Get hold of old speeches and publications from Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s. Scratch out the words 'Jew' and 'Jewish' and replace them with 'White' and 'Whiteness'. Then you can be invited to any hipster leftwing party. Or, apparently, get a cushy job at one of our fine modern institutions of higher learning.
Thus. Yep. It's not even trying to act with a wink and a nod. It literally speaks of the plague of whiteness in ways reminiscent of the warnings against the corruption of Jewishness in Nazi Germany. From the university page:
Racism is an epidemic (CDC, 2021) that can also be considered a pandemic given its large cross-national proportion and spread (APA, 2020). However, there is another pandemic lurking behind and driving the racism pandemic – the Whiteness Pandemic. Whiteness refers to culture not biology: the centuries-old culture of Whiteness features colorblindness, passivity, and White fragility, which are all covert expressions of racism common in the United States. Naming the Whiteness Pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects of racism onto the systems that perpetrate and perpetuate racism, starting with the family system. At birth, young children growing up in White families begin to be socialized into the culture of Whiteness, making the family system one of the most powerful systems involved in systemic racism.
Compare:
The Jew caused our misery and lives from it today. That is why we nationalists and socialists oppose the Jews. The Jew has corrupted our race, soiled our morals, undermined our values, and broken our strength. He is the reason we today are the pariah of the whole world. As long as we were German, he was a leper among us. When we forgot our German nature, he triumphed over us and our future.
I'll let you guess who said that last one.
Sure, people will point out that many (though notice not all) on that university page are white. White professionals happily ensconced in their own careers it should be noted. I've noticed that many white liberals who have no problem demanding we correct the unfairness of white privilege are, themselves, quite privileged. And while they might bemoan the unfair advantage they have in life owing to their whiteness, it never seems to lead them to relinquish those careers and go flip burgers so a minority could be hired instead.
Why did white Americans flock to Trump and the GOP last election? Why did young white Americans, that age group historically tending to swing left of center, swing to the right? Because the white American liberals who look like them with six figure salaries seem hellbent on making sure those white American liberals are the last people who look like them who will be able to have six figure salaries. That's why.
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| Proxy Martyrdom in a nutshell, and apparently a staple for white liberalism |
(Tom New Poster)
ReplyDeleteStuff reads like a cut and paste of "toxic masculinity", probably because many of the concoctors are the same sort of cranky single woman "educated" beyond her intelligence.
Yup...there are a lot of women who are educated beyond their intellectual means and have unused mothering instincts that have to go somewhere.
DeleteThat too. I didn't think on it, but it does look heavily driven by liberal women. I wonder if that's a trend in general.
DeleteMinnesota just breeds a special kind of stupid, to be perfectly honest. I say this as one who grew up there. Mostly it's the Twin Cities area, but it trickles out everywhere as well. Luxury beliefs coupled with a righteous indignation untempered by orthodox Christian teaching or even a general understanding of human nature. It's just a toxic cocktail for anyone with any common sense at all.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem to have a tendency toward the crazy.
DeleteThis is the sad result of prioritizing membership in a discreet group instead of your own accomplishments as the most important thing in your life. If you fail to uphold your group you destroy your own self esteem. Some groups have been the center of developments which lift up the entire human race. Other groups have not. The improvements however were done by individuals, not the groups to which they belonged. Thomas Sowell has made enormous contributions to the study of economics. The fact that he is black is irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteThis focus on uplifting your group, when it is obvious that your group has contributed little or nothing does breed envy and resentment. Which gives us these pathetic complaints about 'whiteness'. These women would be well advised to study successful people and emulate them. Their color doesn't matter.
I had never heard of Sowell until years and years into adulthood. Which speaks volumes right there. But much of it, as others have noticed, seems driven by white liberal Americans of independent means making sure they are the last white Americans able to achieve independent means. With dispensations for their own children and grandchildren no doubt.
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