How did we get here? Back in the ’90s, it seemed like we’d finally solved most of our racial problems. Yet, here we are in the 2020s, mired down in racial division so extreme that it threatens to tear whole nations apart. How did we get here?
It’s not as if racism has suddenly resurged – at least, not the traditional boogeyman of white supremacy, no matter what the left media might shriek and gibber. In fact, by objective measures, white, Western countries are among the least racist in the world. Yet, the media, the chattering classes and the political left just can’t stop bellowing for all they’re worth about “racism” – even as they push some of the most overtly racist policies we’ve seen in half a century.
How did we get here?
In fact, to understand just how, in fact, we got here, we have to go way back to the heyday of Soviet communism.
A key tactic of communist activists is to take advantage of countries’ racial differences in an attempt to foment grievances and gain power for themselves.
The Epoch Times
This was most evident during the Cold War. Notwithstanding their own racism – the Soviets ruthlessly suppressed ethnic minorities, as well as exploiting anti-Semitism under the code-phrase “rootless cosmopolitan” – the communists cynically exploited America’s racial convulsions during the Civil Rights era.
It was part of a plan put in place in 1928 by the Comintern – the Communist International, whose mission was to spread the communist revolution around the world. The plan initially called for recruiting Southern blacks and pushing for “self-determination in the Black Belt.” By 1930, the Comintern had escalated the aims of its covert mission, and decided to work toward establishing a separate black state in the South, which would provide it with a beachhead for spreading the revolution to North America.
The Soviets also exploited the oppression of Southern blacks for their own economic benefit. It was the height of the Great Depression, and the Soviet Union was positioning itself not only as a workers’ utopia, but as a racial utopia as well, one where ethnic, national, and religious divisions didn’t exist.
Which was all a lie, of course, but it was music to the ears of many American blacks. Even Martin Luther King Jr briefly fell for the ruse. At least, until he actually read Marx for himself and realised what a load of rubbish it really was.
Too many others, though, were less discerning.
In addition to luring thousands of white American workers, it brought over African-American workers and sharecroppers with the promise of the freedom to work and live unburdened by the violent restrictions of Jim Crow. In return, they would help the Soviets build their fledgling cotton industry in Central Asia. Several hundred answered the call.
Many ended up in the Gulag. Others fled back to America, where even Jim Crow was preferable to the realities of communism. A handful of nomenklatura remained though – and so did the communist exploitation of racism, real or imagined.
The Soviets may have expired, but the cynical fake news exploitation never did.
According to a spate of recent reports, accounts tied to the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency – a Russian “troll factory” – used social media and Google during the 2016 electoral campaign to deepen political and racial tensions in the United States. The trolls, according to an interview with the Russian TV network TV Rain, were directed to focus their tweets and comments on socially divisive issues, like guns. But another consistent theme has been Russian trolls focusing on issues of race […]
Except for the technology used, however, these tactics are not exactly new. They are natural outgrowths of a central component of covert influence campaigns, like the one Russia launched against the United States during the 2016 election: make discord louder; divide and conquer.
The Atlantic
At the same time as the Soviets were assiduously stoking tensions to undermine the United States during the Cold War, they suckered in dozens of African and South American nations. It’s no coincidence that so many newly independent former colonies became socialist or communist dictatorships.
And, just as the same covert tactics are being used to undermine the US today, they’re being wielded against even the smallest states at the ends of the Earth.
A clear example of this is unfolding in New Zealand among the native Maori population. The tactics being used are straight from the communist playbook, and can be easily recognized.
The Epoch Times
If you’re still wondering how New Zealand and Australia arrived at the blatantly racist co-governance agenda, well, now you know.
