ON RACISM & WHITE GUILT

by Tom Wise

This is an opinion piece. It contains language which some may find offensive or detrimental to a particular cause or notion. With that in mind, on with the opinion...

I am against racism. There are good and bad in every race, so I judge individuals, not races.

The liberal, however, sees things, ironically, in black and white when it comes to racism. Either you believe in the concepts of Systemic Racism, White Privilege, Male Patriarchy, Neo-Colonialism, Micro-Aggression, and so forth, or you are the enemy of the world. This is the liberal's view, yet it only seems to apply to white people. According to the liberal, only white people can be racist because white people hold all the cards, and keys to power. This, of course, is a ridiculous statement, but it is the basis of their belief system on racism. Even if the liberal were to admit racism on the part of non-whites, it would still be blamed somehow on white power, or white history, or white thought.

Rationally, however, all races have some systemic racism. Blacks have prejudices and show racism against other blacks, whites, Latins, and Orientals. Mexican vs. Guatemalan. Chinese vs. Japanese. Arab vs. Jew, black, and white. It's inherent in the human race to recollect history and war, to desire what someone else has, or to just fear or hate something different. It's not an exclusively white characteristic.

Consequently, the liberal, especially the white liberal, cannot think straight when it comes to explaining or battling racism. For example, the liberal cannot answer rationally if asked, Is everybody in the world battling racism at the same time and rate? Are the Japanese, and the Koreans, and Arabs, and blacks all trying to defeat racism with the same fervor and zest as whites seem to be?  I would posit that the world is just as racist as it ever was. Only in the liberal's mind is progress being made, and, arrogantly, only by white liberals in white nations!

So the next question for the liberal is, are white people the leaders of the world in fighting against racism? Are whites first and foremost in this area? If the liberal says Yes, he admits whites are superior in this field. But isn't that superior attitude supposed to be anathema for liberals in the modern day? Now, if the white race is superior in the fight against racism, isn't the liberal's claim that "white equals racist" nonsense? If the liberal, on the other hand, says No, he must be pressed to answer which race is more active against racism than whites.

The next question for the liberal is, what is the purpose of fighting for the rights of all races if the other races are not doing likewise? If the liberal says it is the duty of the white race to lead in this arena, it must be asked if the other races are "backwards" or "primitive" when it comes to fighting racism.

I think you see where I'm going here. The white liberal's superior attitude in fighting racism is itself a superiority of race, even if the white liberal's main target is other white people. The white liberals throw mud at their own race, screaming at those who do not agree with their methods and tactics and chicanery, because at heart the white liberal must understand that the target of frustration must really be those of other races who do not share their beliefs. In other words, it is a way of saying "You're not trying hard enough" to whites rather than to all races because, for the white liberal, to expect other races to toe their reasonable line would constitute them being racist.

White liberalism has boxed itself in. If it does not act aggressively towards its own race, there seems to be lacking passion. If it expects the same from other races, there seems to be that old "oppression" they say they're fighting. Therefore, white liberalism is not against racism as much as it is against expecting the same from other races. This in itself is a form of racism because it says "You other races are not able to battle racism as well as the white race can battle racism" and they justify this by adding "...but you don't have to because the white race owes it to you."

I am not proposing we stop battling racism. Naturally, we have always fought against racism, but we have had to make our fight more visible online and elsewhere to keep the white liberal from destroying everything we've done. Unfortunately, even when we seek to appease the white liberal, this appeasement is used only to leverage more and more from us. As this further leverage is exerted, fewer and fewer want to take on the task of fighting racism. White liberalism therefore destroys the very thing it says it wants most, and (of course) blames not itself but those who balk. It is no wonder so many lose interest in helping society, when whatever is given with good intentions is slapped in the face.

I do not have a solution to this problem, since it is the nature of those who battle racism to want peace, and the nature of the white liberal radical to provoke disharmony and poke hornet's nests in order to justify their anger, and sometimes to justify their so-called non-profit organizations. All we can do is keep embracing individuals with whom we agree, no matter their race, to build the type of world which the liberal can only dream about, one of true equality under the banner of a flag which we respect as standing for our rights.

I put forward these opinions in the interest of conservative political science and philosophy. I hope they are received in the good-intentioned manner which I offer it.