Anti-white racism. That’s what this is. Just dressed-up, manicured, pedicured and pomaded anti-white racism, another installment in the ongoing, ever-expanding series of flagrant anti-white racist screeds being thrown out there and receiving raves from those who think it’s now cool to hate white people and want to join in on the fun all their friends seem to be having spreading this kind of rebellious-sounding hatred. Look at some of the statements being made here:

• “[I]t was only after nine years of dating men of all different races and ethnicities that I made the decision to stop dating white men.”
• “I was dealing with the unresolved racial trauma of being a white apologist for most of my life.”
• “But you know that early phase of consciousness where one’s pro-Blackness is best nurtured by divesting from whiteness, lest one hurts the feelings of the white folks they used to be cool with? That’s where I was.”

Substitute the word “black” for “white” in any of these statements, and you see how racist these statements are. (And just to preempt anyone trotting out the racist notion that black people can’t be racist because racism is prejudice plus power (and black people don’t have power, supposedly), I’ll link to my demolition of that politically motivated absurdity: https:[email protected][email protected]l6yr.)

This is also another installment in the sad series where people just want to have their say without having to endure the pain of dealing with others who might offer reasoned disagreement. The author describes a process where his burgeoning extremism resulted in a growing inability to deal with others who had different views. The result was his choice to enclose himself in a bubble composed exclusively of like-minded others, which, of course, results in further group-think and radicalization, at the cost of making his position intellectually weaker and weaker by insulating himself from criticism and losing perspective on how those who haven’t been similarly radicalized view the world. This is why, in lieu of actual dialogue on these kinds of issues, what we’re getting, as the research of the prominent moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt (which I describe here: https:[email protected][email protected]-98eeea6b6151) suggests, is an attempt by those calling themselves “people of color” to bully and intimidate those they think of as “white people” into silence. This is the mark of a sick society, one where the all-important arts of political engagement and civil disagreement have been lost and given way to shouting, ranting and raving by insecure, brittle and entitled toddlers having meltdowns in the public square.

For anyone who suffers from such pathologies, I suggest a simple treatment. Get out of your antagonistic pose in which you see everything in black and white and welcome all those shades of gray (or brown and beige) back into your world. Stop “divesting from whiteness,” whatever that means, and start divesting from race instead. Purge race as a concept in your vocabulary! Stop categorizing and judging people using that regressive, reductive label —almost universally rejected as an unscientific category by biologists — and start treating them as individual human beings. When confronted by racism, set an example rather than going down to the level of your racist adversaries. Be above them. Anger is the easy way out, but ultimately anger, as you might have observed, just drains you, stresses you and destroys you from the inside out. The pursuit of social justice is a worthwhile goal, but that pursuit should be undertaken in the name of breaking down boundaries, creating greater mutual understanding and spreading love rather than erecting barriers and sowing hatred.