Political Correctness In Invisible Man

71% of Americans feel that “Political correctness is silencing discussions that need to be had”. (CATO) This statistic is very telling about the control that activist groups have on our speech and discourse. People aren’t able to voice the concerns about the danger they see in the violent practices that activist groups engage in. Activists will use guilt and shame tactics in order to silence voices from giving fair criticism to the more questionable parts of movements. Because of this silence, the groups are not able to face criticism and correct the parts of themselves that are problematic.
Activist groups will often guilt and shame non conformers when they are faced with criticisms. In Invisible Man, we see this tactic used by Ras the
Ras the Exhorter is incredulous, that someone could find fault with his movement, and guilts the Narrator, saying that “You my brother, mahn. Brothers are the same color; how the hell you call these white men brother? Shit, mahn. That's shit! Brothers the same color. We sons of Mama Africa, you done forgot?” By saying this, Ras is clearly trying to insinuate that he is a betrayer for not supporting Ras’s movement. (17 We can see parallel reactions from Black Lives Matter and Antifa when people refuse to support them. Antifa is an organization that promotes peace-by any means necessary. This can mean “Violence, fires, property damage, hand to hand combat” (CNN). People have been justifiably calling out the more questionable methods of the Black Lives Matter and Antifa movement. Black Lives Matter is an organization which likes to proclaim that it is working against racism peacefully, even though its website encourages violence. For example on their website “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are
Bret Weinstein, an Evergreen professor was harassed and called racist for refusing to leave campus during the clearly racist “Day of Absence”, propagated by Black Lives Matter. He was “cornered by students” who shouted that he was a racist, while other students patrolled the hallways wearing masks and carrying weapons. Weinstein fled the school for “literal fear of his safety”. (The College Fix). This mentality is scarily similar to the one shared by Ras the Exhorter. People that are willing to call into question someone’s character for a simple disagreement. Another instance of these guilt and shame tactics being used can be witnessed in a video that went viral of a Black Lives Matter supporter shaming a black trump supporter, who was only 16 years old. When the young black supporter simply said that he supported Trump and expressed frustration towards Hillary Clinton, the Black Lives Matter supporter said that the young man was a “Disgrace to America for being a young black man” supporting Trump, and ought to be ashamed of himself. The BLM supporter argued, incorrectly, that Donald Trump wanted to send “you back to Africa”, saying that Trump had said this on “Live TV”. This is not true. Trump, while far from perfect, has never expressed such an awful thing. The young man