White Privilege Has Become A Religion, Complete With Church Ladies
"John McWhorter examines the religious nature of racial “wokeness” in an insightful essay published in The American Interest, and finds it bears some resemblances to the Christian worldview, albeit without the hope of redemption or forgiveness.
“The parallels with Christianity are almost uncannily rich,” he writes.
“White privilege is the secular white person’s Original Sin, present at birth and ultimately ineradicable.
One does one’s penance by endlessly attesting to this privilege in hope of some kind of forgiveness.”
The religion of social justice and wokeness is stern, however, with little hope of redemption, love or reconciliation.
...Wokeness is a religion of judgment, and the preachers have only contempt for their (white) flock.
...Forgiveness is hard to obtain from the strange gods of this new faith, for reasons McWhorter’s excellent essay only begins to explore..."
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