An old journalist “frenemy” of mine, a hopelessly liberal former reporter for the New York Times, once posted a tweet on Twitter saying he never could be subjected to racism — because he is white.
In other words, he is a member of the white ruling class, impervious to racial taunts from his lessers, those poor downtrodden minorities who are to be pitied as victims. And, golly gee, if people of color express hatred and anger for white people they never have met, it is justified.
This oddball sentiment among white liberals always struck me as arrogant and condescending, a display of preening white guilt to garner “likes” on social media. Plus, this assertion is false: Of course, people can be racist against whites, right?
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