伯克利大学历史教授反对BLM、警察暴力和文化正统的公开信
2020-06-14 18:59:30

最令人不安的是,我们的部门似乎已经完全被民主党全国代表大会,以及更广泛的民主党的利益所劫持。为了解释我的意思,考虑一下如果你选择捐赠给Black Lives Matter会发生什么,UCB History在其最近的邮件中明确促进了一个组织。所有对BLM官方网站的捐款都会立即重定向到ActBlue慈善机构,该组织主要关注为民主党候选人的选举活动提供资金。今天捐赠给BLM是间接捐赠给乔-拜登的2020年竞选。鉴于美国黑人对黑人暴力和警察对黑人暴力发生率最严重的城市绝大多数都是民主党人管理的,这就很怪异了。明尼阿波利斯本身50多年来完全掌握在民主党人手中;那里的“系统性种族主义”是由历届民主党政府建立的。

黑人内部暴力是红线、奴隶制和其他不公正的产物,这种说法主要是历史的说法。因此,要由历史学家来解释,为什么日本人的收容或欧洲犹太人的屠杀没有分别导致日本人和犹太裔美国人的功能障碍和低SES表现的同等比率。自911事件以来,阿拉伯裔美国人一直被恶意妖魔化,最近的华裔美国人也是如此。然而,这两个群体在几乎所有SES指数上的表现都优于美国白人——尼日利亚裔美国人也是如此,顺便说一句他们拥有黑色的皮肤。历史学家应该指出并讨论这些异常现象。然而,在我们部门目前的气氛下,不可能进行真正的讨论。解释是提供给我们的,不同意它的解释就是种族主义,历史学家的工作是进一步探索解释另外正确的方式。这是对历史专业的嘲讽。

作为后一个问题的例子,考虑美国黑人被监禁的比例。这个比例经常被用来描述刑事司法系统是反黑人的。然而,如果我们使用完全相同的方法,我们将不得不得出结论,刑事司法系统对男性的反感比对黑人的反感更甚。

The claim that black intraracial violence is the product of redlining, slavery, and other injustices is a largely historical claim. It is for historians, therefore, to explain why Japanese internment or the massacre of European Jewry hasn't led to equivalent rates of dysfunction and low SES performance among Japanese and Jewish Americans respectively. Arab Americans have been viciously demonized since 9/11, as have Chinese Americans more recently. However, both groups outperform white Americans on nearly all SES indices - as do Nigerian Americans, who incidentally have black skin. It is for historians to point out and discuss these anomalies. However, no real discussion is possible in the current climate at our department. The explanation is provided to us, disagreement with it is racist, and the job of historians is to further explore additional ways in which the explanation is additionally correct. This is a mockery of the historical profession.

这应该不会影响我上面的论点的力度,但声明一下,我是作为一个有色人种写的。我的家人都曾被弗洛伊德这样的人亲手害过。我们知道民主党对我们种族的傲慢掠夺。羞辱性的假设,认为我们太笨了,不适合做STEM,我们需要特殊的帮助和较低的要求才能在生活中取得进步,这对我们来说是非常熟悉的。我有时会想,与公开的法西斯主义者打交道会不会更容易些,这些人起码直截了当称呼我为非人类,他们不太可能和我同一种族。



最后一点,我们的大学和部门已经发表了多份声明,庆祝和讴歌乔治-弗洛伊德。弗洛伊德是一个多次重刑犯,他曾经用枪指着一个怀孕的黑人妇女。他带着一帮人闯进她的家,用枪指着她怀孕的肚子。他恐吓社区里的妇女。他生下并遗弃了多个孩子,没有参与他们的抚养和教育,没有通过一个人最基本的体面测试。他是一个吸毒者,有时也是毒贩子,是一个诈骗犯,他掠夺他的诚实和勤劳的邻居。

Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the 'systemic racism' there was built by successive Democrat administrations.

And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species.

As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black.

No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders. Home invaders like George Floyd. For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald's and Wal-Mart. For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.



我希望你理解这条消息背后的挫折感。我不支持BLM。我不支持民主党的申诉议程和党对我们部门的不争气的捕获。我不支持党与我的种族合作,就像拜登最近在他令人不安的采访中所做的那样,声称投票给民主党和被黑人是同构的。我谴责乔治-弗洛伊德的死亡方式,并与你一起呼吁加强警察问责制和警察改革。然而,我不会假装乔治-弗洛伊德是一个暴力的厌恶女人的人,一个残暴的人,他的结局可想而知是残酷的。

不允许讨论非黑人暴力受害者,因为非黑人暴力受害者的人数比例超过黑人。这一点在湾区尤其苦恼,亚裔被黑人袭击者伤害已经达到了流行的程度,以至于旧金山警察局长建议亚裔不要再在门上挂好运符,因为这会吸引(绝大多数是黑人)入室者的注意。像乔治-弗洛伊德这样的家庭入侵者。对于美国这种真实的、活生生的、亲身经历过的暴力现实,没有游行,没有部门负责人含泪的邮件,没有麦当劳和沃尔玛的支持。对于历史系来说,我们的沉默不仅仅是放弃了我们揭示真相的责任:更是对真相的拒绝。

一直存在的低期望值的轻度偏执,以及长期声称解决我国人民困境的办法完全依靠白人的善意,而不是依靠我们自己的辛勤工作,这在心理上是毁灭性的。在美国,没有任何其他群体被其所谓的盟友以这种方式系统地挫伤士气。整整一代黑人儿童被教导,只有通过乞讨、哭泣和尖叫,他们才能得到充满罪恶感的白人的施舍。



If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it's fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. "Those are racist dogwhistles". "The model minority myth is white supremacist". "Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime", ad nauseam.

As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach. He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors.


The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating. No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites.

如果我们宣称刑事司法系统是白人至上主义,为什么亚裔美国人、印度裔美国人、尼日利亚裔美国人的入狱率远低于美国白人?这是一种有趣的白人至上主义。即使是犹太裔美国人被监禁的比例也比外邦白人低。我认为可公正地说一般的白人至上主义者都反对犹太人。然而,这些所谓的白人至上主义者监禁外邦人的比例却远远高于犹太人。你们的文献中没有提到这些。除了手舞足蹈和自相矛盾之外,没有任何解释。"这些都是种族主义的狗哨”。”“模范少数派的神话是白人至上主义”。“只有法西斯主义者才会谈论黑对黑的犯罪”,令人厌烦。

翻译:DeepL

No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.


然而,加州大学的执政官和UCB历史系的历史学家们却在庆祝这个暴力罪犯,把他的名字提升到了虚拟的圣人。一个伤害女性的男人,一个伤害黑人妇女的男人。在UCB历史系、美国企业、大多数主流媒体以及美国一些最富有、最有特权的舆论塑造精英的通力合作下,他成了文化英雄,被埋在金棺材里,他的(公认的)家人获得馈赠和赞美。美国人正在受到社会压力,为这个暴力、虐待妇女的厌恶者下跪。一代黑人男子被胁迫认同乔治-弗洛伊德,我们种族和物种中最糟糕的标本。

没有什么信息会更肯定地摧毁他们的未来,尤其是如果白人没有了内疚感,或者实际上如果美国没有了白人。如果对日裔美国人,或者犹太裔美国人,或者华裔美国人这样做,那么唐人街和日本城肯定会和今天巴尔的摩和东圣路易斯最粗糙的地方没什么区别。UCB的历史系现在是一个完整的机构颁布者,对黑人种族的破坏性和诋毁性谬论。


I hope you appreciate the frustration behind this message. I do not support BLM. I do not support the Democrat grievance agenda and the Party's uncontested capture of our department. I do not support the Party co-opting my race, as Biden recently did in his disturbing interview, claiming that voting Democrat and being black are isomorphic. I condemn the manner of George Floyd's death and join you in calling for greater police accountability and police reform. However, I will not pretend that George Floyd was anything other than a violent misogynist, a brutal man who met a predictably brutal end.

It shouldn't affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.

绝大多数黑人社区的暴力事件都是由黑人实施的。几乎没有为这些看不见的受害者举行游行,没有公开的沉默,没有来自加州大学的学监、院长和部门负责人的心声信。信息很明确:只有当白人夺走黑人的生命时,黑人的生命才是重要的。黑人的暴力是意料之中的,是无解的,而白人的暴力则需要解释,需要解决。请扪心自问,看看这种表述到底有多畸形偏激。


The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution. Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is.



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