{"id":165532,"date":"2021-02-23T18:06:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T23:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=165532"},"modified":"2021-02-23T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T23:44:15","slug":"knowles-white-people-cant-be-any-less-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-white-people-cant-be-any-less-white\/","title":{"rendered":"KNOWLES: White People Can\u2019t Be Any \u201cLess White\u201d"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fknowles-white-people-cant-be-any-less-white%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=165532&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1227673155-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Goodbye, pastel polo shirts.&nbsp;<em>Au revoir<\/em>, cucumber sandwiches. Penny loafers, I think I\u2019ll miss you most of all. But corporate experts in \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d such as \u201canti-racism\u201d consultant Robin DiAngelo want us to \u201cbe a little less white,\u201d as screenshots from a \u201cdiversity\u201d training session associated with the Coca-Cola Company revealed over the weekend. Coca-Cola has since denied that the slides are \u201cpart of the company\u2019s curriculum,\u201d but the soda giant also admitted&nbsp;training employees to access the education platform that hosts the lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Coca-Cola intended to promote that specific slideshow or not, DiAngelo\u2019s brand of \u201canti-racism\u201d has taken over training programs on campus and in corporate offices across the country. Whiteness has never played much of a role in my sense of identity. Many other categories \u2014 e.g., Catholic, American, conservative, etc. \u2014 spring to mind before \u201cwhite\u201d enters the picture. But who am I to question one of the nation\u2019s leading race hustlers?<\/p>\n<p>Like me, DiAngelo hails from an Italian family, which makes her professional peddling of white guilt all the more strange, as Italians were long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/An_Offer_We_Can_t_Refuse\/2482tWkpfpQC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=italians+%22racial+middle+ground%22&amp;pg=PA261&amp;printsec=frontcover\">considered<\/a> to occupy a \u201cracial middle ground\u201d between whites and blacks, at least in the Jim Crow South. The law classified Italians as white, but society often disagreed. The largest mass lynching in American history targeted and killed 11 Italian-Americans in New Orleans. Yet even we swarthiest of southern European stock must now endeavor to become \u201cless white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DiAngelo\u2019s curriculum explains how white people can try to rid ourselves of our race. \u201cBe less oppressive,\u201d the slides enjoin readers, \u201cbe less arrogant, be less certain, be less defensive, be less ignorant, be more humble, listen, believe, break with apathy, break with white solidarity.\u201d How exactly one can simultaneously \u201cbe less certain\u201d and \u201cbelieve,\u201d the instructor never manages to explain. Neither does she convey how white people might eschew \u201cwhite\u201d culture without consequently \u201cappropriating\u201d the culture of others. But most challenging of all, it is physically impossible for white people to be less white unless they darken their skin, which the radical race-baiters have prohibited for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/01\/politics\/northam-blackface-photo\/index.html\">everyone<\/a> other than <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5680759\/justin-trudeau-brownface-photo\/\">leftist politicians<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/2019\/2\/8\/20665327\/a-video-of-jimmy-kimmel-dressed-in-blackface-as-utah-jazz-legend-karl-malone-has-resurfaced-here-s-w\">celebrities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to popular propaganda, on a metaphysical level, white people are already just about the least \u201cwhite\u201d we can be. According to a 2019 Pew Research Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2020\/02\/05\/most-black-adults-say-race-is-central-to-their-identity-and-feel-connected-to-a-broader-black-community\/\">survey<\/a>, only 5% of white people consider race to be \u201cextremely important\u201d to their identity. Another 10% consider it \u201cvery important.\u201d The majority of respondents from every other racial group deemed race central to their identity. Black respondents ranked highest in racial consciousness, with 52% declaring race \u201cextremely\u201d important to their identity and nearly three-quarters considering it at least \u201cvery\u201d important.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the political activists urging white people to \u201cbe less white\u201d seek the very opposite. They want white people, who overwhelmingly ignore racial identity, to be more white \u2014 if only so they can feel guilty for it. Inverting an older use of \u201cwhite\u201d that connoted virtue (e.g., \u201cthat\u2019s mighty white of you\u201d), today\u2019s \u201canti-racists\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2020\/jun\/25\/abolish-whiteness-academic-calls-for-cambridge-support\">reveal<\/a> a formal similarity to their \u201cracist\u201d foes by making \u201cwhite\u201d into a synonym for wickedness, something society ought to diminish or better yet \u201cabolish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The corporate diversity training goes on to insist, \u201cIn the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white.\u201d&nbsp;<span class=\"gmail_default\">Audiences who<\/span> sit through this racist slideshow or countless similar trainings might dispute that characterization. In reality, race hustlers and cultural revolutionaries have made a mint selling racial grievance and white guilt. Their efforts have undone decades of hard-won <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1687\/race-relations.aspx\">racial harmony<\/a>. Amid calls for \u201cwhiteness\u201d to wane, racial identity waxes \u2014 ironic, unless that was the point all along.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-the-metoo-movement-can-teach-conservatives-about-liberty\">More from Michael Knowles: What The #MeToo Movement Can Teach Conservatives About Liberty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>member<\/em><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye, pastel polo shirts.\u00a0Au revoir, cucumber sandwiches. Penny loafers, I think I\u2019ll miss you most of all. But corporate experts in \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d such as \u201canti-racism\u201d consultant Robin &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893515,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}