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Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, June 26, 2015

The only way to please the “anti-racists.”

Joseph Sobran famously challenged liberals to define a society in which they would beconservatives. Today, the challenge is to define a society in which white people are notracist.

The last half century has seen a continual shifting of the goalposts when it comes todefining “racism.” During the so-called Civil Rights movement, the premise behind everypiece of federal legislation was that African-Americans were simply white Americans witha different skin color. Once state barriers were removed, inequality would be a thing of thepast. The American conservative movement still believes the United States can “getbeyond race” and treat everyone as individuals.

Fifty years since its inception, the Civil Rights movement has not ended inequality oreliminated racial tensions. Instead, entire communities, especially Civil Rights battlefieldssuch as Selma and Birmingham, suffered “white flight” as European-Americans fled theconsequences of diversity. And no sooner had race ostensibly been eliminated fromAmerican law, it was re-introduced in the form of “Affirmative Action,” or racialpreferences directed against whites and Asians.

This, we were told, was necessary to compensate for the past effects of discrimination. Andwe were also told there was a time limit. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing in 2003 forthe majority in Grutter v. Bollinger, claimed that in 25 years they would not longer beneeded.

She was wrong, because racism has now been redefined as being “colorblind.” To say “youdon’t see race” is to actually admit that you are a racist. Being anti-racist meansunderstanding the systematic role “white privilege” played in stacking the deck againstPeople of Color. (Asians, who outperform whites economically and academically, don’tcount.)

Indeed, even whites who are trying to help people of color are often accused of having a“savior complex.” Popular musician Lindsey Stirling, as G-rated an entertainer as could be,found herself called “offensive” for her charity work in Kenya. By simply showing therewas poverty in Africa, journalists intoned, she was promoting a hurtful, “antiquated”image of the Dark Continent.

During the Occupy movement, issues of class inequality and protests against Wall Streetwere quickly subordinated to left-wing identity politics. Whites were relegated to the backof the speaking order at meetings. There have even been clashes between white anarchistsand non-white anarchist groups who accuse the former of “gentrification.”

The great political strength of “white privilege” as a concept is its supposed explanatorypower and unfalsifiable nature. If every example of racial inequality can be pinned on“white privilege,” no non-white ever has to be responsible for failure.

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White privilege has done what was once thought impossible. It allows you to prove anegative because if you do not denounce racism energetically enough, you are racistyourself.

But how are whites supposed to prove they are anti-racist?”

If they move into a black neighborhood, they are colonizers promoting gentrification. Ifthey leave, they are engaging in racist white flight that hurts the community.

If whites do hip-hop or use black slang or fashion symbols, they are guilty of culturalappropriation. If they claim to have their own spiritual or cultural traditions that belongonly to them, they are guilty of segregation and racism.

If whites don’t sufficiently ameliorate the suffering of the Third World, they are implicitlyadmitting their dehumanization of the “Other.” But if they try to help the Third World,they are revealing white supremacy by saying People of Color need to be “saved.”

This is not a bug, but a feature of “white privilege.” There is no situation it does not fit.There is nothing whites can do to prove they are not racist. The only coherent andconsistent meaning behind the ideology is that whites–and only whites–are uniquely eviland responsible for suffering in the world.

Every white person, around the world, no matter how self-loathing, is guilty. So whypretend otherwise? Like the aliens in Independence Day, the supposed anti-racists don’twant to co-exist with us. They want us to disappear.

The logical conclusion is not just to take down the Confederate flag, which has alreadybeen removed from Walmart, eBay, Amazon, Google Shopping, Sears, the Apple AppStore, the Alabama State Capitol, and the gift shops at Fort Sumter and the Gettysburgbattlefield. Even taking down the American flag won’t satisfy them.

Fox News personality Gavin McInnis has hit on the perfect solution: “We need to do morethan just take down a flag. We need to stand up and recognize the inherent privilege thatcomes from being white. Please join me by posting pics of yourself taken down.”

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White people are a symbol of hatred and oppression. #TakeUsDown 9:21 AM - 24 Jun 2015

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We encourage our readers to join the fight against white privilege. Tweet your photosusing #TakeUsDown.

@Gavin_McInnes Im waiting for the Semi Truck of Social Injustice to end my privilege. #takeusdown 7:33 PM - 25 Jun 2015

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Doing my part to eliminate symbols of hatred and oppression in the workplace. #TakeUsDown #TGMS 11:22 AM - 25 Jun 2015

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@Gavin_McInnes Currently loathing in a tub of my own guilt tears. So sorry. #TakeUsDown 5:16 PM - 25 Jun 2015

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Double the guilt. #TakeUsDown #TGMS @Gavin_McInnes 7:34 PM - 25 Jun 2015

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Mr. Hood has been active in conservative youth movements in the US.