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Verified Hate: Take the MF'ers Out, by Gregory Hood

8-12-2022 < UNZ 49 628 words
 

In October 2021, Rutgers Professor Brittney Cooper said whiteness needed an expiration date and that “we gotta take those mother***ers out.” Christopher Rufo, an opponent of Critical Race Theory, seemingly discovered or rediscovered the clip and made it viral again.



No doubt Professor Cooper would explain that she means “whiteness” as a social construct that must be taken out. She doesn’t literally mean killing whites. However, especially with Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, some media figures are saying someone must regulate possibly dangerous or inaccurate speech. At least one person even called censors “frontline” workers now, as if they were police or soldiers protecting us from real danger.








Journalists and academics often accused President Donald Trump of “stochastic terrorism” for allegedly inspiring violence, not by making a direct call to action but by inciting hatred generally.


From that perspective, it’s hard not to think of the words “take these mother****ers out” when you read a story like this.




This old white man, who still chose to work at age 83, died trying to uphold the virtues of a high-trust society that he may have remembered from his youth.




I don’t believe speech necessarily leads to violence. Still, the most powerful academic and media organizations in the world use violent language about whites. They assert that inequality is due to white racism. If there is such a thing as “stochastic terrorism,” American media and academia are inciting it.


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