Reclaim your language!

Much has been said about racism. So much, in fact, that the term has lost most of its impact and became yet another duckspeak word - spoken straight from the primitive brain and bypassing the cortex on the way to the mouth. It became a weapon, nothing but empty propaganda.

But it doesn't mean that racism doesn't exist. The opposite - it flourishes, nurtured by political correctness which emptied the word of all meaning. And since post-colonialism's nonsensical but oh-so-very politically correct meme took root in Western consciousness, racism became something only whites are guilty of. Gates of Vienna had an interesting article about this, naming the phenomen "Caucasophobia". I ran into it in the comments on Sandmonkey - some hunam making baseless claims about USA being racist, and believing that it must be true simply because many of the top administrators in USA government are white.

So, what do we get for slaughtering a vital meme?
Any discourse on racism of non-whites becomes impossible - if the speaker is white, it just means you're being racist (on basis of criticising non-whites). And if the speaker is not white, well, who gives a fuck? You're a noble savage at best. Just ask the academia - you, my dear non-white hunam, are not responsible for yourself. You're just a victim. Shut up and get back to suffering for the cameras. All your problems are the Whities' fault, anyway, and you can't do nuffin' about 'em.

And it works. George Orwell was right - language defines thought. And since from a Western POV Arabs are not whites, this doesn't happen. And all the fascinating things happening in Saudi Arabia, for example. Must look for root causes - Evil Caucasian Oppression. The Jooz are probably involved somehow, too.

Just a random rant. Special thanks to Hipster for a beautifully written post about racism she experienced.

PS

If you're for some obscure reason insulted by the above, there are two options - (a)you have had your sense of sarcasm surgically removed or (b) you're looking to be insulted.

Either way, meditate on this Discordian Koan: "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke".