Dr. Jenn Jackson is a professor of political science
at Syracuse University. Dr. Jackson’s website biography reads, "Jenn M.
Jackson (they/them) is a queer genderflux androgynous Black woman, an
abolitionist, a lover of all Black people, and an Assistant Professor at
Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science." (A genderflux
androgynous woman?!)
Why do I mention…er…um…them? Because Jackson published
a series of tweets on Friday, September 10th, in which she they
made preposterous claims about the motive for the terrorist attacks of 9/11
that killed nearly 3,000 innocent Americans of every race, creed, gender,
sexual orientation, and color.
Jackson huffed, "It's twenty years since
9/11 and I'm still really disturbed by how many white pundits and
correspondents talk about it. I'm watching [White House chief of staff on 9/11]
Andy Card and [Former Homeland Security Secretary] Jeh Johnson on MSNBC. Card
just said that 9/11 was the first time that Americans ever felt fear. He said
that it was the last morning we woke up without fear and that the 'terrorists'
succeeded in introducing us to fear."
She they continued: "White Americans might not
have really felt true fear before 9/11 because they never felt what it meant to
be accessible, vulnerable, and on the receiving side of military violence at
home. But, white Americans' experiences are not a stand-in for 'America. Plenty
of us Americans know what it's like to experience fear and we knew before 9/11.
For a lot of us, we know fear *because* of other Americans."
Way to take a massive and unspeakable tragedy, but
one that united the nation for a time, and use it to divide, demean, and
denigrate, Jenn. Yet, there is some truth to that particular statement. Think
of the thousands of Americans murdered every year due to Democratic policies
and Black on Black crime. Far too many Americans know that fear.
Dr. J soldiered on, stating, “We have to be clear
that the same motivations that animated America’s hypervigilance and
responsiveness to ‘terror’ after 9/11 are now motivating the carceral state and
anti-immigration policy.” This, of course, is exactly, 180 degrees wrong. We
have been arbitrarily (okay, COVID) letting criminals out of prisons by
the countless thousands. We aren’t jailing many of them anymore to begin with. Many
areas of the country have dispensed with bail requirements. Four of the five
Taliban members released
from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by then President Obama in 2014 are
now part of the Taliban government in Afghanistan!
Jackson complains about our supposed
“hypervigilance.” Should we have done nothing? She they put “terror” in
quotes, as if this, too, was an overreaction by overly sensitive straight white
male pundits and observers. I mean, it wasn’t nearly as bad as “1/6,” when a
couple of windows were broken, the only person to die due to the deliberate
actions of another was a diminutive female Trump supporter, and Congresspeople were
back in the “terrorist ravaged” Capitol building a few hours later. Right,
Jenn?
And then Jackson opined, "We have to be more
honest about what 9/11 was and what it wasn't. It was an attack on the heteropatriarchal capitalistic systems that America relies upon to wrangle other countries
into passivity. It was an attack on the systems many white Americans fight to
protect.”
This literally couldn’t be less honest/correct/truthful.
Does anyone really think 19 Saudis (or Taliban members today) would want to
attack or destroy America because it was a largely heterosexual society?
They stone gays and imprison them! And does anybody believe all these militant
male Muslims fervently dislike the patriarchy here? They keep women in
the home, covered in drapery, deem them unfit for government, and immolate them
for serving a bad meal!
What the hell?!! No one is that dumb or
uninformed. Most statements like this aren’t “ignorant” or “inaccurate.” Leftists
and would-be totalitarians say things like this calculatedly, deliberately. It’s
a tactic, a ploy to accuse those they hate of doing what they do, of being what
they are. And I am sick of it. And I am really sick of the fact that so
many Republicans and even conservatives let them get away with it.
The truth is that Dr. Jenn Jackson would love to
eviscerate what she they mistakenly believes to be America’s entrenched “heteropatriarchal
capitalistic systems.” That is why she they publish statements such as
this.
By Jackson’s “reasoning,” Japan attacked Pearl
Harbor because of American’s love of Bushido
and sake.
The U.S. eventually “wrangled” Japan (and Germany) “into
passivity.” But took none of their land, and promptly built them into arguably the
two biggest economic powerhouses on earth other than itself. Both the former
and the latter were made possible by capitalism, and capitalism only.
“We have to be more honest” about why those on The
Left do what they do.
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