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Supreme Victimology
Ten years ago, Norwegian white supremacist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people back in July of 2011. Having killed eight people in Oslo with a car bomb, then shooting 69 more, mostly teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp, Breivik came up for parole. He entered the hearing with a Nazi salute and carrying a sign printed in English, reading “Stop your genocide against our white nations.”
Meanwhile, back in the States, the Florida State Senate Education Committee approved an anti-Critical Race Theory bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called “Individual Freedom” that reads in part, “An individual should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.”
“No individual is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously, solely by the virtue of his or her race or sex,” the sponsor of the bill, Republican Sen. Manny Diaz said. “No race is inherently superior to another race.” Those are two separate observations, and while both can be essentially factual, neither statement really complements the other in any historically political sense.
Meanwhile, in the world’s greatest deliberative body, Republicans in the US Senate blocked a vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, dismissing the concerns of roughly 70% of polled American…