By Kurt Schlichter
You’ve got to admire the Democrat Party’s innovative plan to center its ideology around contempt for America’s largest ethnic group. If nothing else, the last week or so has demonstrated that the key sacrament of the Democrats has stopped being the murder of little babies, and has become the hatred of white people.
Since somewhere between 60% and 70% of Americans identify as “white” – the notion of “white” is, like most ethnic categories, ambiguous and ultimately silly – this is, as the kids say, a bold strategy.
Let’s see how it works out – but I’m betting it works out poorly.
But I am biased because I’ve seen up close and personal to the consequences of what happens when a major faction elevates ethnicity over unity. I served in the Balkans. You know, the place where the term “Balkanization” came from? Our job was to keep Ethnic Group A from murdering Ethnic Group B and vice versa, and to keep both of them from murdering Ethnic Group C. That’s the natural state of man throughout history. A significant portion of history is the story of ethnic groups killing each other.
America is an exception. It is a good exception. But our ruling class is too stupid, corrupt, narcissistic, arrogant, and historically illiterate to appreciate that.
One of the greatest achievements of the United States of America was to make its ethnic majority not think of itself as an ethnicity.
Like almost everybody except for weird outliers who most of us never encountered in our daily lives, when I was coming up in the 70s, 80s, and up through the 90s, if you had asked me or most other people of pallor “What are you?” I would have replied, “American.”
And if you had pressed me and asked, “No, I mean what are you?” I would’ve answered “American” again.
And if you had asked me a third time, I would’ve told you to get the hell away from me, cranked up the Replacements cassette playing on my Walkman, and left.
Like almost everybody except for weird outliers who most of us never encountered in our daily lives, when I was coming up in the 70s, 80s, and up through the 90s, if you had asked me or most other people of pallor “What are you?” I would have replied, “American.”
And if you had pressed me and asked, “No, I mean what are you?” I would’ve answered “American” again.
And if you had asked me a third time, I would’ve told you to get the hell away from me, cranked up the Replacements cassette playing on my Walkman, and left.
This was America’s greatest strength. Its biggest ethnic group didn’t think of itself as an ethnic group. That meant just 40 years ago, our country generally, not always but mostly, did not think of everything in ethnic terms. This amazing innovation was unknown in human history, a nation where tribalism was secondary to ideology. And that ideology was the awesomeness of America.
But, of course, leftists don’t believe in the awesomeness of America. They hate America in general – and they hate white people in particular.
Of course, many leftists are white people, but they’re different white people – at least in their own minds.
They’re not like “those kinds of white people,” the ones who go to church, fight our wars, and know which bathroom to use.
They’re the good kind of white people – the college professors, the HR directors, the HOA board members, the wine women with signs out front that read, “Hate has no home here,” with a little asterisk that indicates a footnote reading, “Except for white people. They are the worst.”
With the left, what’s old is always new again.
Of course, many leftists are white people, but they’re different white people – at least in their own minds.
They’re not like “those kinds of white people,” the ones who go to church, fight our wars, and know which bathroom to use.
They’re the good kind of white people – the college professors, the HR directors, the HOA board members, the wine women with signs out front that read, “Hate has no home here,” with a little asterisk that indicates a footnote reading, “Except for white people. They are the worst.”
With the left, what’s old is always new again.
We’re back to the ancient notion of corruption of blood, where individuals bear the alleged sins of their forefathers. If your skin is pale, you carry the responsibility for every wrong ever committed by anyone of pallor. Of course, we have that here, too, just with less bloodshed at the moment. That’s what the reparations idiocy is about.
People who never owned slaves supposedly owe some sort of debt to people who never were slaves. And then there’s the hatred of “whiteness,” which the race hustlers contend consists of such characteristics as punctuality, logic, rationality, and achievement. Somehow, these are supposed to be bad things. Actual white supremacists and leftists apparently agree that white people are amazing.
The Episcopal Church, which is out to welcome every illegal alien that wades across the Rio Grande with a fake asylum claim, literally refuses to take any more government money because it would have to settle the Afrikaners. Remember that hideous woman who looks like every leftist minister ever who lectured Trump and JD Vance about Muh Refugees? That’s her church. That’s her thing. She hates white people. I missed that part of the Bible, but in fairness, the Gospel has nothing to do with these pagan Democrat denominations.
And then Harvard, our formerly most prestigious college, suffered the leak of one of its hiring guides, which essentially said, “Don’t hire white people.” You can be assured that every other major college has such a policy; however, it’s unlikely any of them were stupid/arrogant enough to put it in writing. This is of a kind with the corporate trend toward not hiring white people.
This basically means that white Americans are the subject of a deliberate and conscious effort to keep them from opportunities, jobs, and the ability to succeed at the highest levels of society, all because of the color of their skin. It’s not because of anything they did. It’s simply because of their race.
Now, you might think this is racism, and you’d be right because you’re not an idiot.
The other side doesn’t like you using the word “racist” because, well, that’s their word. They solved the hypocrisy problem by simply defining “racism” as not including racism when it comes to whites.
It’s a nice trick, if you accept it – But we’re not accepting it.
We’re fighting back.
Trump is one manifestation of it.
The other side doesn’t like you using the word “racist” because, well, that’s their word. They solved the hypocrisy problem by simply defining “racism” as not including racism when it comes to whites.
It’s a nice trick, if you accept it – But we’re not accepting it.
We’re fighting back.
Trump is one manifestation of it.
Imagine, even five years ago, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice standing up and confronting head-on the issue of anti-white racism. That’s what it’s doing.
And the head of the Civil Rights Division, ironically, is not a European-American. Harmeet K. Dhillon could have skated to success based on her ethnicity, but instead succeeded by being awesome. Now, she is at the vanguard of this campaign to restore the basic American principle of color blindness. Full Disclosure: Harmeet is an incredible lawyer, and when we were both in private practice, I referred civil rights cases to her. And she won them.
It’s good that we’re now talking about this. We’ve been told for years by leftists how we need to have “a conversation about race” in America, and, well, here you go. We’re having it now. Enjoy. The bottom line is that no one is going to be limited, discriminated against, abused, neglected, or insulted because of where our grandparents came from, and that includes white people.
Leftists might not like white people, but they are free to be idiots and morally illiterate because thinking evil, dumb things is in the Constitution.
They don’t get to use power against people because of their race.
They don’t get to use power against people because of their race.
- They don’t get to discriminate against whites.
- They don’t get to hassle whites.
- They don’t get to exclude whites.
- They thought they'd get away with it though – by creating a social paradigm where you can’t raise objections to anti-white racism.
Well, white people aren’t going to play that.
You can’t tell somebody that the only thing that matters about them, is that they are a member of a particular ethnic group, and not expect them to band together with other members of that ethnic group (and allies) to use their own power to fight back.
In response, leftists are free to literally shake as they call white people “racist” even harder than before; no one cares.
You can’t tell somebody that the only thing that matters about them, is that they are a member of a particular ethnic group, and not expect them to band together with other members of that ethnic group (and allies) to use their own power to fight back.
In response, leftists are free to literally shake as they call white people “racist” even harder than before; no one cares.
Some people will respond to prejudice against them with prejudice of their own. That’s dumb. We know the right answer; we had it in our grasp until about the time Obama and his race lunatic allies showed up.
There’s still time before America becomes fully Balkanized, where we can turn back around and once again, embrace the common sense and morally correct notion of color blindness. I strongly urge this, but I’m concerned because the left is composed of ahistorical halfwits who've made the wrong choice about every major question for the last century.
Their actions will keep pushing the majority of Americans to stop identifying as Americans, and as a matter of self-preservation, to embrace their ethnicity.
I don’t want to be a white person – I want to be an American, and so should everybody else.
The leftists are seeking to destroy one of America’s greatest achievements. We need to stop them.
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