Microbe Invoked As Metaphor To Justify Expansive Tyranny
Ibram X. Kendi is gaining a reputation as a Karl Marx of the twenty-first century.
It seems the ideologue possesses the ability to invoke a number of issues that most sensitive individuals would like to see improved.
He then rhetorically manipulates these concerns to justify what amounts to pervasive forms of dictatorship.
In his pedagogical propaganda adopted by a number of school districts such as Montgomery County, Maryland, the plague of “systematic racism” is compared to the Coronavirus.
Throughout the lives of most Americans, to compare a social malady non-microbial in origin with an illness possessing such an etiology was nothing more than a rhetorical flourish. It just wasn’t something most had any practical experience with.
However, that unfortunately changed in the past few years.
When the discerning individual now hears the invocation of such specific phraseology, it is realized that is much more than an enthusiastic way of categorizing something as bad.
Such words are invoked to justify on the part of government and cooperating private sector institutions a wide assortment of infringed liberties often with little recourse for appealing to traditional conceptions of personal and/or property rights during the alleged emergency.
Thus, as in the case of his predecessors Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong, what Kendi offers will result not in liberation but rather the Communist oppression of those that will resist the increasingly strident demands of his particular racialist sect.
Frederick Meekins is an independent theologian and social critic. Frederick holds a BS in Political Science/History, a MA in Apologetics/Christian Philosophy from Trinity Theological Seminary, and a PhD. in Christian Apologetics from Newburgh Theological Seminary.
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