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Posted on June 26, 2015

The Solution to White Privilege:

#TakeUsDown
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, June 26, 2015

The only way to please the anti-racists.

Joseph Sobran famously challenged liberals to define a society in which they would be
conservatives. Today, the challenge is to define a society in which white people are not
racist.
The last half century has seen a continual shifting of the goalposts when it comes to
defining racism. During the so-called Civil Rights movement, the premise behind every
piece of federal legislation was that African-Americans were simply white Americans with
a different skin color. Once state barriers were removed, inequality would be a thing of the
past. The American conservative movement still believes the United States can get
beyond race and treat everyone as individuals.
Fifty years since its inception, the Civil Rights movement has not ended inequality or
eliminated racial tensions. Instead, entire communities, especially Civil Rights battlefields
such as Selma and Birmingham, suffered white flight as European-Americans fled the
consequences of diversity. And no sooner had race ostensibly been eliminated from
American law, it was re-introduced in the form of Affirmative Action, or racial
preferences directed against whites and Asians.
This, we were told, was necessary to compensate for the past effects of discrimination. And
we were also told there was a time limit. Justice Sandra Day OConnor, writing in 2003 for
the majority in Grutter v. Bollinger, claimed that in 25 years they would not longer be
needed.
She was wrong, because racism has now been redefined as being colorblind. To say you
dont see race is to actually admit that you are a racist. Being anti-racist means
understanding the systematic role white privilege played in stacking the deck against
People of Color. (Asians, who outperform whites economically and academically, dont
count.)
Indeed, even whites who are trying to help people of color are often accused of having a
savior complex. Popular musician Lindsey Stirling, as G-rated an entertainer as could be,
found herself called offensive for her charity work in Kenya. By simply showing there
was poverty in Africa, journalists intoned, she was promoting a hurtful, antiquated
image of the Dark Continent.
During the Occupy movement, issues of class inequality and protests against Wall Street
were quickly subordinated to left-wing identity politics. Whites were relegated to the back
of the speaking order at meetings. There have even been clashes between white anarchists
and non-white anarchist groups who accuse the former of gentrification.
The great political strength of white privilege as a concept is its supposed explanatory
power and unfalsifiable nature. If every example of racial inequality can be pinned on
white privilege, no non-white ever has to be responsible for failure.

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White privilege has done what was once thought impossible. It allows you to prove a
negative because if you do not denounce racism energetically enough, you are racist
yourself.
But how are whites supposed to prove they are anti-racist?
If they move into a black neighborhood, they are colonizers promoting gentrification. If
they leave, they are engaging in racist white flight that hurts the community.
If whites do hip-hop or use black slang or fashion symbols, they are guilty of cultural
appropriation. If they claim to have their own spiritual or cultural traditions that belong
only to them, they are guilty of segregation and racism.
If whites dont sufficiently ameliorate the suffering of the Third World, they are implicitly
admitting their dehumanization of the Other. But if they try to help the Third World,
they are revealing white supremacy by saying People of Color need to be saved.
This is not a bug, but a feature of white privilege. There is no situation it does not fit.
There is nothing whites can do to prove they are not racist. The only coherent and
consistent meaning behind the ideology is that whitesand only whitesare uniquely evil
and responsible for suffering in the world.
Every white person, around the world, no matter how self-loathing, is guilty. So why
pretend otherwise? Like the aliens in Independence Day, the supposed anti-racists dont
want to co-exist with us. They want us to disappear.
The logical conclusion is not just to take down the Confederate flag, which has already
been removed from Walmart, eBay, Amazon, Google Shopping, Sears, the Apple App
Store, the Alabama State Capitol, and the gift shops at Fort Sumter and the Gettysburg
battlefield. Even taking down the American flag wont satisfy them.
Fox News personality Gavin McInnis has hit on the perfect solution: We need to do more
than just take down a flag. We need to stand up and recognize the inherent privilege that
comes from being white. Please join me by posting pics of yourself taken down.

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Gavin McInnes
@Gavin_McInnes

6/27/15, 8:13 AM

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White people are a symbol of hatred and oppression.

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We encourage our readers to join the fight against white privilege. Tweet your photos
using #TakeUsDown.

Jeff Lovin

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@Gavin_McInnes Im waiting for the Semi Truck of Social

Injustice to end my privilege. #takeusdown
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Nick
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6/27/15, 8:13 AM

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Doing my part to eliminate symbols of hatred and oppression in

the workplace. #TakeUsDown #TGMS
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Shaun Shook
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@Gavin_McInnes Currently loathing in a tub of my own guilt

tears. So sorry. #TakeUsDown
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Deputy Ken Tankeros

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Double the guilt. #TakeUsDown #TGMS @Gavin_McInnes

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Mr. Hood has been active in conservative youth movements in the US.

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