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The New Yorker has outdone itself again, publishing yet another bizarre article. This time, the magazine is essentially claiming that the act of “sleeping” is somehow racially charged. According to them, rest and relaxation are exclusively white privileges. The New Yorker suggests that black individuals are rarely depicted at rest, and if you’re not floored by the “powerfulness” of an image showing a black person sleeping, then you’re a racist.

Apologies for this being one of the most absurd things you’ll read today, but it’s crucial to keep an eye on the lunacy coming from the left.

The New Yorker:

The politicization of rest is rooted in earlier Black feminist writings: Alice Walker’s novel “Meridian” (1976) and Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Salt Eaters” (1980) both document the physical and psychic danger of fatigue for Black women activists. Both works anticipate Audre Lorde’s and hooks’s calls for Black self-care—which Lorde, in her 1988 book “A Burst of Light,” describes as “an act of political warfare.” The pandemic, along with the latest wave of movement activism, has revived interest in rest. In 2022, the theologian Tricia Hersey published “Rest Is Resistance,” a best-selling manifesto that calls all people, but especially Black people, to slow down, not as a means toward future productivity but as an act of defiance. Earlier this year, Sosa and Navild Acosta’s participatory installation, “Black Power Naps,” which was first presented in 2018 and had its New York début in 2019, at Performance Space, was staged (with a bit more strain) at the predominantly white space of moma. The curators invited guests to sleep and lounge as a means of “refus[ing] institutionalized exhaustion” and “redistribut[ing] idleness, down time, and quality sleep.”

Elite liberal ideologues are so incredibly bored that they’re now politicizing naps, for the love of God. Where does this end?

It’s hard to believe this article isn’t satire.

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