I don’t know who this guy is but I like what he wrote and wanted to share it with you:
That’s awesome. I love how he explains them to basically the same thing just on opposite ends of the spectrum.
Here’s another good one I found:
The events in Charlottesville are the logical consequence of the politics of identity. One of the nastiest trends in Western politics in recent years has been the relentless racialisation of public life and political debate. Everyone has been forced, often against their will, into a racial box. It’s all “Dear White People”, checking white privilege, the problem of Old White Men, black lives matter, white lives matter, Asian lives matter, racial re-education on campus, warnings against “cultural appropriation”, where everyone from the white dude who wears dreadlocks to Beyonce in a sari is branded a racial thief. We’re bombarded with the message that we’re racial creatures, that our biology and history shape us, that our skin colour determines our privilege levels, our outlook. The predictable, poisonous end result has been the return of racial thinking, the rebirth of the racial imagination. And anyone who tries to opt out of this utterly nasty business, anyone who says “I’m colourblind, I don’t judge people by race”, is rounded upon. Apparently it is white privilege to say “I don’t think about race”. If you want to be thought of as a good person, you *must* think racially — a complete reversal of how things were just 20 or 30 years ago.
And people wonder why white nationalism is growing. It would be amazing if it wasn’t. Over and over the cultural elite says, “You are white, you are a white man, everything you think and do is an expression of whiteness, your identity is white, that is your race and your history, admit it, own it”, and some people have turned around and said: “Okay.”
O’Neil clearly isn’t excusing this white nationalism, but he is explaining why it is on the rise and he makes a lot of sense.
In 2008 we were promised fundamental transformation and that’s what we got. Levin said it so many times, that all of these racist accusations being spewed by Democrats, the attack on law enforcement in the name of race by Obama and his administration, and the attacks on law enforcement from the people in the name of race – the protests, riots, etc – that it was balkanizing the country.
Well here we are.