A Post-Race, Post-Gender Dawn

If not for any of the changes promised in this election cycle, the dynamics on the discussion on race and gender is certainly already turning our previous assumptions on racism and sexism, racists and sexists upside down, so far. This tectonic shift can only advance our understanding of racial and sexual relations eventually, but it is far too early to assess its impact in the short term. For now though, the narrative is undergoing a major revision while the roles are being recast, adding a new twist and a new level of drama to an already emotionally charged issue.

In the rewrite, Obama, the media, and the Democratic Party, the last remaining heroes, in the old narrative have been recast as the racist and the sexist. This major shuffle is probably the most significant experiment in cognitive deprogramming since the Tunnel of Tolerance - that trendy experiment in role-playing where suspected and potential thought criminals, as determined by subjective tolerance police through politically correct markers of intolerance, are immersed in the evils of racist and sexist abuse to effect thought and behavior modification. The new roles certainly extend our range of understanding and reset the limits of our tolerance.

Watching the old guardians defend and rationalize the old markers of hate as the old villains adopt the voice and the behavior of the old heroes before the recast in the villain role is an epic political soap opera shot on location in a mental asylum. The wanton firing of accusations of racism and sexism long before this election cycle had always struck me as self-destructive, opportunistic, and obscene for pandering to the sensibilities of emotionally unstable race and gender-mongers and disrespectful to the real suffering of real victims of racism and sexism. This comedic-tragic charade will only further expose the vacuity of race and gender victimology - a lawless, petty, schizophrenic world locked in an eternal search for offense and grievance. With this world now collapsing under the weight of its own shifting arbitrariness, it is turning into a massive blackhole that swallows all our poisoned assumptions on race and gender. Suddenly, everyone is a racist and a sexist so no one is racist and sexist at last. This could be the beginning of a post-race, post-gender world.