The muck-rakers of the so-called "left "† are endlessly clever in contriving and using weaponized linguistic terms. I have found it quite interesting to observe how they make up expressions, the intentions and objectives of which are to stir the emotions in the most negative ways, due in large part to the deeply negative connotations such terms carry (often tacitly), place them "out there" through various channels, and how such terms seem to so readily take root in the minds a great many people without having to bear so much as the least burden of scrutiny.
Terms such as "racism", "homophobia", "misogynist", "patriarchy", etc., are all good examples of how new terms were yanked from thin air, and old ones redefined through misapplication and consequent misuse. The fact that these terms have so broadly succeeded in their goals as altering factors in the ways that people perceive and respond to specific conditions in the social aether is something at which one ought truly marvel, and be appalled. The fact that human beings are so easily lead by their noses, in the relevant case here to their own effective destruction, should leave the hairs on us all reaching for the stars.
Idioms of more recent vintages ("safe space", "gender fluid", etc.) connote notions deserving of naught but our backs, and yet have managed to stick. This may testify to the innate corruptibility of the human animal, but it may also speak to the raw power of broadcast media, and perhaps a combination of the two.
But today's objective is to focus on a single term and the notion it conveys: "people of color".
For many decades the terms issuing from the left have all carried the taint of bitterness, hatred, confrontation, envy, and a whole list of other negative connotations, one of the most useful among them being "victimhood". "People of color" are, more than anything else, offered up in the perceiving mind as victims. This is all very tacit, of course, but nonetheless set forth with great pressure. People of color are victims first and foremost. Somewhat paradoxically, they are also offered up as being so wonderful; as better than white people. They are, in fact, the superior people who at the same time are victims of the white, which is tacitly implied with equal force to be not of color. This is ironic when one realizes from a strictly scientific perspective that "white" is the presence of all color. "White" people are the most colored of all humans, the "black" being absent of all color. This alone should lend one a very strong hint at the patently ridiculous nature of the expression.
But if we're going to play that tainted game, the results of which are naught but to cause ever deeper harm to human relations, then white people hold more claim to "people of color" than any other group.
Naturally, that tidbit of truth is of no interest to the Weakman who, for whatever reason, has vested himself in the leftist world view. For him, his truth is the only truth in spite of the utter absence of its demonstration. Similarly, the views of all others are to him invalid and false, regardless of how perfectly proven.
Whether it was intended, and the likelihood is that it was, people of color have vested themselves in the negative, while at the same time voicing the more positive virtues of "love", "equality", "justice", and so forth. When observing the average "man of color" in action, it becomes clear that their walk does not accord with their talk. They make clear that their individual understandings of the various idealized terms that they so casually spew into the aether are either catastrophically lacking, or they intentionally misuse them pursuant to some unpublished agenda.
So-called "people of color" are not the only guilty/duped parties in all this. There exists a large and vital contingent of lefties of the "white" vintage who actively aid, abet, and endeavor to foster the dangerous follies that these broken expressions are intended to work toward. They do so in large part by their endless virtue-signaling, the subtext to it all being the wholly ego-absorbed message of "everybody look at me... I'm so special and evolved. I'm so selfless... so much better than everyone else", the great irony there being that all this carrying on about themselves is the very antithesis of selflessness. A more self-absorbed personality one would be hard pressed to identify.
The white regressive goes to extraordinary pains to gain the acceptance of his non-white compatriots, to the point of embarrassment. And yet, when the thinking man stops to carefully consider the spew that issues from such people, we find that their words are rotten with implied racial bias and hatred, leaving one to wonder whether the white regressive is even aware of the truer nature of the things he utters.
For example, they go on endlessly about how the poor "man of color" suffers under the tyranny of systemic white racism (subtext there is that only white people can be racist). Their argument extends from there to imply ever so tacitly that without the aid of the white man, those of color will continue to suffer economic and social failure. The assumption that "people of color" are nearly universally failed seems a bit of a stretch. That "people of color" are incapable of rising above squalor without the kind and able ministrations of whitey is about as disparaging an assumption as one can make. It reflects the true inner state of the regressive mindset of those who identify as "left". They rant endlessly that people of color are equal, yet their demands suggest nothing other than that they see such people are inferior, the only path to equal outcomes being accessible only through the white man's hand. If we go with the assumption of equal potential, then the white regressive suite of views and the attendant demands become absurd on their faces, to the point of blatant idiocy. Nobody who accepts that we as individual human beings hold broadly similar capacities for attaining prosperity can take seriously the thinly veiled racial bias of the regressive leftist, whose deeds contravene their claimed ideals and assumptions. Their behavior represents the pinnacle of disingenuous hypocrisy, and a strong will to stupidity and outright evil.
"People of color" serves only to divide us. There are evil whites over here, and over there are their victims, the poor, hapless, feckless, abused, and helpless people of color. Oh, the humanity! Once again we see just how nakedly ridiculous this all proves when one steps away from the emotional manipulation and examines the deeper implications. That is the fly in the leftist ointment where this linguistic tactic is concerned: the moment a man decides to place all these slogans and other expressions under even the least scrutiny, the duplicitous nature becomes clear. The man will right away become more curious and endeavor to dig more deeply. Once that path is undertaken, there is no going back, and that is why the peddlers of leftist imbecility endeavor with such vigor to keep their people ginned up with raw emotions, that they have no time to relax, which might lead them to reflect. Thinking is the one thing the Tyrant cannot tolerate in his useful idiots. They must be constantly diverted from deeper thought by keeping their emotions wound up like watch springs about to come apart.
There is no aspect of the expression "people of color" that carries the least virtue. It is a contrivance of pure evil, intended to destroy human relations such that they are reduced to a most rudely confrontational nature. After all, were we to come together in natural friendship, the so-called "left" would have absolutely nothing left to peddle. Their entire house is built upon the foundation of hate-ridden bitterness, envy, and confrontation. They rarely, if ever, speak in positive terms, save their fog-bound references to the usual terms such as love, etc., but which never see any practical traction. In practice, it is always the negative emotions based in hatred and fear that come to the measurable fore. Lefties never swarm the streets to hug people, shake their hands, or share kind sentiments. On the mean, those of the left, always move to hurt and destroy in fits of anger- and terror-ridden venting. They are precisely those things against which they expend so much time and energy expelling their venom in projection.
Its glaring absurdity notwithstanding, "people of color" has proven very effective in helping realize the intermediate goals of the left. Today we stand more divided than perhaps at any other time in recent human history, demonstrating just how irrelevant logic, reason, truth, and honor really are to the average man. Johnny Q. Public wants what he wants and does not much care how he comes to attain it, so long as he is not required to work, or think, and preferably with an appearance of propriety. Given that, it is little wonder that he is so readily duped with the emotionally charged manipulations that are epitomized by expressions like "people of color", if they help him get what he wants...
The material solutions to this trouble are clear and quite simple. However, the greatest problem of all is that of mind and the will to do what is needed to overcome the chicanery of those who intend to rule the world as a single despotic entity. Unless enough of us choose the correct attitude, we are as good as lost.
Until next time, please accept my best wishes.
† A common euphemism for "socialist", "communist", "progressive", "regressive", all of which are interchangeable terms for the same thing: forced authoritarian collectivist despotism.
