“It Really Is That Simple” Says John Hinderaker…

I have decided to take John’s latest more seriously than it likely merits, given his scant reasoning capacity — at least as displayed therein.

As is often intoned, by wise old men — “if the answer to a complex problem looks quite simple, almost immediately… you may safely assume you do not really understand the problem,” at all.

Said less charitably, and more bluntly — in deference to John’s waning intellect — “everything really is quite simple… to a simpleton.”

John is a simpleton. Certainly, on this topic he is: tonight he’s decided than an entire field of emerging sociological study… is (wait for it!) UN-american. So — is John’s current sociological bogeyman… a Hilterian eugenics based theory of a master-race? No. Is it… the phrenology / criminality theories of some in law enforcement, during the late 19^th Century? Nope.

Not at all — but on account of it, Hinderaker tells his audience this, as his conclusion:

“…Still, for the minority who pay attention, the issue is clarifying: Donald Trump and the Republicans are pro-American, Joe Biden and the Democrats are anti-American. It really is that simple….”

What is it?

What could it be? The rejection of what theory… might make Republicans more “American” than Democrats?

Oh — it is a theory about… racism.

So — let us speak plain, then: John’s abiding belief is that it is pure racism that is what makes a “good” Republican — and a “better“… American, than any Democrat working to mitigate the effects of those pernicious views.

For all critical race theory (John’s bogeyman, tonight) really says… is that all of us harbor biases. And we all know, we do — if we are honest with ourselves. [John plainly cannot be honest with himself, of course.]

All critical race theory asks us each to do — is examine carefully the ways in which we may even unconsciously be biased against (or for) someone or some thing or some… group.

That sort of self inspection is deeply terrifying to John — because he catches glimpses of it each morning, in the mirror — as he shaves — he sees, in fleeting, all the wrong he is only to happy to benefit from, without even considering whether those are things he earned any right to accept… a benefit from.

So — instead, he will paint a sociological theory… as Un-American. Self reflection is… Un-American, to Hinderaker, Trump and the jug-headed co-conspirators… of each.

And that is indeed fundamentally telling — just not in quite the way John thinks.

I’m out, now.