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By Hank Beckman -
Is it OK to be white?
The question is legitimate but asking it has our progressive friends very upset.
Persons unknown have in recent years been affixing that very statement on those ubiquitous “Hate Has No Home Here,” signs that began popping up all over the Chicagoland area in the wake of Donald Trump’s election in 2016.
The sentiment has also been posted at various colleges sites around the country, prompting the usual wails of anguish from those triggered by an idea that hasn’t been approved by their school’s diversity czars.
I first heard about the phenomena shortly after the Bad Orange Man’s election when on my Facebook news feed there popped up a complaint about how affixing the question to the signs was “problematic.”
This struck me as odd. People opposed to hate should leap at the chance to affirm the acceptability of a group defined by the immutable characteristic of race. Right?
Apparently not.
In addition to the usual insults hurled my way when I defended the statement as legitimate, several people explained that to make the point was unacceptable because it implied that the signs denouncing hate somehow meant that it was not OK to be white.
Not being a mind-reader, I’ll happily take many of the posters at their word. No need to be disagreeable about legitimate differences; you might have noticed enough of that in the national conversation recently.
But while it might shock some of our sheltered, progressive friends, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there are many members of our ruling elite that maintain that it’s definitely not OK to be white. Consider the following examples:
Yale University’s medical school recently provided a glimpse into the subject of whiteness when they hosted an address titled, “The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind.”
New York psychiatrist Dr. Aruna Khilanani fairly vented her feelings about people of the caucasian persuasion when she confessed to homicidal urges.
She admitted to having fantasies about “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way.”
Her reason—and every malcontent has their reason—is that white people “are out of their minds and have been for a long time.”
The good doctor said she would remain unmoved by anything resembling feelings of humanity, like guilt, and “walk away with a bounce in my step.”
Lucky for everyone in her vicinity that she cut out all her white friends several years ago.
While Dr. Khilanani mercifully inhabits a fringe, violent element of our medical community, others in the field liken being white to a disease that one contracts.
“Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has-a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which white people have a particular susceptibility,” writes Dr. Donald Moss in a May article in the “American Psychoanalytic Association.”
(To be fair, someone identified as Dr. Donald Moss, on staff at the College of Integrated Medicine and Health Science at Saybrook University, Tweeted that he was misidentified as the author of the article. And his picture and the work he specializes in indicates that he might have been the wrong man. But someone writing under the name Dr. Donald Moss published the article, both at the APA website and the website of the National Library of Medicine)
Moss insists that “parasitic whiteness renders its host’s appetite voracious, insatiable, and perverse.”
Moss goes on to claim that those suffering from whiteness are prone to targeting non-whites and that once afflicted by the disease, “these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate.”
No word on a vaccine or if wearing a face mask might help.
In Brooklyn, fifth grade social studies teacher Alison Dempsey leads her students in anti-racism curriculum. Or, rather, she lets them dictate to her what the definitive facts of racism are.
One student tells her that “white people make other people think that black people are bad.” Another student claims that when white people kill blacks white people always say it’s self-defense, but when blacks kill whites, it’s considered murder.
Ms. Dempsey must be so relieved to know that her job has been made so much easier by whatever influences her children have already been exposed. And she sees no reason to engage the children in any critical examination of the issues, because as she puts it, “They actually knew, they said everything we were going to be learning together.” Fifth-graders, mind you.
As you might expect in an age where the corporate media is essentially the mouthpiece for the Democratic Party’s maniacal reliance on racial resentment to win votes, prominent media figures do their best to fan the fames of racial hatred.
ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin said that she felt threatened whenever she saw a lot of American flags when it wasn’t the Fourth of July and there also happened to be Trump flags present.
“The statement is very clear, she said. “It’s one of white supremacy.”
The Root’s Michael Harriot wasn’t quite as worried about American flags, but the combination of Old Glory on a pickup truck driven by white people was problematic.
“Anyone who flies an American flag on a pickup truck is a whole different breed of white people,” he Tweeted in response to the New York Times Mara Gay stressing that the mere sight of the American flag made her feel excluded.
One could go on listing these incidents that can only be described at bigoted, but to give a full accounting of the anti-white rhetoric floating around our institutions—like Coca Cola asking its employees to act less white-would take up a decent-size book.
Suffice it to say that if progressives don’t know that saying “It’s OK to be White” is a reasonable response to today’s political and racial climate, one suspects it’s because they don’t want to know.
Keep in mind that these are not street-corner reprobates, the dregs of society that can be found in every culture and race. They are ostensibly educated people entrusted with providing us with medical care, quality news, and educating our children.
And the examples I highlight are only from the recent past; anyone with an internet connection and the slightest interest in racial politics has been exposed to the toxic rhetoric that started with the inauguration of Barack Obama and gotten steadily worse in the ensuing years.
Some have claimed that the ones posting the questions are white nationalists, automatically making the question suspect. And it may be that the people gleefully trolling our progressive friends are questionable, uninformed people.
But that doesn’t mean they don’t have a legitimate point. As noted philosopher Tony Soprano once said about his slower-witted Uncle Junior, even a broken watch is right twice a day.
Common sense tells us that this demonization of an entire race by society’s elites cannot continue unabated. If it does, history tells us it will end badly.
