{"id":1635942,"date":"2022-09-08T03:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635942"},"modified":"2022-09-08T03:18:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T07:18:58","slug":"how-americas-elites-decided-vicious-anti-white-racism-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-americas-elites-decided-vicious-anti-white-racism-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"How America\u2019s Elites Decided Vicious Anti-White Racism Is A Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-americas-elites-decided-vicious-anti-white-racism-is-a-good-thing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/06\/nyregion\/yale-psychiatrist-aruna-khilanani.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2021 lecture at Yale University<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cThe Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind,\u201d psychiatrist Aruna Khilanani described her \u201cfantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step, like I did the world a favor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, a scholarly article in a peer-reviewed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00030651211008507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">academic journal<\/a>\u00a0described \u201cwhiteness\u201d as \u201ca malignant, parasitic-like condition to which \u2018white\u2019 people have a particular susceptibility.\u201d The author, Donald Moss, had also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypsi.org\/events\/on-having-whiteness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presented his paper<\/a>\u00a0as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmps.edu\/On-Having-Whiteness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continuing education course<\/a>\u00a0for licensed therapists who would presumably treat patients with this condition. The paper advises: \u201cThere is not yet a permanent cure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a sampling of the new racism that is gaining purchase in American society even as its advocates relentlessly punish speech they deem harmful and threatening to people of color. It parallels the acceptance of anti-male rhetoric that casts masculinity as \u201cpredatory\u201d and \u201ctoxic,\u201d or just casually demeans males as oafish and clueless, which allows the Washington Post to give a megaphone to Northeastern University professor Suzanna Danuta Walters to ask:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/QBo8c\">\u201cWhy can\u2019t we hate men?\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(Her conclusion: We can and we should.)<\/p>\n<p>The escalation of this inflammatory rhetoric is reaching the highest levels of American society, as when President Biden insinuated in a fiery campaign speech last week that Donald Trump supporters are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/bidens-full-speech-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">white supremacists<\/a>\u201d and when he maligned conservative mask skeptics last year for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1367195124527214602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neanderthal thinking<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What strikes a casual observer is that such language would be instantly denounced if it targeted racial minorities or other protected groups. Just as remarkable is that this new rhetoric is not coming from dropouts and loners at society\u2019s margins; it is being advanced by successful professionals who have scaled the heights of respectability and are given a platform on social media and in prestigious cultural outlets.<\/p>\n<p>And though each of those examples generated a public furor, such inflammatory rhetoric is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rutgersaaup.org\/rutgers-aaup-aft-statement-in-solidarity-with-brittney-cooper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defended<\/a>\u00a0or downplayed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10145969\/Public-furious-Rutgers-professor-Brittney-Coopers-history-anti-white-comments.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cultural gatekeepers<\/a>. The incidents have been piling up especially in the past few years, especially since the election of Donald Trump to the White House during the ascent of Black Lives Matter in the age of social media, and even include cases of people calling for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/10\/books\/pauline-harmange-i-hate-men.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hate of privileged groups<\/a>\u00a0and insisting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/a-scholar-asked-why-cant-we-hate-men-now-she-responds-to-the-deluge-of-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it\u2019s not hate speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In its ultimate sign of success, this messaging has taken hold in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2021\/03\/10\/how_california_is_embracing_mandatory_racial-injustice_instruction_for_all_its_17_million_high_schoolers_767044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public schools<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2020\/10\/20\/top-down_white_penitence_is_shaking_up_the_workplace_125684.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corporate workplaces<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2021\/08\/11\/medicine_is_getting_major_injections_of_woke_ideology_that_will_likely_affect_your_health_care_789077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">medical journals<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2021\/11\/11\/medical_research_seizes_on_systemic_racism_as_undisputed_truth_its_scientific_credibility_on_the_line_802820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scientific research<\/a>, and even diversity training in <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/obscene-federal-diversity-training-scam-prospers-even-under-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal agencies<\/a>. It\u2019s not limited to any single race but endorsed by whites, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/may\/30\/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blacks<\/a>, Asians, and others, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/16\/african-american-history-museums-whiteness-exhibit-raising-eyebrows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disseminated<\/a> in diversity materials and workplace-recommended readings that characterize white people as flawed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edpost.com\/stories\/if-you-really-want-to-make-a-difference-in-black-lives-change-how-you-teach-white-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">predatory, and dangerous<\/a> to society. Its sudden spread has caused a sense of culture shock and given rise to acrimonious school board meetings and employee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2021\/04\/27\/critical_race_theory_is_about_to_face_its_days_in_court_774290.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuits<\/a> over hostile work environments as legions of teachers, students, and workers have been educated about white privilege, white fragility, white complicity, and the moral imperative to de-center \u201cwhiteness\u201d so as not to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sph.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2021\/09\/Anti-Racist-Planning-Guide-for-Public-Health-Pedagogy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">normalize white domination<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This new take on speech produces a moral paradox, particularly among academics and journalists: Those who are most militant about policing what they deem to be hate speech against minorities, women, gays, and trans communities are often the most tolerant of demeaning depictions, incendiary rhetoric, and violent imagery against whites and men.<\/p>\n<p>To those who see a double standard, such routine disparagement of masculinity and whiteness is a case study in hypocrisy that upends longstanding norms against stereotyping entire social groups. It\u2019s a manifestation of what Columbia University linguist and social commentator John McWhorter dubbed \u201cwoke racism\u201d in a 2021 book of the same name that warns of the dangerous spread of \u201cthe kinds of language, policies, and actions that Orwell wrote of as fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But its advocates insist there is no double standard; they argue they are simply speaking truth to power, which\u00a0<em>should<\/em>\u00a0cause discomfort. In this belief system, reverse discrimination can\u2019t exist because social justice demands tipping the scales to favor marginalized groups to correct for centuries of injustice.<\/p>\n<p>They include Rutgers University historian James Livingston who, in a Facebook critique of gentrification, described a Harlem burger joint as being \u201coverrun with little Caucasian -ssholes who know their parents will approve of anything they do. Slide around the floor, you little sh-thead, sing loudly you unlikely moron. Do what you want, nobody here is gonna restrict your right to be white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post concluded: \u201cI hereby resign from my race. F-ck these people. Yeah, I know, it\u2019s about access to my dinner. F-ck you, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a phone call, Livingston, who is white, said his Facebook post was a joke targeted at white people who are privileged and therefore require less protection than marginalized groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite males have been the norm of our culture and our politics and our society and our economy for so long that unearthing the unstated assumptions that go into that is pretty hard work, and it reveals things that make us uncomfortable,\u201d Livingston said. \u201cSo do they need to be protected? I suppose. Everybody needs some protection. But I\u2019m not too worried about people telling me that I have no right to speak on the issue of transgender individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Livingston was initially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/rutgers-investigation-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found in violation<\/a>\u00a0of Rutgers\u2019 discrimination and harassment policy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/victory-rutgers-reverses-punishment-of-professor-who-posted-about-resigning-from-the-white-race-on-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rutgers later reversed its decision<\/a>, accepting his claim that his Facebook post was satire protected by academic freedom.<\/p>\n<h3>Festering for Decades<\/h3>\n<p>It can seem that such putdowns and trash talk have burst out of nowhere in the last few years. But the underlying justifications have been percolating for decades, and they are seen by skeptics as a modern repackaging of ancient us-versus-them tribal reflexes. Telltale signs of role reversal have been described by serious thinkers, such as 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote that \u201cHe who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More recently, author Douglas Murray has warned of the tendency for social justice movements to \u201cbehave \u2014 in victory \u2014 as its opponents once did\u201d \u2014 which is to say: meanly \u2014 and which ultimately results in \u201cthe normalization of vengefulness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea that stereotyping and denigrating entire groups has no place in a society that strives for equality is one of the signature achievements of the Civil Rights era. By the 1970s, openly expressing racist slurs and jokes against black people was seen as a distasteful holdover from the Jim Crow era, an Archie Bunker-ism signifying low education and low intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The prohibition against racist speech rapidly became generalized to all identity groups. Ethnic slurs against Poles, Italians, Asians, and others became verboten as did mockery of gays and the disabled. Many words once commonly used to describe women, such as \u201cdame\u201d and \u201cbroad\u201d became unacceptable, while terms that were once seen as neutral or descriptive, such as \u201ccolored,\u201d \u201cOriental,\u201d and \u201cNegro,\u201d suddenly took on negative connotations, and became unutterable in public (creating a replacement term, \u201cpeople of color\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>But at the same time that these language taboos against expressing prejudice were becoming widely accepted across the political spectrum as a matter of civility, a far-more radical effort to regulate speech was percolating on the left.<\/p>\n<p>This movement sought to limit speech on the rationale that language was a form of social control and therefore the source of oppression and violence. The assumption that hurtful language leads to harmful policies ultimately produced today\u2019s cancel culture phenomenon, where otherwise well-regarded professionals are investigated, suspended, canned, or booted from social media for simply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kriegman.substack.com\/p\/post-leading-to-termination-blm-falsehoods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">questioning the factual claims of Black Lives Matter<\/a>, for affirming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2022\/06\/23\/i-got-thrown-off-etsy-and-paypal-for-expressing-my-belief-in-biological-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biological sex differences<\/a>, for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonsense.news\/p\/he-made-a-joke-about-land-acknowledgements?r=7wjmc&amp;utm_medium=ios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">satirizing ritual land acknowledgements<\/a>, and even for publicly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/scared-to-death-to-teach-internal-report-cites-chilling-effect-at-southern-cal-after-business-professors-removal?cid2=gen_login_refresh&amp;cid=gen_sign_in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying the Mandarin word<\/a>\u00a0\u201cnei-ge\u201d (because it supposedly resembles a racial epithet in English).<\/p>\n<p>The core proposition of this mindset can be traced to philosophers like Michel Foucault, who developed theories of language as a form of societal power and domination, and Herbert Marcuse, the Marxist scholar whose now-classic\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/la.utexas.edu\/users\/hcleaver\/330T\/350kPEEMarcuseToleranceTable.pdf\">1960s essay, \u201cRepressive Tolerance,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0argues that the oppressor class and the oppressed cannot be held to the same standard. Marcuse proposed that the classical liberal doctrine of free speech is a mechanism that benefits capitalists and others who wield power, that the struggle for \u201ca real democracy\u201d paradoxically necessitates \u201cthe fight against an ideology of tolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The subversive intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s passed on the torch to Critical Race Theorists and radical feminists, and in the 1990s the critique of bourgeoisie liberalism was taken up by Stanley Fish, a post-modernist literary critic and critical legal scholar who ridiculed the idea of \u201cfree speech\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/past\/docs\/politics\/race\/fish.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reverse racism<\/a>,\u201d giving wider exposure to these esoteric scholarly arguments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy insisting that\u00a0<em>from now on\u00a0<\/em>there shall be no discrimination, they leave in place the effects of the discrimination that had been practiced for generations,\u201d Fish wrote. \u201cWhat is usually meant by perfect neutrality is a policy that leaves in place the effects of the discrimination you now officially repudiate. Neutrality thus perpetuates discrimination, rather than reversing it, for you can only fight discrimination with discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the Obama era, Fish was a celebrity public intellectual publishing pieces in The New York Times titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/12\/two-cheers-for-double-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Two Cheers for Double Standards<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/04\/the-harm-in-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Harm in Free Speech<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus it came to be accepted that creating a just society will require controlling speech to disempower the historically privileged and empower aggrieved groups, and to undo sex, gender, and racial disparities in society.<\/p>\n<p>At Georgetown University, for example, it means that academic freedom is balanced against an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/deans-statement-re-ilya-shapiro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cequally important\u201d<\/a>\u00a0competing goal \u2014 diversity and \u201cequity,\u201d the latter vaguely defined \u2014 which puts the two policies on a collision course.<\/p>\n<p>Just this year, constitutional legal scholar\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ilyashapiro.substack.com\/p\/what-its-like-when-an-online-mob?r=7wjmc&amp;utm_medium=ios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ilya Shapiro resigned from a plum job<\/a>\u00a0at Georgetown\u2019s law school over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/ilya-shapiro-tweets-about-biden-supreme-court-nominee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a tweet<\/a>\u00a0in which Shapiro voiced his frustration that President Biden had promised to name a black woman to the Supreme Court. Shapiro recommended Indian-born federal jurist Sri Srinivasan and lamented that Biden\u2019s racial litmus test meant he would instead nominate a \u201clesser black woman.\u201d That phrase \u2014 which Shapiro subsequently described as \u201cinartful\u201d and for which he apologized, taking down the tweet \u2014 prompted an internal investigation by the university\u2019s Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity &#038; Affirmative Action.<\/p>\n<p>Georgetown\u2019s law dean denounced Shapiro\u2019s January tweet as \u201cdemeaning\u201d and \u201cappalling,\u201d but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/ilya-shapiro-resignation-letter-to-georgetown-university-law-center-june-6-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in his subsequent resignation letter<\/a>\u00a0Shapiro noted that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/georgetown-condemns-disrespectful-discourse-professor-154051029.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Georgetown defended the academic freedom of a feminist professor<\/a>\u00a0when sent this tweet during Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Look at this chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist\u2019s arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a phone conversation, Shapiro said his experience serves as a reminder of why free speech standards should apply uniformly to all citizens, rather than trying to compensate political identity groups based on theories of intersectional oppression. Such attempts end up being arbitrary, ideological, and political.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose kinds of theories are laughable,\u201d said Shapiro, who is now director of constitutional studies at the conservative Manhattan Institute. \u201cThis idea of punching up and punching down, it all depends on definitions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro said that definitions can be rigged so that the term marginalized or underrepresented in the academic context never refers to conservatives or libertarians who constitute ideological minorities on campus and have been documented as being reluctant to express their opinions\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heterodoxacademy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/CES-Report-2022-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for fear of cancel culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you define it in ways that privileges your ideology, well then you\u2019re going to get the output that you\u2019re looking for in the first place,\u201d Shapiro said. \u201cIt\u2019s arguing that you\u2019re rectifying a structural power dynamic when what you\u2019re doing is shifting the power to favor your preferred group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It may come as a surprise that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CChristineFair\/status\/1488226632099786755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one of Shapiro\u2019s defenders<\/a>\u00a0was Christine Fair, the Georgetown security studies professor who in 2018 had tweeted about castrating male corpses and feeding them to swine.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, Fair said Shapiro\u2019s tweet wasn\u2019t offensive. But even if it was, she said, that shouldn\u2019t matter: \u201cWe have no right not to be offended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fair thrives on controversy and provocation. She has a blog called <a href=\"https:\/\/shortbustoparadise.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tenacious Hellp-ssy<\/a>, subtitled \u201cA nasty woman posting from the frontlines of f-ckery.\u201d She publicly defended her 2018 tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/twitter-suspends-georgetown-professor-kavanaugh-supporters-deserve-miserable-1148829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at the time<\/a>, tweeting: \u201cI will not use civil words to describe mass incivility. \u2026 I will use words that make you as uncomfortable as I am with this regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI detest cancel culture,\u201d Fair said in a phone interview. \u201cI don\u2019t think they fundamentally understand freedom of speech. They think there is a right to freedom\u00a0<em>from<\/em>\u00a0speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But what was her motive at the time to use such gratuitously graphic language that was guaranteed to blow up in her face? She summarized her motives as giving her political enemies a taste of their own medicine: \u201cLet me show you what structural violence sounds like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fair said that her 2018 tweet was not without grievous consequences. After receiving death threats and rape threats, her teaching duties were suspended for a year out of concern for her physical safety. Even as she publicly defended her free speech rights to be provocative and outrageous, Fair \u201clugubriously apologized\u201d to staff and faculty members who were subjected to online threats and \u201cterrorized\u201d by trolls because of Fair\u2019s intemperate tweeting.<\/p>\n<p>Speech codes have been a staple of college campuses for decades, but the stakes intensified after Donald Trump was elected president and the nation underwent a social transformation that some call the Great Awokening. Seemingly overnight the bar for permissible speech rose for the oppressor and dropped for the oppressed. And now it was overtly about politicizing and weaponizing speech to save humanity from itself.<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve in 2016, just weeks before Trump took office, a Drexel University political science professor, George Ciccariello-Maher,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2016\/12\/26\/drexel-professor-tweets-all-i-want-for-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pulled an attention-getting stunt<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter: \u201cAll I want for Christmas is white genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next day, the provocative professor pushed the nuclear buttons again: \u201cTo clarify: when the whites were massacred during the Haitian revolution, that was a good thing indeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drexel officials denounced the professor\u2019s comments as \u201cutterly reprehensible\u201d and \u201cutterly disturbing,\u201d and subsequently put him on administrative leave (for his own safety). The professor denounced Drexel\u2019s response as \u201cchilling\u201d to his academic freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Ciccariello-Maher was just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/posteverything\/wp\/2017\/10\/10\/conservatives-are-the-real-campus-thought-police-squashing-academic-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">getting started<\/a>. He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/igdcast-george-ciccariello-maher-free-speech-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went on the offensive<\/a>\u00a0in 2017 against free speech advocacy and took pride in being involved in a campaign to shout down conservative speaker Charles Murray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re actually fighting a battle,\u201d Ciccariello-Maher said on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itsgoingdown.org\/igdcast-george-ciccariello-maher-free-speech-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a 2017 podcast<\/a>, \u201cand for that battle we need to use weapons, and we need to fight against the enemies that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He proclaimed: \u201cWe make a mistake from the beginning when we assume that speech is and has been free instead of a terrain for hegemonic struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A year after his controversial tweets, Ciccariello-Maher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2018\/01\/02\/controversial-drexel-professor-resigns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resigned<\/a>\u00a0from Drexel,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/28\/us\/drexel-university-professor-resigns\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">citing<\/a>\u00a0nonstop harassment and threats from right-wing, white supremacist media outlets and internet mobs.<\/p>\n<p>The changing dynamic played out in public view at The New York Times in 2018, when the media organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/13\/business\/media\/quinn-norton-new-york-times.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hired and then quickly un-hired<\/a> opinion writer Quinn Norton for several gaffes, including retweeting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPBarlow\/status\/3760544030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a tweet with the N-word<\/a> and fraternizing with an alleged neo-Nazi.<\/p>\n<p>Just six months after tossing Norton, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-45052534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stood by another opinion writer<\/a>, Sarah Jeong, a Korean-born graduate of U Cal Berkeley and Harvard law school whose Twitter oeuvre trafficked in crude racial stereotypes. Jeong, who was fond of the hashtag #CancelWhitePeople, tweeted out such sentiments as: \u201cWhite people have stopped breeding. you\u2019ll all go extinct soon. that was my plan all along.\u201d And: \u201cDumb-ss f-cking white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The New York Times was pilloried for its double standard, progressive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/8\/3\/17648566\/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-twitter-andrew-sullivan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digital pundits at Vox <\/a>came to Jeong\u2019s defense, patiently explaining for the umpteenth time that Jeong was to be exempt from censure because \u201cthere\u2019s no such thing as \u2018reverse racism.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ezra Klein, the former editor of Vox who\u2019s now an influential podcaster at the Times, accused Jeong\u2019s critics of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/technology\/2018\/8\/8\/17661368\/sarah-jeong-twitter-new-york-times-andrew-sullivan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an absurd form of literalism<\/a>.\u201d He said the public misguidedly interpreted the online meme #KillAllMen literally, when Twitter habitu\u00e9s who are in on the joke understood that it really meant nothing more than \u201cit would be nice if the world sucked less for women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Vox writer dismissed the idea that we should all play by the same rules and spelled out how the \u201csocial justice left\u201d approaches the world: \u201cWhat makes these quasi-satirical generalizations about \u2018white people\u2019 different from actual racism is, yes, the underlying power structure in American society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no sense of threat associated with Jeong making a joke about how white people have dog-like opinions,\u201d the Vox piece said. \u201cBut when white people have said the same about minorities, it has historically been a pretext for violence or justification for exclusionary politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many Americans are still trying to figure out the boundaries of acceptable speech at a time when striving for colorblindness and equal treatment marks a person as part of the problem. However sensible it might have seemed a half-century ago as a corrective measure or to alleviate pangs of guilt, the creation of separate standards for different groups now strikes some as profoundly regressive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe development of two separate language codes, one for whites and one for blacks, was ominous,\u201d the conservative writer Christopher Caldwell observed in his 2020 book,\u00a0\u201cThe Age of Entitlement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>The rules of American public decorum now resembled medieval strictures that permitted only noblemen to carry weapons or ride horses, or laws that forbade certain classes of citizens to address others by a certain name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearwire.com\/articles\/2022\/09\/07\/how_blatant_anti-white_racism_won_acceptance_in_elite_america_850879.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> was originally published by RealClearInvestigations and made available via RealClearWire.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  John Murawski reports on the intersection of culture and ideas for RealClearInvestigations. He previously covered artificial intelligence for the Wall Street Journal and spent 15 years as a reporter for the News &#038; Observer (Raleigh, NC) writing about health care, energy, and business. 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