Do White Leftists Really Hate Themselves?Having rich tastes and a fashionable ZIP code does not prevent such a person from doing nasty (and, yes, antiwhite racist) things.
By Paul Gottfried
March 27, 2023
For about a decade a self-described “conservative” has been flooding me with email notes arguing that woke white leftists do not, in fact, dislike other whites. In fact, such seeming antiwhite radicals adore their whiteness. White leftists live in the same neighborhoods with other whites, dress the same way, and send their children to heavily white institutions. For all their talk about being for blacks, these white leftists are just hypocrites. They don’t give up their professional positions for members of other races or sexual orientations, and whatever set asides and preferential hiring these virtue-signalers claim to be working toward, many or most of their colleagues are racially the same as they are.
Admittedly the situation we’re describing is historically rare. Most examples of discrimination and exclusion in human history have involved a majority group establishing for itself a superior position relative to a despised or unwelcome minority. Sometimes the pecking order changed over time, so that the Athenians extended their franchise to the lower orders and made them eligible for public offices, while the Roman founding fathers over several centuries extended rights to the plebeian class. But what made that situation different from the current American one is that other societies in which rights were extended did not gnash their teeth in self-mortification over someone’s past exclusion. They just extended certain rights to those who had not previously exercised them.
Watching American whites writhing in agony over past discrimination against nonwhites strikes me as utterly bizarre. The fact that this collective behavior becomes even more fitful or convulsive the further one moves away from slavery or legal segregation, makes it look even more grotesque. Yes, I’m aware that black urban society has disintegrated, and this may overshadow for residents of inner cities the acquisition of certain rights and even the enforcement of what is misleadingly called equity. Still the continued or increasing social dysfunctionality of inner-city residents does not explain the paroxysms of self-hate that many whites now routinely indulge in. Disintegrating black family life and high black crime rates hardly justify elaborate public rituals of white self-rejection and passionate condemnation of the civilization that white Westerners built.
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https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/27/do-white-leftists-really-hate-themselves/
