Mental gymnastics

Grim reports some difficulty coloring between the lines of hazy community guidelines, so I thought I should post this primer, starting with a PJ Media piece on the white supremacy of advocating early rising.

Now, some of you might be thinking you'd hesitate to stereotype persons of nonpallor as tending to sleep late or otherwise lacking drive and ambition. You may have been brought up to think that that would be a little racist, and if you had to report research showing a correlation between skin color and alarm clocks, you'd tread very carefully, in the manner of Charles Murray, not that it would do you any more good than it's done him, you racist.

Here's the trick. You may freely engage in this kind of offensive stereotype as long as the purpose is to speak truth to the Colonizing Patriarchy, and only in the context of arguing that any preference for early rising, drive, or ambition is itself a sin, that is to say, a violation of Community Guidelines^TM. Admiring hard work "suggests that Asian Americans are doing well and that if other groups would only work harder, have stronger family bonds and get over their histories of oppression, they too would succeed." Why this suggestion is off limits is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer, and left as an exercise for the reader--but don't work too hard on it.

I'm prepared to supply you with a hint, however:

The pro-Asian "model minority" myth pits people of color against one another and creates a hierarchy in which Asian people are often represented at the top. By putting people of color in competition with one another, the myth distracts us from striving together toward liberation for all.

You see the deft approach: obviously you must put people in competition with one another on the basis of their skin color, but you must not do so when it comes to groups of different non-white colors, because that would be divisive. We are to work together toward liberation for all, as long as you understand what we mean by "all," again intuitively obvious, no need to prioritize logic over Community Guideline^TM-approved modes of being.

Also, when I say "work," I certainly don't mean to imply that working harder consistently yields valuable results, you colonizer. To be safe, eliminate the word "work" from your cognitive vocabulary. We are to cooperate in a warmly relaxed communitarian sense towards shared goals that fall like the gentle rain from heaven, without hierarchies of goals, unless used to place the wrong goals at the bottom of the heap.

Alternatively, Asians don't actually have color, in common with some Hispanics. We're still working on that orthodoxy and will get back to you when we think you need to know.