Post by NFA on Jun 16, 2020 20:11:18 GMT 8
Applies in spades in Australia
A classic for the times from Victor Davis Hanson
amgreatness.com/2020/06/14/class-not-race-divides-america/Class, Not Race, Divides America
It is the truth that the white progressive dares not to utter.
By Victor Davis Hanson • June 14, 2020
Nothing is stranger in these tense days than the monotony of the inexact and non-descriptive mantra of “white privilege” and “white solidarity”—as if there is some monolithic white bloc, or as if class matters not at all.
In truth, the clingers, the deplorables, the irredeemables, and Joe Biden’s “dregs” have very little in common with those who so libel them, but superficially share supposedly omnipotent and similar skin color.
In the past, we saw such tensions among so-called whites in CNN’s reporting of the allegedly toothless rubes at Trump rallies, in the Strzok-Page text trove about Walmart’s smelly patrons, in the callous coastal disregard for the five-decade wasting away of the American industrial heartland, in the permissible elite collective disparagement of Christians (evangelicals or otherwise), and in the anthropological curiosity about and condescension toward such exotic, but presumably backward, commercial fishermen, foresters, farmers and fine tradesmen (Duck Dynasty and NASCAR) peoples.
As a result, we have reached the surreal point at which the nation’s privileged whites on campuses such as Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra (Harvard, Yale, and Stanford), in the top echelon of politics, and the corporate and entertainment worlds, all deplore in the abstract something they call “white privilege” in others who have never really experienced it.
In truth, the clingers, the deplorables, the irredeemables, and Joe Biden’s “dregs” have very little in common with those who so libel them, but superficially share supposedly omnipotent and similar skin color.
In the past, we saw such tensions among so-called whites in CNN’s reporting of the allegedly toothless rubes at Trump rallies, in the Strzok-Page text trove about Walmart’s smelly patrons, in the callous coastal disregard for the five-decade wasting away of the American industrial heartland, in the permissible elite collective disparagement of Christians (evangelicals or otherwise), and in the anthropological curiosity about and condescension toward such exotic, but presumably backward, commercial fishermen, foresters, farmers and fine tradesmen (Duck Dynasty and NASCAR) peoples.
As a result, we have reached the surreal point at which the nation’s privileged whites on campuses such as Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra (Harvard, Yale, and Stanford), in the top echelon of politics, and the corporate and entertainment worlds, all deplore in the abstract something they call “white privilege” in others who have never really experienced it.
