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Derekian Chauvinism

Years ago, Derek Chauvin unintentionally killed George Floyd by kneeling on his neck at an arrest point. The US justice misnamed his action a "Third degree murder", as if killing operates at boiling point measured in Celsius scale.

Chauvinism is a word used to describe excessive and often irrational loyalty or bias towards a particular group, such as one's own gender, nationality, or beliefs. 

It can manifest as an unjust belief in the superiority of one's own group and the denigration or discrimination against other groups. For example, sexism, nationalism, and religious chauvinism are specific forms of this behavior when it relates to gender, nationality, or religion, respectively. Chauvinism can be harmful and contribute to discrimination and prejudice.

However, Derek Chauvin's version was different. Angry protesters branded it as an unjust action directed at the black-race, based on the US historical records of division among colour-lines. It was heuristics, and indeed schematic.

Derekian Chauvinism still exists.  Military junta in few countries in Africa is a kneeling on the neck of democracy.

The Russian invasion in Ukraine, the Rohingya victims of racial stereotype in India,  the continual occupation of isreali army in the Palestinian west bank, and the rigging of elections down-playing the rights of citizens in most countries of the global south, just a mention of a few, were all replications of on-the-neck-kneeling. 

Like virus, Derekian Chauvinism had infected the world before it began.


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