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![5x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/5x5_Page_Background.gif) The New Racism Sam Aurelius Milam III
Before I started this article, I checked a few definitions of racism.
They all mentioned a belief that human character and abilities are determined by race and that one race is better than another. I think the definitions are behind the times. Modern racism includes, in addition to those old
ideas, a conviction that privileges and protections should be apportioned according to race, a belief that some races are more deserving than others.
For example, when a cop kills a black man and the black community explodes in protest, and then when a cop kills a white man and the black community ignores it, that's a form of racism. It shouldn't matter if the victim is black or white. What should matter is that a human being was killed by a cop.
When Hispanics in the electorate vote according to Hispanic interests rather than according to what's good for Americans, that's racism. Political decisions should be based on what's good for the people or for the country, not on what's good for one race.
When a political candidate seeks the vote of a racial segment of the electorate, that’s racism. When members of Congress form a caucus based on race, that’s racism. When race is the reason that a person is hired or not
hired for a job, that’s racism. When race is the reason that a person
is accepted or not accepted in a school, that’s racism. Whenever political
and policy decisions are made on the basis of race, that’s racism.
Whether or not such policies and practices are bad is a matter of opinion.
However, when they are pursued in the name of racial equality, they reveal
the ignorance or the hypocrisy of those who pursue them.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif)
Quarantine Sam Aurelius Milam III
Those Israelis who are in control of events don't want to reach an agreement with the Palestinians, but to eliminate them. Those Palestinians who
are in control of events don't want to reach an agreement with the Israelis,
but to eliminate them. Members of moderate factions in either group
won't have much effect on the course of events. Indeed, events will
tend to radicalize members of moderate factions, reducing the effectiveness
of those factions. Israelis and Palestinians will continue to maim
and murder one another, and to destroy one another's economies and infrastructures,
for as long as they have the resources to do it. When they are finally
no longer capable of it, then they will stop doing it. The longer they
continue to receive aid and support from outsiders, the longer they will
continue to fight.
Assuming that the goal of the U.S. government in the Middle East is peace,1 there is only one rational policy available. That policy is to immediately, completely, and without further notice, terminate any and all government aid
or assistance to either the Israelis or the Palestinians. Commercial transactions can continue as determined by free market forces. However, the U.S. government should not give one more iota of any kind of help to either
of the warring groups. If they insist on exterminating one another,
then let them do it with their own resources, not with the support of U.S.
taxpayers.
What the Israelis and Palestinians are doing to one another is a kind of
disease. There isn't a cure. The best thing that can be done
is to isolate them to the greatest extent possible, hope it doesn't spread,
and let it run its course, however long that may take. Maybe the survivors
will be temporarily immune. There isn't any permanent immunity to hatred.![10x5 Page Background GIF Image](../../Images/10x5_Page_Background.gif) ![Gun](../../Images/Gun.gif)
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