Al Sharpton.White Guilt-White Privilege Shakedown

Posturing is a basic element in conflict, at least at the primitive level.  Many animals and even fish can make themselves look bigger and more dangerous than they actually are, and, as stated by chess 

grandmaster Aron Nimzowitsch, "the threat is stronger than the execution."  Lt. Colonel David Grossman adds in Killology, "In the territorial and mating battles of every species the individual who puffs itself up the biggest or makes the loudest noise is most likely to win; this process is referred to as 'posturing.'"

Posturing is the foundation of politically correct shakedowns by, for example, Al Sharpton.  "For more than a decade, corporations have shelled out thousands of dollars in donations and consulting fees to Sharpton's National Action Network. What they get in return is the reverend's supposed sway in the black community or, more often, his silence."  Posturing without substance is similarly the foundation of the white guilt and white privilege shakedown scam.

Posturing was effective when combatants could see one another face to face.  Ardant du Picq wrote, "Each nation in Europe says 'No one stands his ground before a bayonet charge made by us.' And all are right."  The menace of a bayonet charge was often enough to get the other side to turn and run, whereupon it could be massacred, but the industrialization of warfare changed this.  Belligerents learned the hard way during the First World War that you cannot browbeat or intimidate a machine gun, but that lesson goes back even farther to the Russo-Japanese War.  Mikhail Dragomirov was fond of quoting Aleksandr Suvorov's maxim that the bullet is stupid while the bayonet is a fine fellow, but the bullet had learned during the century after Suvorov's death how to be fired from a magazine rifle rather than a muzzle-loading musket.

Alternatively, as stated in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, "[s]omehow, every time the magic of folderol tried conclusions with the magic of science, the magic of folderol got left."  This, ladies and gentlemen, is where the magic of political correctness gets left.

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