{"id":17805,"date":"2021-02-04T07:31:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17805"},"modified":"2021-02-04T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:31:58","slug":"overnight-news-racism-isnt-racism-when-its-anti-ant-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17805\/overnight-news-racism-isnt-racism-when-its-anti-ant-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Racism isn\u2019t racism when it\u2019s anti-Ant\u00a0racism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_16586\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ya think it's easy?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWhen you cheat a dog, you deserve what you\u00a0get.\u201d<\/p><\/div>The idea of &#8216;systemic&#8217; racism is stupid. People who habitually make poor choices always blame everything but themselves. But if you&#8217;re looking for ubiquitous, constant, inescapable racism, I can point you to it:<\/p>\n<p>Follow elderly Asian women in poor neighborhoods in big cities on either coast. When they go out unaccompanied, they will be visited with endless, unrelenting racist verbal and physical attacks, coming almost entirely from young black males. That would be reality, rather than &#8216;news.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/matt-margolis\/2021\/02\/03\/biden-admin-sends-message-that-some-racism-is-okay-with-dropped-lawsuit-n1422876\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">For purposes of racial despoliation, Asians are white.<\/a> So, too, most Hispanics. How can that be so? Because &#8216;white&#8217; means Ant, and Ants are to have been devoured by Grasshoppers. The people who denounce &#8216;white supremacists&#8217; insist that you are one if you respond appropriately to values and incentives \u2013 no matter what your skin color.<\/p>\n<p>Bad news for everyone, worse news for Asian kids who bust their asses believing that America is a meritocracy.<\/p>\n<p>In other news:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redfin:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/homebuyer-popular-destinations-housing-shortage-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Austin, Atlanta &amp; Tampa Are Attracting Homebuyers From More Expensive Cities, Contributing to a Housing Supply Crunch.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CNBC:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/04\/want-to-own-an-apartment-building-buy-a-distressed-hotel-cheap.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Want to own an apartment building? Buy a distressed hotel for pennies on the dollar.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The American Mind:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/biden-doesnt-need-woke-help-to-destroy-america\/?fbclid=IwAR1TWVp7_JdL6ssN_A7zVW-D8JdisrlNL-9SNlKsGhtru4i-2vuA7wEaF6Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden Doesn\u2019t Need Woke Help to Destroy America.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Kass:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/columns\/john-kass\/ct-classics-in-schools-kass-20210130-k2uluwpt2jdtxmz7zp4hl2xz2i-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erasing classic literature for kids.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>City Journal:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/k-12-science-curriculum-environment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Science Betrayed: The propaganda infecting K\u201312 science curricula, especially on the environment, won\u2019t go away.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>American Mindset:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.substack.com\/p\/contra-experts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contra Experts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen you cheat a dog, you deserve what you\u00a0get.\u201dThe idea of &#8216;systemic&#8217; racism is stupid. People who habitually make poor choices always blame everything but themselves. But if you&#8217;re looking for ubiquitous, constant, inescapable racism, I can point you to it: Follow elderly Asian women in poor neighborhoods in big cities on either coast. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18267,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18267\/overnight-news-redfin-produces-study-demonstrating-that-black-would-be-homeowners-make-substantially-poorer-choices-blames-racism\/","url_meta":{"origin":17805,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: Redfin produces \u201cstudy\u201d demonstrating that black would-be homeowners make substantially poorer choices \u2013 blames\u00a0racism.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I would dearly love it if some impresario would put me on a stage with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, so we could discuss his strategy of race piracy as a business plan. 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