Posted on 06/17/2015 5:21:46 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
The Internalized Racism of White Leftists June 17, 2015 by Daniel Greenfield
After Rachel Dolezal graduated from Howard University, a historically black college that is 95% black making it one of the least diverse schools in the country, she sued for racial discrimination alleging that she had been denied a teaching assistant position and financial aid because of her race.
She told her black adopted brother that the college had assumed she was black when she had applied.
According to her brother, “She used to tell us that teachers treated her differently than other people and a lot of them acted like they didn’t want her there.”
That experience might have made someone else racist, but Rachel Dolezal internalized the racism she experienced at Howard. And her brother states that it was what led her to become “self-hating”.
After that, she started being “hateful to white people.”
The road from being hated to self-hatred and then to joining the hater group is the dynamic of racism.
The racism that Rachel Dolezal experienced at Howard created a conflict between her self-image and her political ideology. By trying to ‘become’ black, Rachel tried to destroy her image. She accepted the left’s idea that whiteness was evil and reconciled her sense of self with her politics by changing her race.
Her solution is implicit in the idea of white privilege. Like so many black women in another era, Rachel internalized the idea that there was something wrong with her race. It’s easy to poke fun at her absurd masquerade, but underneath the tanning lotion and wig is a more disturbing breakdown, not just in one woman’s mental state, but in the way that the left hijacked the civil rights movement to spread hate.
At the intersection of black racism and leftist politics is the dehumanization of white people.
To understand the process that could produce someone as screwed up as Rachel Dolezal, we need to look back at Jane Elliot; the wicked stepmother of diversity training. Elliot’s technique was to emotionally abuse students in ways reminiscent of fringe cults and Soviet self-criticism sessions which break down an individual’s sense of identity by publicly attacking her sense of self.
Elliot’s infamous “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” technique involved separating people with blue eyes and emotionally abusing them to “cure” them of their racism. What “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” lacked in effectiveness, it more than made up for in malice. Jane Elliot’s racist child abuse was embraced by leftists and eventually became the keystone of diversity training.
In session after session, diversity trainers following in Elliot’s violently hateful footsteps singled out blond and blue-eyed women for abuse in public. There’s no way to know if Rachel Dolezal ever attended one of those sessions. The incredibly non-diverse Howard University, bookended on the least diverse college rankings by two other black schools, would probably not have attracted Elliot or her pupils.
But Dolezal had almost certainly watched movies of Elliot’s racist antics and accepted her message.
And by then it didn’t matter. The idea that white people were the problem and that abusing them was justified in the service of tolerance and progress had become the essence of social justice.
Or as Jane Elliot put it, “white people invented racism.” Destroy white people and you destroy racism.
The “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” exercise is no longer just a way for a twisted woman to abuse others, but permeates every area of leftist politics and culture. Its underlying idea, that racial progress requires abusing white people informs everything from “white people” memes to White House policy.
The left gave moral sanction to black racism and then its own radical activists joined in the frenzy.
The insane place that Dolezal comes from is the same one in which progressive hipsters strive to outdo each other with “white people” memes that would be denounced as racist if targeted at any other group. It’s the one in which the only group it’s truly safe to make racist jokes about is white people. Much as black colorism targeted blackness, the white colorism of leftists makes whiteness into its target.
White people are encouraged to view “whiteness” with contempt and to leave it behind for “diversity.” In culture, the two are considered opposite poles with “white” being bad and “diverse” being good. Anything from the plays of Shakespeare to a television show can be dismissed as bad for being “white.”
So far black people have yet to be cured of internalized racism (the doll test still tends to produce the same results) but some white people have internalized racism. Black children still choose the white doll, but adult products of the social justice system like Rachel Dolezal neurotically reject the white doll and then smash it into pieces on the floor while trying to smear bronzer on their faces.
And society is not any better off because there are now two races suffering from internalized racism.
The racism that Rachel Dolezal experienced did not lead to more tolerance because racism never cures racism; it only creates more racism. There have been white people like bandleader Johnny Otis who identified as black out of a love for black culture. But Otis’ enthusiastic “black by persuasion” had little in common with Dolezal’s twisted art filled with the racial fetishization of suffering black men and her own transformation into a caricature of a black woman while policing the racial identities of her students.
Rachel Dolezal’s blackness inhabited the left’s claustrophobic racial space in which white people are evil oppressors and black people are oppressed victims. Like Jane Elliot, Rachel Dolezal discovered that rejecting whiteness allowed her to do anything she liked in the name of social justice. Her newly acquired black skin privilege allowed her to endorse violence and fake hate crimes.
If good and evil were bound by color, then nothing she did as a white woman could be good and nothing that she did as a black woman could be bad. By switching race, she had transcended good and evil.
Her exposure only proved it.
As a black woman, Rachel Dolezal got away with faking hate crimes. It was only when she was exposed as a white woman that she got into trouble. It wasn’t the lying that was the problem. It was her race.
Rachel Dolezal’s attempt to physically pass for a black woman took internalized racism to an extreme, but the activist ranks of the left are filled with white men and women who talk much like her, delivering the same hateful rants about “white privilege” and justifying the #BlackLivesMatter race riots.
Internalized racism has become the engine of white leftism. Rachel Dolezal is diversity’s greatest triumph; a member of the “non-diverse” group who internalized racism so thoroughly that she tried to become black. Racism has gotten so bad that there are now white people passing as black people.
We can’t make progress by fighting racism with racism. Racial divisiveness isn’t civil rights. Under Obama, not only are race relations worse, but so is the economic status of black people. Abusing white people does not lift up black people. At best it creates freaks like Rachel Dolezal who hate white people so much that they begin wearing blackface while ranting about black power and white privilege.
Rachel Dolezal made many left-wingers uncomfortable because she embodied the absurdity of political correctness and the dark side of diversity. Her insane behavior is the outcome of an insane ideology. The social justice warriors rushing out their hot takes about her white privilege miss the central tragic point that her bizarre behavior was the logical outcome of their ideology taken to its inevitable extreme.
If the end result was insanity, that was because their racial ideology was insane.
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Maybe I’m just old school, ‘cause I just think she’s nutty as a squirrel turd.
Or, to be more succinct, she’s just barking mad.
Why would she go to a college that was 95% black in the first place?
At least it’s finally coming to light just how eff’d up race relations are since the big zero.
>>> The road from being hated to self-hatred and then to joining the hater group is the dynamic of racism. <<<
That might explain Rachel’s case. However, how do you account for so many young female seemingly start straight from self-hatred and then go down the road from there?
From what I observe (as an outsider) young girls growing up here in the States have been pampered like princesses at every turn, where does the self-hatred come from then?
Which is very strange, considering the observation made by David Badeagle:
Blonde white women must be the most attractive and desirable creatures on the planet, judging by the way black men crave them.
>>> And society is not any better off because there are now two races suffering from internalized racism. <<<
Also this statement ASSUMED the left want to improve our society.
Scratch a leftist and you unearth a totalitarian. The best way to achieve their goal is to spread discord and hatred, invent conflicts. It is all in the playbook.
Totalitarian fascism. They seek total authority over everyone and everything.
Unearned adoration is the most dangerous obsession. It destroys a child’s self image. They come to believe only those who hold them in contempt understand them.
She became a negro-worshiper in an effort to survive. She formed a strong emotional attachment to her new, hard-earned identity. She became infested with lies.
Pampering does not produce self-respect. Accomplishment does.
Let me explain as I am woman surrounded by these very women.
They are attention whores. No matter how much the men fall all over them, they need more attention. And if they dont get it they become beligerent and loud.
Its being a spoiled brat the needs CONTINUAL attention from everyone around them. Mostly women but I have seen this in the more effeminate men.
I want people to leave me alone. LOL Prefer to divert the attention. Thanks
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Elliot’s infamous “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” technique involved separating people with blue eyes and emotionally abusing them to “cure” them of their racism. What “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” lacked in effectiveness, it more than made up for in malice. Jane Elliot’s racist child abuse was embraced by leftists and eventually became the keystone of diversity training.
So much evil on the left... so much hatred.
A close acquaintance is the only liberal in our little group. I’ve heard him say “F***ING OLD WHITE GUYS” when pissed about some political thing. I finally called him on it and said “you are a F’ing old white guy, why the self hatred. You would never say anything like that about blacks, and you’d be mad if anyone of us did.
I think there is a tremendous amount of internalized self-hatred among whites. It may be even worse in the younger ages. I believe that one reason for the popularity of gayness is that it removes one from the hated “straight white male” category. As we’ve seen there is no repealing the “white” part of that, and as Bruce Jenner has shown getting rid of the male part is also time consuming, costly, and may not work that well.
I see it in the Conservative movement too, where many good Conservatives long to prove they are not racist before anything else. As a result really mediocre blacks are held up as if they are our saviors (I’m thinking of Alan Keys and Hermain Cain, but the same could be said to a lesser extent for both Condi Rice and Colin Powell).
You also hear this neurotic drivel like “race is a social construct” from Conservatives, who apparently don’t realize they are articulating a catechism of the left with that phrase.
I don’t believe in being over-proud of inherited characteristics, whether it’s beauty, intelligence or race. But it’s certainly a huge problem for America that our majority race has been, in large part, convinced it’s fallen and wicked. Until this is reversed we can’t really begin to fix America.
One of the things I’m looking for in a POTUS candidate is someone who can take our own side, without apology. But it’s going to take a lot more than one candidate to undo the decades of leftist indoctrination that has built in this self-hatred.
Louis, thanks for posting all the Greenfield threads. I read them all, your work and his is greatly appreciated.
As a black woman, Rachel Dolezal got away with faking hate crimes. It was only when she was exposed as a white woman that she got into trouble. It wasn’t the lying that was the problem. It was her race.
I quibble a little with this one - the lie is no more acceptable coming from a minority faker, it is simply impossible to do anything credible about it. Witness for example the number of clearly bogus sex crimes that remain unchallenged even after the likelihood of their ever having happened resolves to zero. What is important here in these and in racial cases is not the truth but the unassailability of the complainant. This is an issue of social status, not one of justice; the two are not, despite the earnest asseverations of the Left, the same thing.
On to the real issue here, the reaction to this saga of idiocy, pretension, and lies:
Rachel Dolezal made many left-wingers uncomfortable because she embodied the absurdity of political correctness and the dark side of diversity. Her insane behavior is the outcome of an insane ideology. The social justice warriors rushing out their hot takes about her white privilege miss the central tragic point that her bizarre behavior was the logical outcome of their ideology taken to its inevitable extreme.
Dolezal's saga was and is several things, none of them complimentary. For one, it was the cold calculation of the financial advantage of minority status on Dolezal's part - a resentment against being disadvantaged at Howard by being white, and the realization that minority status could open doors to a career in the grievance industry and a cushy professorial chair. For another, it was the emotional advantage of unassailable moral superiority. For a third, it was the comfort of anything bad ever happening to her being ascribable to the malice of others toward the color of her skin even if the latter was artificially enhanced by chemicals. For a fourth, it was the pure sadism of flogging a hated class in public and in private despite her own true membership in that class.
All of these plumb the depths of human depravity: the hypocrisy, the lying, the play-acting designed to hurt others, the stubborn rejection of truth in preference to a candy-coated social fairy tale. That these are signal characteristics of the politics of the Left is something that is profoundly threatening, the more so because nearly any self-reflective Leftist knows it. Those need a dose of deep denial, and they're mixing it up and swallowing it neat.
Yes, this has been the message in the media for a fair number of years.
White is bad. It is utterly insane, but that is what the left is. The entire philosophy of the left is based on lies.
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