Mr. Fortgang didn't write this essay anonymously. Thanks to Chickensoup, I've since learned that the site I found erred in attributing this to "anonymous."
Mr. Fortgang's initial essay - written under his name - appeared in The Princeton Tory, "[a] journal of conservative and moderate thought."
The overwhelming majority of comments at that site essentially tell him to shut his white-privileged mouth, and that his family story doesn't matter because he's white-privileged because he's white.
One comment points out that Mr. Fortang's family story of a few generations of inconvenience (okay, I made up the 'inconvenience' part) doesn't compare with the 300 years of oppression that blacks have suffered in America. I think to myself "300 years. Hmmm. Gee, I can't think of any oppression that Jewish individuals have ever suffered throughout history (tongue firmly planted in cheek)."
It's well worth reading ten or fifteen comments, if just to get an idea about how Mr. Fortang will be treated at Princeton after publication of this essay.
Thanks Scoutmaster.
Too depressing for words. Assuming that a lot of these are Princeton students, the best and the brightest, we are in for a lot of merde.
They don’t agree with him nor do they see the point of just leaving people alone and not focusing on race or ethnicity.
They still want to call some people better than others,and their hierarchy has, inexplicably, at the top those with darker skins period. They are so blind I don’t see how they even find air to breathe.
For example, the lesbian who commented and railed that people say “it was that black/Asian man over there” and that they’d never say that about whites, what does she think people say in a black neighborhood? Of course to hell they do say “it was that white /Asian guy over there.” In an Asian neighborhood they would do exactly the same thing, not say “Asian guy, but they’d say black or white.” DUH. And they are all that smug and just plain stupid.