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Reporter escorted out of 'White Privilege' workshop because he is white
A reporter attending this year's White Privilege Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, was escorted out of a workshop because he is white.
Progressives Today reported the conference had "segregated workshops open to only some conference participants, based solely on the color of their skin."
A reality one of their staff found out the hard way when he was escorted out of a workshop.
"It can feel, for some people of color, unsafe," an organizer said, according to Progressives Today. "Not universally – like in your group everybody was fine, but for some people it can feel like… Oh, I don't..."
"Because I was white they would feel unsafe?" the reporter asked.
"Exactly," the organizer responded. "Exactly. And it's not because you've done anything. You seem like a perfectly fine person, but it's because of experiences they've had with others."
Or, as the definition of racism states, the attendees were intolerant of his race.
Also read: White Privilege Conference speakers judge by skin color and claim rape is not intrinsically bad
The other day Joan Walsh of Salon.com ended the year the way she undoubtedly began it: by demonstrating what a good white person she is by pointing fingers at those bad whites who don't agree with her politically and accusing them of being hyper-sensitive white supremacists.
She also took pains to describe how she's been virtually martyred by other proggies because of her "moderate" stance on this issue:
I have been someone who tried to see and point out the elements of those grievances that weren't racial, but real: the genuine erosion of economic stability and opportunity for the white working and middle classes. (I wrote a book about it.) And early in 2013 I endured my own mini-backlash for suggesting, in "How to talk about white people," that sometimes Democrats and social-justice advocates talk about race in ways that are unnecessarily divisive and punishing to whites.
I was honestly unprepared for the criticism, but I understand it better now. To suggest that there's any way that the rhetoric of either "people of color" or racial liberals is to blame for white paranoia and racism seems like the essence of victim blaming. Of course that wasn't my intent; I would argue that it stemmed from a very human impulse to try to feel you have some kind of control over forces you don't. Sadly, or not, I realized this year that liberals have very little control over the way white people respond to racial change (though I will always argue that economic populism has more power to build cross-racial coalitions than the pro-Wall Street, multiracial neoliberalism practiced by too many Democrats over the last 20 years.)
Whatever would we do without the guidance of our "racial liberal" overlords? Since she differentiates between "racial liberals" and "people of color" I can only assume that "racial liberals" is a euphemism for white people. Apparently the key to checking one's "white privilege" is to pretend that you're not really "white" at all...because everybody knows how evil white folks are, right... RIGHT?!
Of course, people have all kinds of racial complaints and reality is different than The Narrative pushed by proglodytes like Joan Walsh. But I'm not really interested in talking about any of that in this post. No, it's all about this:
Uh oh! Clearly that's no way to treat an enlightened "racial liberal" like Joan Walsh.
Here are three columns written by Thomas Sowell this week, published in Capitalism Magazine (and elsewhere) on the subject of race in America. Since false accusations of "racism" are essentially the only "arguments" that the Left is capable of vomiting up these days, Dr. Sowell's views are especially pertinent.
Race-Hustling Results
A painful moment for me, years ago, when I was on the lecture circuit, came after a talk at Marquette University, when a young black student rose and asked: "Even though I am graduating from Marquette University, what hope is there for me?"
Back in the 1950s, when I was a student, I never encountered any fellow black student who expressed such hopelessness, even though there was far more racial discrimination then. We knew that there were obstacles for us to overcome, and we intended to overcome them.
The memory of that Marquette student came back to me, years later, when another black young man said that he had wanted to become a pilot, and had even planned to join the Air Force in order to do so. But then, he said, he now "realized" that "The Man" would never allow a black guy to become a pilot.
This was said decades after a whole squadron of black fighter plane pilots made a reputation for themselves in World War II, as the "Tuskegee Airmen." There have been black generals in the Air Force.
Race-Hustling Results: Washington Redskins and "White Guilt"
Shelby Steele's best-selling book "White Guilt" provides sharp insights into the many counterproductive consequences of white guilt that can be exploited by race hustlers, to the detriment of blacks and whites alike. The sports team gambit is just one of many.
So long as the race industry - the Al Sharptons, Jesse Jacksons, and their counterparts in various minorities - can get political or financial mileage out of being offended, they are going to be offended. The only thing that will put a stop to this racket is refusing to be taken in by it or intimidated by it.
Looked at in isolation, Bob Costas' opinion about the names of sports teams is one that reasonable people might agree or disagree with. But, unfortunately, this issue is not something that exists in isolation. It is part of a whole grievance-generating campaign that poisons race relations. That campaign is conducted not only by the race industry but also by all too many in the media and in the education system, from elementary schools to the universities.
Race-Hustling Results: Polarization of American Society and Future Race Wars
More dangerous than these highly publicized episodes over the years are innumerable organized and unprovoked physical attacks on whites by young black gangs in shopping malls, on beaches and in other public places all across the country today.
While some of these attacks make it into the media as isolated incidents, the nationwide pattern of organized black on white attacks by thugs remains invisible in the mainstream media, with the notable exception of Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Channel.
Even when these attacks are accompanied by shouts of anti-white rhetoric and exultant laughter at the carnage, the racial makeup of the attackers and their victims is usually ignored by the media, and public officials often deny that race has anything to do with what happened.
These attacks have sent many people to the hospital, and some have died, but the attacks are often carried out in a festive atmosphere. What are called "troubled youths," in this and other contexts, are often in fact young people enjoying themselves greatly by creating big trouble for others.
