Why White Privilege Is A Myth & Affirmative Action Is Evil

The mythic nature of White Privilege is all too obvious should one visit Norwood and observe at the poor White trash there. Many are violent, functionally illiterate, on drugs and the product of unplanned birth - just your typical ghetto dwellers. White Privilege certainly doesn't do much for them, hmm? You know why that is?

Because White Privilege is ultimately a myth invented by White people. The origin of White Privilege was rich slaveowners telling poor Whites that it was all because of the Blacks that they didn't have jobs working the land. This myth was designed to keep poor Whites as enemies of the Black slaves and not as allies against the rich Whites who played them off against each other to enrich themselves.

This is also the historical reason why Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln were opposed to slavery: not that they cared about Black people, but that they believed slavery was a "moral & social evil" to Whites. The same basic dynamic can be seen today; even with the end of slavery, racist attitudes still engender a miasma of complacency on White Middle American populations that makes them less competitive and dynamic than other societies - holds them back.

White Privilege has never really been a kind of privilege at all. Rather, what is called White Privilege is nominal enfranchisement - access to social services such as housing, employment, education, police protection, etc.

The myth was later resurrected in the postwar era by demogogues who used it as a code word for stealing the White guy's cake instead of baking another cake for the Black guy. And the guy doing the stealing isn't a Black, it's some cynical White (and usually female) bureaucrat who hopes to keep a slice for himself, and prefers not to sully herself by dealing with the actual problems of Black people.

The cake in question - access to housing, employment, scholarships, social services etc - always belongs to a middle-class White male. It never belongs to a wealthy White (because they are wealthy and well-connected enough to make sure they keep their cake), a poor White (because they have no cake to steal), or a female White (because they are the single most overprivileged group in America, universally regarded with unequivocal sympathy and considered incapable of doing wrong, which is why the Feminist movement has been so successful in keeping their own White privilege firmly entrenched, and why White Women are at the opposite end of the spectrum from Blacks when it comes to being convicted, acquitted or granted diversion by criminal courts).

In short, White Privilege is and has always been a form of demagoguery - manipulating the lowest common denominators in the service of self-interest.

The contemporary answer to statistically superior White outcomes in employment, education and wealth is Affirmative Action. The answer is wrong, and I will tell you why it is wrong.

All Affirmative Action does, is string along the status quo and play into the hands of wealthy racists, who don't want to spend or get involved in the needs of Black communities by investing in things that could really make a difference for poor Blacks and Whites alike - police coverage, primary education, medical care, urban renewal, etc.

Affirmative Action, a new form of racial privilege, will turn out just like the old. White Privilege doesn't help poor White trash in Norwood (or even the frustrated and rapidly disappearing White middle class); it only helps a certain percentage of wealthy, well-connected Whites. By the same token, Affirmative Action won't really help poor Black communities or even middle-class Blacks; it will only help a small percentage of well-connected Blacks who are pulling the strings - people who are themselves totally uninterested in real change or progress, only holding onto their personal power.

Case study: Indian gaming. Indian gaming, or Alaskan oil franchising, hasn't bettered the lives of indigenous peoples. Why? Because all the money, power and connections go to a handful of tribal insiders who are more interested in their own betterment than improving conditions for their tribe. That's not race at work...just human nature.

The only way out is true equality of opportunity. Equalizing opportunity, not outcomes. Outcomes may or may not follow (the first modern Quota system was introduced in the universities of Czarist Russia, because Jews, despite being a widely despised minority, won entrance at a rate grossly disproportionate to their meager numbers). And what equality of opportunity means, is building the pyramid from the ground up: ensuring education, healthcare and public safety for the next generation.

But this is slow and difficult work, and the reason we have Affirmative Action is, no one - Black or White, Dem or GOP, rich, poor or middle-class - really wants to get down in the mud and get the work done. Unfortunately, it is easier for all parties involved to hand out jobs and degrees than critically examine and reform our social infrastructure.

On Feminazism - And Why Feminism Is Doomed

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/rebellious-new-feminism-returns-to-german-social-discourse-a-904100.html

The article broaches two elements of Feminism (in America, where Feminism has been much more successful in changing society for the worse, it is disparagingly referred to as "Feminazism") which betray the true nature of the movement.

First, the observation that Feminists are typically college-educated. This is a half-truth.

Although Feminists tend to be college-educated, they invariably specialize in the softest of soft majors. In America they have even invented the field of "women's studies", then demanded subsidies and salary equalization legislation (the "sue everybody" bill) when the major proved so abtruse and so irrelevant that those who pursued it proved unemployable.

Feminist academics are invariably ignorant individuals with slovenly mental habits. The remarkable resemblance between the debate style of Feminists and the debate style of Adolf Hitler is what has earned them their appellation as "Feminazis" (and no, this is not a "Godwin", because the comparison is relevant).

Like the historical Nazis, the Feminists are apt to rely on the methods of repeating the same lies again and again until even otherwise reasonable people are prepared to accept they are at least partially true; using the mantle of victimhood to justify victimizing others; relying on emotion, shock value and mass mobilization over intellectual sophistication; an intense and unequivocal hostility towards family, business, religion, and anything and everything that exists outside the movement; the creation of an entire pseudoscience of bigotry; and the belief that critical thinking is an ideological contaminant (because only through unadulterated emotion can ideological purity can be achieved).

One of the more ominous patterns that "Feminazis" have in common with the historical Nazis is the efforts of ideologically minded individuals to usurp the mantle of academic prowess in fields they are not qualified of. I remember in college I encountered a Feminist who presumed to claim a doctorate in Classical Studies, lectured to an audience of 200 undergraduates about the Spartans (a supposedly more gender-correct society, which actually isn't true since the apex of Spartan society was military service which was by definition exclusive to men) then left them breathless when she was revealed ignorant of the "helots".

Second, the topic of racism and Feminism.

Race is obviously a much more problematic issue in America than Germany, and I would like to point out to our German friends that (without taking occasion to blame the German nation for the atrocity that was the Holocaust - I personally am Jewish) we Americans haven't taken occasion to conveniently remove the problem for future generations by eradicating our unpopular ethnic minorities. The point is, race is an ongoing issue in American society, which, like every society, is a work in progress; therefore, Germans should be well to consider American experiences instructive and not merely testament to the barbarism that is American society.

Anyway, American Feminists are invariably White, and almost always of Protestant descent. (Many Feminazis pretend to be Jewish, as their modus operandi is to associate themselves with legitimately persecuted groups, seek legitimacy in the social strata they claim to disdain, and to appeal to the Protestant perception of Jews as intellectually superior - the classic behaviors of the chronically insecure). This is so for a very simple reason. No Black American woman would seriously believe that her gender is more of a social handicap than her race. The Feminist movement is a White women's movement, a way for the serially over-privileged to continue to claim privilege over other groups in society.

The Feminazis talk about race. But all it is, is lip service. They have absolutely no interest in correcting racial issues in society, only in allying with other politically minded groups to persecute White males (who are by now an extreme minority in American society and the only group it is legal to discriminate against without legal repercussions). This evil policy has not managed to close the race/gender gap, or even narrow it - it has widened it - because it does not resolve the underlying problems, lack of access to education and life progression.

What Feminazism has instead created is women like those seen in the picture in the article. Confused, angry, hormonal women who are very much cut from the same cloth as the confused, angry young men who felt their masculinity flattered by historical Nazism 80 years ago.

Perhaps the most poignant parallel between historical Nazism and Feminazism is what happens to the loyal-unto-death after "the party is over". They become old, burned-out individuals who spend the remainder of their lives as grifters and pensioners, alone and forgotten amidst a world that has moved on.

Women who were like these individuals back in the 60s (and never learned to hold a job, keep house, or wash their hair) can still be seen at bars, lesbian cafes, flea markets, and drug alleys - the slag heaps of society.

Perhaps that is the greatest evil perpetrated by Feminism. Dooming these young women to that bleak future.