With the recent purposeful conflation of TRP with racist ideologies by CNN, I think a reposting of this is in order.
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There is an unmistakable anti-white racism going on. The key word here is racism. Whites are considered to enjoy more privileges than they deserve. This trend might strike as a paradox at first, since it is undeniable that white people own the bulk of the wealth, and occupy the bulk of the power positions. So, how can it be, that there is racism against whites?
Anti-white-male racism
First thing to note is that it is predominantly an anti-white-male racism. Females are considered "oppressed", so they are spared the stigma of being privileged. People in this community are aware of this dimension, so I won't analyze it further.
"White privilege"
Another thing of special interest is the use of the racist term "white privilege". The notion that being white per se confers you "privileges" is absurd. Being born in an upper-middle class family does indeed make you privileged - but this is tied to your social class, not your race.
The "progressives" that spearhead the anti-white racist propaganda don't even blush while arguing that even a piss-poor white man is "privileged".
Here are some examples of white "privilege", from an article that spurred me to write this text, "Explaining White Privilege To A Broke White Person" (google it if you can stomach it):
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“If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race.”
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“I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented.”
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“When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization,” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is.”
- “I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time.”
This is all pretty fucked up. But let's look at it closer.
Start with the first, “If a traffic cop pulls me over or if the IRS audits my tax return, I can be sure I haven’t been singled out because of my race.” Now, there is anti-black and anti-minority racism in the US, and the police, especially, are notorious for it. There are reports of blacks told to pull over simply because of their color, something that whites are not experiencing. This is a case of racist bias against blacks, vs a normal expectation in a democratic country, that of not being harassed, for whites. Calling this normal expectation a "privilege" accomplishes nothing other than lowering the democratic standards. The so-called "progressive thinkers" that bring up this paradigm, only justify the wildest systemic dreams for a despotic state. They imply that being able to move freely is not a self-evident democratic right, it is a privilege, granted to you by your overlords. So, they have the right to retract it at any time.
The other three points, are basically disguised bourgeois racial prejudice. People are expected to have built their identity around their race, and the magnanimous philistine "progressive" intellectual is anxious to provide them with a daily acknowledgement of their "race's" contribution to civilization. The problem with this view is that it fully adopts the systemic view about civilization. Civilization is supposed to be "owned", and more specifically owned by the ones that "invented" it. It's the same flawed logic by which an illiterate modern Greek can feel proud and knowledgeable because (ancient) Greeks invented Geometry - or a piss poor American can feel proud for being a member of the most powerful modern nation, despite his utter powerlessness. The pre-manifactured cultural "identity" serves as a cheap sedative, to reassure the pleb against its lack of personal substance.
The fact is that the only solid ground for a man's "identity" is the one he chooses. A man chooses his roots, and the pool from which he can choose is the whole of humanity's achievements. All system-manifactured, pre-packaged "identities" are largely, or even exclusively, control tools.
Racism against the White middle-class
I wrote above that not even "white trash" are spared the stigma of being "privileged". But, hey, they are at the bottom of society. There is not much incentive for the establishment to launch a campaign against them, since it's not much further down they can be pushed! It is the middle class that is targeted by anti-white racism. And here is where things get juicy.
Doesn't the middle class dutifully support the system? Are they not the natural allies of the elite? Well, generally yes, it does. And no, they aren't.
The key notion here is the thing that both the fascist Mussolini and the Bolshevik Trotsky perceptively acknowledged: The middle class is fundamentally incapable of independent policies. The desire to be ruling class, the fear of being demoted to working class, and at the same time the ideological glorification of the small, self-sufficient businessman. That's all there is to an unstable concoction of an ideology, coming from those condemned to live in the precarious stability of the petite bourgeoisie.
Whenever the middle class has played an influential role in history, it was by its siding with either the ruling class, or, more rarely, with those below.
Today, the middle class finds itself in quite a shocking situation. It wants to faithfully support the system, as is customary, but it receives the finger from the elite. "Fuck you (the system says). We already have the workers crushed and disorganized. We don't need you as a cushion against them. There is no fear from the Left, it is now fully co-opted into the system. Neoliberalism has conquered the world, including Russia and China, and There Is No Alternative (TINA). But... we are the ruling class, dude! We need to keep expanding. So guess what we are going to feed on, now: YOU!"
And since Progressives have emerged as the efficient administrators of the ruling class' power, they put their ideological arsenal at its service. They used their "possession" of the term "racism"... to apply racism the way it is always used, to divide and conquer.
It has been a mighty successful campaign, on all accounts: The mainstream, liberal media, and the public opinion drivers are comfortable using it, and the liberal white middle class is ideologically blocked and disarmed, unable to react. But not only that; there is another huge gain for the system: There is a conservative fold-back of the rest, the non-liberal middle class, which entrenches itself behind a "white" identity and its policies, demonizing "aliens" - i.e., currently, immigrants. The end effect of this campaign is that the elite, the super-rich, remain invisible just as their power surges, while those below, the lower classes and, now, the middle class, are left to fight between them for scraps.
It is crucial to see the big picture here: While the middle class is being purposefully torn to shreds by the elite, anti-white racism simultaneously justifies this attack, as an attack against "the privileged", thus paralyzing progressives, and scapegoats those below, instead of those above, thus diverting the anger of conservatives away form the elite.
It is Machiavellian, it is brilliant, it is sick. And it is working like a charm.
PaperStreetVilla 6y ago
You know where to put politics
OSaraiva 6y ago
I'm growingly seeing this bs as a massive shit test which we (as men, independently of skin color) are failing.
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CoupDeGrace22 6y ago
Alt-right is no answer to this problem, since it's very solutions are practically impossible. They can tip-toe their on their words and ideas carefully, but it's been said over and over their ultimate solution is 2 scenarios:
Mass deportation/relocation to create the infamous "white ethnostate"
The majority of people in here are not mainstream stupid and understand that all acts of war and power-plays today are done in such elaborate schemes and under so SO many smokes & mirrors that it's impossible to even understand them for the majority of people, let alone take a stand on them. Add to that the element of controlled opposition and barrages of propaganda against legitimate opposition and it reaches the depth of "tin-foil hat rabbit hole", therefore the masses don't even take their own stand, they are simply swayed.
That is because that's the only way to carry them out today in the way our world is connected to avoid widespread opposition, and to do that you need to control the media and the positions of power, something the alt right will never do.
Crimea annexation.
Syria war.
The resulting refugee wave along with it's perfectly coordinated hitchhike from African/middle-eastern countries(Wonder who funds the modern slave owners trafficking the 3rd-world poor plebs eh?) and it's effect on Europe.
90% of the people alive don't even understand why these events happened, how can they oppose what they can't comprehend?
Perfect example of Orwell's notion of "newspeak". Every word bears it's meaning, there's a reason we have a word for virtue and a reason we have one for women who are not worthy of relationships and commitment.
Take the word "slut" and reforge it's meaning, now all the sluts and idiots think being a slut means empowerment, freedom, and courage, therefore what use do these people have for words like virtue, dignity or freedom anymore? They become obsolete, and so does their meaning. The status quo shifts, and so do society's notions, and before you know it finding your wife fucking someone else is nothing shameful anymore, for being a slut is her being "Free and making her own choices".
What a lovely world we inherit.
PhishPhan700 6y ago
I dunno man, the alt-right is basically just as retarded as the far-left. You can develop a sense of pride in your heritage/background without joining a Richard Spencer cult. The "alt's" are two sides of the same coin really.
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PhishPhan700 6y ago
I don't truly believe that white people can form a "racial consciousness". We're way more locked into our ethnicities/nationalities as a form of near of tribalism. I get what you're saying though.
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PhishPhan700 6y ago
It's not even that I believe in Centrism, I consider myself right-wing. I just refuse to drift into some cartoonish extreme where a lot of the members on either side would actively dislike me for my beliefs.
OmegaMan2 6y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've seen, the police will not usually stop a black man in a business suit carrying a brief case, rather they will more likely stop a black man because he looks like a gangsta drug dealer. Same goes for white men if you look like a biker who deals in stolen goods on the side.
If you're Hispanic and covered in tatoos then you are most likely a member of MS-13 and deserving of greater police scrutiny.
What I think is far more important than race in getting hassled by the police is the manner in which you present yourself.
Look like a criminal and you will be stopped. Look like a responsible member of society and no matter what your race, you will largely be left alone to go about your business.
jewishsupremacist88 6y ago
identity politics is a tool used by the jewish elite to keep you goyim fighting with each other while we continue to loot and destroy this country. but yes..the white middle class is being dismembered and your children will be squatting in refugee camps like palestiniains already do 20 years from now. salom!!
i will be on a beach in tel aviv while this country gets smashed into a million pieces.
ScottyBrown 6y ago
Real Racism is being white and knowing you can’t walk around certain neighborhoods safely.
coco5440 6y ago
BS!!! Being white does indeed convey privilege in some situations. I'm Hispanic but can pass for white -- in many situations I do indeed get treated better than my darker skinned relatives. One of my best friends and former roommate is African American. His family is solidly upper middle class going back generations -- he's a successful professional who dresses well and drives a nice car -- but he still gets hassled by cops on a regular basis.
adam-l Endorsed Contributor 6y ago
I think you didn't read the full article.
What you call "privilege" I call "self-evident democratic rights". And I do acknowledge that there is racist bias against the blacks in the US.
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coco5440 6y ago
I've been working in the criminal justice system for over a decade (as both a peace officer and an attorney). I've seen the racial bias first hand. Its worse in some places than others but its almost always present.
blackedoutfast 6y ago
cops hassle people of every race. the difference is that minorities, particularly black people, think they're getting hassled because of race and not because they're doing something suspicious.
so the black guy who gets pulled over get butthurt and angry and confrontational with the "racist" cop, the cop gets butthurt and angry and confrontational in response, and sometimes it turns into a bad situation.
meanwhile the white guy who gets hassled by a cop knows cops just gonna cops. white might be annoyed but doesn't get all butthurt and angry with the cop. half the time the cop just gives a warning to the white because it had been such a pleasant interaction compared to all the butthurt darkies he usually has to deal with.
red_matrix 6y ago
If you haven't read 'Death of the West' I highly recommend you do.
Demographics is destiny.
Einzakin 6y ago
Way too deep bud take a breath
bvg68 6y ago
This has nothing to do with plating women! Find another sub-reddit.
RoseCatK 6y ago
Jesus fuck. There's no such thing as racism against whites. It's bigotry or stereotyping or other things but it's by definition cannot whatsoever be "racism." We have the power (currently), so it doesn't work. Racism is about power dynamics.
VasiliyZaitzev 6y ago
This is straight out of the Leftoid playbook, and it is used to make being anti-white "ok". Srsly, get your head out your ass.
K_J_K 6y ago
You mean the false definition invented by progressives? Institutionalized racism is a made up word to hide racism against the targeted majority. Racism is racism no matter what color you are.
newName543456 6y ago
LMAO
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism
Relevant:
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VasiliyZaitzev 6y ago
Yeah, there are a few reasons for that. First is the "in group" preference that pretty much everyone has - although, ironically, whites have the least of it which is why the US has a created "affirmative action" preferences that it has.
Second, when you get a resume from "D'Anfernee DaQuan Jefferson", after your first thought of "that's a fucked up way to spell 'Anthony'", then you see he went to Harvard, your second thought is going to be, "hmm. Did he get into Harvard because he's smart, or because Harvard feels bad about its 'white privilege'?"^1 That's a fair question because nobody is interested in hiring losers, no mater how fancy they are.^2
One of the professionals I use (for myself) is a black guy. After my second or third time in his office, I told him he could "stop giving me his resume" every time I came in because I knew he was "legit" talented - he'd tell me all about his education (double ivy), etc., on each vist. He got what I meant immediately, and rather than being angry, he was relieved, and I've used his services for 20+ years. That's the problem that talented minorities have - did they get where they are on talent or pity? It's brutally unfair to talented folks.
The guys I really like are what I call the "Brooklyn Kids", who are strivers who come from lower to middle class backgrounds and will simply outwork the fuck out of everyone because they've got something to prove.
^1 To be fair, if I see the same resume where the name is "Forrest Smythe-Carrington IV" I will also thing, "I wonder if this guy is an under-achieving quadruple legacy?" I might still interview him, because somewhere in his line, somebody had the "smart" genes, but you never know.
^2 Where I work, a lot of what we do is math-intensive, and in those slots, you will see a lot of the following: Indians, Chinese, autistic white men and Jews. Because that's who is good at that shit. There is one woman in the department, but she's legit talented and nobody treats her rough because: she can actually do her job, and she never sits around on her ass complaining about how bad she's got it while everyone around her does all the heavy lifting.
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iLLprincipLeS 6y ago
Are you sure an arab or an african american doesn't also gets more matches than the locals?
It's foreign = money, chance to get out of shit country
Just for being born white you aren't handed at birth a free ticket to travel around the world.
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