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Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Leftists insist that we live in a society that is “systemically racist” and in need of massive reform and restructuring. The only thing lacking from this scenario is any significant evidence of actual racism, and so it has to be invented. The latest addition to the ever-growing list of things people have taken for granted from time immemorial that have now become racist is the venerable institution of marriage — at least according to (you guessed it) a white feminist professor at a leading American university.
The College Fix reported Friday that Bethany Letiecq, a professor at George Mason University, actually went so far as to publish a paper making this ridiculous claim in the Journal of Marriage and Family, which, like Letiecq, should have known better. But the academic world is firmly in the grip of the woke, and so Letiecq’s “scholarly” exploration of how marriage is racist was likely one of the saner publications to come out of George Mason in recent months.
That doesn’t mean, however, that it wasn’t filled with the pseudo-intellectual gobbledygook that passes for academic inquiry these days. “I theorize,” Letiecq announced grandly, “that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy.” Wait a minute. Before we explore what “marriage fundamentalism” could possibly be, the question must be asked: why did Letiecq capitalize “white”? Some would see that as evidence that she is racist herself, and since revolutions tend to eat their own, it wouldn’t be in the least surprising if one of her comrades accuses her of just that in the near future.
In the meantime, however, Letiecq did her best to compensate for her own sinful whiteness by claiming that “marriage fundamentalism” was the sin of believing that marriage as it has been understood by every culture and religion everywhere in the world throughout recorded history was superior to the new forms of marriage that have been cooked up over the last decade or two. Letiecq explained that this “marriage fundamentalism” could be “understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family.”
Wait a minute again. Letiecq goes on to excoriate the “structural oppression and unequal power relations” that supposedly characterize “white heteropatriarchal nuclear families,” but the racial aspect of her case appears to be stuck on to the rest of her case, simply in order to conform with today’s woke fads. It doesn’t really have anything to do with believing in the “superiority of the two-parent married family.” There have been two-parent married families since the beginning of human history, and a great many of them have been non-white.
There is absolutely nothing intrinsically white about two-parent married families. There are more intact white families than black ones in America today because ever since the advent of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the welfare system has incentivized irresponsibility and the breakup of families. For Letiecq now to be attempting to give this breakdown an academic veneer and stigmatize intact families is something even worse than irresponsible.
Letiecq, on the other hand, claims just the opposite, making the fantasy-based claim that the government has forced people to “enter into an institution built upon White heteropatriarchal supremacy.” Where has the government ever forced people to get married?
Letiecq says that “marriage as an institution has allowed white heterosexual couples ‘to gain access to benefits, rights, and protections.’” Letiecq “concludes,” says the Fix, “that only white heterosexual couples reap the social and financial benefits of marriage subsidized by the government while minority Americans do not gain any such benefits.”
That’s just a lie. Exactly which benefits, rights, and protections, Ms. Letiecq, are available to white heterosexual married couples but not to non-white couples, and for that matter not to gay couples ever since the legalization of gay marriage?
Of all the risible claims that leftists have made over the past few years, this is one of the most ridiculous, as well as one of the most potentially destructive. The stigmatization of marriage, which Letiecq is actively abetting, could lead to more children being abandoned by their fathers, and to an intensification of all the myriad social and cultural ills that flow from that. Bethany Letiecq’s pseudo-intellectual garbage is not just silly; it’s toxic. And in that, it’s emblematic of the entire academic world in America today.
My late parents were married on Flag Day(June 14th 1946)were they Racists? Hardly
This is just another push to destroy the nuclear family. Totalitarians cannot tolerate rival sources of authority, which is why all totalitarian regimes seek to destroy religion and the family as independent institutions.
Kurukurukkurukkooo…we have surely now reached the apex of scholarly madness…please tell me it is finished. Can we produce any more ignorant, twisted maniacs in our systems of mental disease, called “education”? This is such a dangerous brain cancer and doubtless comes from the undeveloped minds of those tragic victims of affirmative action who were permitted to advance by plagiarism that prevented the actual development of the ABILITY TO THINK LOGICALLY.
I love how these self styled leftist radical university professors attack America and all aspects of Western Civilization as being evil, systemically racist and oppressive,
They want to destroy America, capitalism and all aspects of Western Civilization.
Except, of course, for their tenured jobs and 6 figure salaries.
Those they want to preserve.
Such hypocrisy is mind boggling.
Academia has become irretrievably feminized and dumbed down. It is basically preschool mush – the definition of “gobbledygook”. “Doctors” in education think at the 4th grade level – and even that gives them undeserved benefit of the doubt.
When will white people have had enough of demonization, and rebel against their bullies! We can’t escape confrontation in the long run, anyway. That’ll be the day of great relief because anger is brewing.
There is nothing complicated here. It’s just more radical nihilism. This nihilism hates anything that even resembles beauty, genius, or normalcy. If the Vatican announced it would now leave the door to the Sistine Chapel open 24 hours a day and remove the building guard, very soon afterwards someone would paint over Michelangelo’s ceiling work with three coats of white paint and embossed black bold lettering across the ceiling spelling “Fuck you.” This would be viewed as major progress in some circles.
Socialists/Communists do not create much but set out to destroy faith in all Western institutions. They are of course the transmitters of culture and by extension the objects of the left’s destruction. Giving credibility to anyone published by an elite university underscores this and the MSM’s preference for destructive subject matter.
The only way to eliminate this sort of garbage will be to defund the colleges that generate it.
Yes, yes, yes; defund, defund, defund.
And, start taxing Harvard’s, Yale’s, Princeton’s, Stanford’s, others, et al, endowments.
We should start next January. It is the quickest way to bring these fools to their senses.
Massive research across the world into what results in the best outcome for children:
1. Married parents
2. Divorced parents
3. Single parent
4. Remarried parents, parent with multiple partners.
This holds true across the globe.
Guess which country has the highest number of children raised in a single parent. Yes, of course, the US.
When I read what this “professor “ said, all I heard was “blah, blah, blah, blah”. Her words are a bunch of gobbledygook!
Parents really need to STOP sending their kids to ANY university UNLESS it can be shown that they actually EDUCATE. Too expensive, too “woke”, too many “professors” with agendas but NO common sense. What is the point of wasting all of that money when it is NOT going to do your kid or your/their pocketbook any favors?
As a parent of kids recently graduated I can tell you exactly what they learn in school, no matter what their major:
1. The world is going to end soon due to man made global warming
2. Whites are racist.
3. Cops shoot every black person they see for no reason.
4. Marriage is an evil institution and oppressive towards women.
5. Their parents are idiots.
6. Christianity is stupid and should be mocked at all times.
7. America sucks.
8. All the problems in the world are the fault of white Americans.
9. The most important and noble thing a woman can do is kill her own babies.
10 Having never read the U.S. Constitution we don’t know what’s in it, but we know it’s, like, old or something, so doesn’t apply to modern society. Oh yeah, and racist white guys wrote it.
You nailed it. Perfectly stated.
OK, Ms. Letiecq, go home to your cats and lick that pussy! Cough.
“Because they received not the love of the truth, God sends them strong delusion that they may believe a lie”. These leftists have gone over the edge without a return possible. Talking to them only pushes them deeper into their delusional, false reality. The proof will be seen in the future ruination of their lives. “Wisdom” is justified by her children”,,Jesus warned those believing and promoting lies.
The “offspring” of these poor souls will be monumental ‘dramas’ on every level of life.