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Who Originated the Term “Racist” And Why?Posted on October 18, 2012By Al Benson Jr.We have all heard the term “Racist” often more than we care to. It seems as if the politically correct draw the word like a pistol every time they want to verbally mow someone down. Unfortunately it often works and the person who has been labeled a racist or guilty of “white racism” (it’s always white racism, never racism of any other color) slinks off into a corner somewhere and remains silent from then on out, which was the reason for using the term to begin with. It silences dissent.In an article on http://patdollard.com published in 2010 the origin of the word is dealt with. The article observes: “The word ‘racist’ has for a long time been the single most effective fear-word in the leftist and neoconservative arsenal. For decades they have successfully used it in the political arena to slander traditionalists, shut down debate, and leave opponents running for cover…What surprisingly remains almost totally undisclosed, even on the hard core traditionalist Right, is the word’s origin. Did it come from a liberal sociologist? A 60s Marxist college professor? Perhaps a politician in the Democratic Party? No, it turns out that the word was invented by none other than one of the principal architects of the 74-year Soviet nightmare, the founder and first leader of the infamous Red Army, Leon Trotsky.”The article notes Leon Trotsky’s 1930 work, The History of the Russian Revolution and it shows a passage from that book. The last word in a particular passage in that book has a Latin transliteration which is “racistov”, i.e., “racists” The article says: “This work here is the first time in history one will ever find that word.”So, if this article is correct, the originator of the term “racist” is the original Trotskyite.However, the dubious foundation of the term has not kept college professors and other instructors of our young folks from latching onto the term and co-opting it for propaganda purposes. Trotsky would be overjoyed!In the summer of 2007 I did an article for http://albensonjr.com dealing with the University of Delaware when they tried to implement a mandatory program that required all residence hall students to acknowledge that “all whites are racist.” An article on http://voices.yahoo.com for November 1, 2007 noted: “Citing that racism is a term that applies ‘to all white people living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, cultural or sexuality’ The school goes on to offer ‘treatment’ for any ‘incorrect attitudes’ the students might have upon entering the school.” So the school planned on offering treatment to white students with “Incorrect attitudes” presumably to help to expunge their sin for being born white. The author of the article said: “Wow! To think I once left a Communist country to get away from such oppressive left wing doctrine only to find it within a state university in the United States of America.” How far is all this away from George Orwell’s “thought police” or “thoughtcrime?”
