We have always been ardent believers in free speech and have taken a lifelong position in opposition to censorship of any kind. Nevertheless, we would strongly champion the surgical excision of one word, viz. “Race,” from the American lexicon. (Ref: our early blog, “The Dirtiest Word”). Said malignant word or concept has no scientific justification; it is, rather, a pernicious social construct assigned by the arbitrary rules of society and constitutes the fundamental basis for an eternal blemish on the history of humankind. As stated in the earlier cited blog, the word’s sole utility is the production of societal mischief. It is our earnest recommendation that a selected and skilled surgeon, possessing a measure of literary consciousness, take the lexicon scalpel to it in exacting fashion, hopefully, to retard its universally eternal and virulent metastasis.
The toxic history of the calamitous word has been as timeless as it has been unjust and tragic. It has utility only for those disreputable human beings who seek to dominate or to profit from others, to assuage neurotic feelings of inadequacy, or to cater to an insatiable need for perceived power. The victims of the word and concept, have eternally suffered deprivation of their liberty and opportunity for a normal and acceptable life. The pernicious noun has historically been the tool of human injustice and misery of every kind from diminished opportunities and social degradation to slavery and actual genocide; it is as societally ubiquitous as it is inhuman, in that it is religiously sanctioned by the “Good Book.” “The Word,” it appears, might need a bit of surgery, as well.
The historically, deplorable existence of our Nation’s black slavery is universally known, and, sadly, its iniquitous impact persists today in the atavistic and immoral bigotry of many populist citizens; notably and shamefully, in our past President. Anti-Semitism is a chronic racial pathology festering at least since the Holy Roman Empire, (4th Century) then part of Emperor Constantine’s tactical program to forcibly convert the recalcitrant Hebrews to Christianity. European pogroms, assassinations at Babyn Yar, the Holocaust, such haters as Father Mc Laughlin, Henry Ford, and the contemporary Christian White Militias, bear ugly witness to the eternal existence of racial anti-Semitism.
In the years before World War 2, Jews were socially acceptable in Mussolini’s Italy, with many rising to the highest rank in that nation’s military and elevated social status. However, when Hitler came to power, Italian Jews began to suffer the identically gruesome fate of their German and European counterparts; the pathology of racial antisemitism had arrived and efficiently become epidemic.
It is instructive to observe that the defamatory anti-immigration demagoguery of the past President, Donald Trump, is empirically, more racist than xenophobic. Trump’s “First Lady,” past wives, and grandfather were all immigrants. The target of Trump’s hatred is, observably racial, being directed towards immigrants from Mexico and Central America as opposed to those from Europe.
The abominable word “race,” and its atavistic practice have eternally become the fundamental rationale for hatred and bigotry. Its exigent and immediate surgical excision from the American-English dictionary would scarcely be noticeable to the upright and rational American citizen.
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