist and a second-generation Capitol Hill race hustler, his father having founded the Congressional Black Caucus. He authored Missouri's hate-crime law while in the state legislature. He added his name as cosponsor of a bill calling for Dick Cheney's impeachment.

There is the lecturing of white participants in the upcoming Women's March on Washington to "understand" that they have a degree of "privilege" that other participants don't.

There is the "Men's Project" at the University of Wisconsin - Madison:

“Men’s Project creates a space for critical self-reflection and dialogue about what it means to be a man and how masculinity impacts us and those around us,” organizers state in promoting the effort.

“The experience focuses on the examination of societal images, expectations, and messages around masculinity to empower men to better understand themselves, promote the advancement of gender equity, and raise consciousness in their communities,” organizers add.

It’s open only to “men-identified students” at the public university and “operates on a transformative model of social justice allyship,” according to a news release on the university’s website, which adds “by encouraging that kind of dialogue among a men-identified cohort, the goal is to create a sense of security in vulnerability throughout the six-week program.”

Participants will begin the project with a weekend retreat in February and continue meeting weekly, discussing topics such as media and pop culture, vulnerability, sexuality, hook-up culture, alcohol, relationships and violence.

The program is now in its second year and was most recently offered in fall 2016, accordingto its Facebook page.

There is the demonization of Kim Burrell:

[Golden Globes] nominee film "Hidden Figures," a box-office hit about the true story of three black women mathematicians who played important roles at NASA in the early days of the space program, is also generating unexpected controversy.

The controversy surrounds Kim Burrell, the black gospel singer whose song "I See A Victory" appears on the soundtrack of the film.

Burrell, in addition to being a gospel singer is a pastor, and, with the release of "Hidden Figures," a video emerged on the internet of her passionately preaching in her church against homosexuality.

Burrell was scheduled, as part of the film's promotion, to appear and perform, along with the film's soundtrack producer, Pharrell Williams, on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." But DeGeneres, an open lesbian, canceled Burrell's appearance as a result of the video.

Next, Burrell's radio show, which is produced at Texas Southern University, was canceled. Then she was disinvited from the BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards, where she was a co-honoree. 

Okay, that's enough for now. Perhaps you just had breakfast and would like to keep it down.

But here's the crux of the divide between Right and Left post-America: We get slammed as bigots for merely pointing out that situations like these are infantile and destructive.

A position that would have been considered normal and decent twenty years ago.