Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Read it!-----The Strange Pandemic of ‘White’ Disparagement-Victor Davis Hanson

The Strange Pandemic of ‘White’ Disparagement - Victor Davis Hanson
"All of a sudden, the obsession with whites as a Satanic collective has become a national fad.
  • One of the tenets of the early civil rights movement some 65 years ago was ending racial stereotyping.
  • When Martin Luther King, Jr. called for emphasizing the “content of our character” over “the color of our skin,” the subtext was “stop judging people as a faceless collective on the basis of their superficial appearance and instead look to them as individuals with unique characters.”...
  • Indeed, many of the old Confederate pathologies—fixation on racial essence, obsession with genealogy, nullification of federal laws, states’ rights, and segregated spaces and ceremonies—are now rehabilitated by woke activists.
In that larger landscape, the collective adjective and noun “white” now has also been redefined and mainstreamed as a pejorative to the point of banality...

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