Rob Henderson recommended Oliver Traldi's essay at City Journal Cea Weaver's Comments Were Shocking. They Used to be Normal. He detects a change from even a few years ago what is not allowed to be said about white people. I guess that is true, but I wouldn't trust it. He notes some ironies, that even anti-wokeness attacks whites now, especially if they are liberal women. Left antisemitism is associated with anti-whiteness; right antisemitism is associated with anti South Asians and East Asians.
He advocates that we should feel pity for this sorry lot instead. I think my mother used to say this when I was a boy, that I should feel sorry for people who were mean to me. I think that is an obstacle to actual forgiveness, because it makes excuses for them, and breeds condescension in us. The poor dears just can't help it. Not like us.
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I found, being in a Ph.D. program in the 2010s, that people were quite willing to say this stuff out loud. About whites, about men. About Southern white men, especially; and right in front of me, who was all of those things. The cultural understanding was that we would smile and pretend to like it, or else be drummed out by the diversity enforcers (located, ironically, in the Office of Civil Rights).
He notes some ironies, that even anti-wokeness attacks whites now, especially if they are liberal women.
In a polity that is majority white and over half female it is going to be kinda hard to object to any political position without finding it held to some degree by white women. I recall after the first Trump election a couple of acquaintances going nuts because the majority of white women voted for Trump, and I think they did again in 2024. I think the only demographic group with a majority consistently opposing Trump is black women.
Maybe instead of demographics we need to start focusing on the policies people object to.
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