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2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege
Foreign Policy ^ | DECEMBER 27, 2017 | Max Boot

Posted on 12/28/2017 2:02:14 PM PST by WatchungEagle

2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege

I used to be a smart-alecky conservative who scoffed at “political correctness.” The Trump era has opened my eyes.

In college — this was in the late 1980s and early 1990s at the University of California, Berkeley — I used to be one of those smart-alecky young conservatives who would scoff at the notion of “white male privilege” and claim that anyone propagating such concepts was guilty of “political correctness.” As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union, I felt it was ridiculous to expect me to atone for the sins of slavery and segregation, to say nothing of the household drudgery and workplace discrimination suffered by women. I wasn’t racist or sexist. (Or so I thought.) I hadn’t discriminated against anyone. (Or so I thought.) My ancestors were not slave owners or lynchers; they were more likely victims of the pogroms.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: foreignpolicy; maxboot; neocon; whiteprivilege
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To: MuttTheHoople

With that title it would just have to be satire, but it isn’t satire.It is egregious ninnery.


21 posted on 12/28/2017 2:23:49 PM PST by arthurus (dyit)
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To: WatchungEagle

MAX Asshole
MAX Pomposity
MAX Ingrate


22 posted on 12/28/2017 2:26:08 PM PST by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: WatchungEagle

Give him a Twinkie and a Blankie and a Safe Space. Yeesh!


23 posted on 12/28/2017 2:29:35 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: WatchungEagle

This has to be satire..?


24 posted on 12/28/2017 2:30:31 PM PST by Thunder 6
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To: WatchungEagle

Does he know cops shoot more white people than black? A friend of mine Ed Reed, white guy, was shot by a cop in Brooklyn NY 25 years ago for a simple car stop. He got out of the car like an idiot and the cop shot him in the arm and he survived and me personally when I use to drive a Yellow cab in New York city I would be stopped on average 3 to 4 times a week, and quite a number of those times the cop had his gun out. The black cops were the absolute worst because they would get revenge for taxis not picking up blacks - which I did BTW - and they would abuse the living effin crap out of me. I remember one time I made an illegal left turn and this black cop kept me waiting over two hours while he wrote me out 6 tickets for everything from the illegal left turn, garbage on the floor, not having my trip sheet filled out, dome light missing a bulb, on and on. When I finally quit a few years later I had so many tickets it took almost 5 years to resolve them all. THAT is cop abuse which of course the MSM would never report and F these morons like this guy this white privilege garbage. Take a look at that moron Sheila Jackson Lee. That is a direct product of BLACK privilege called affirmative action. This absolute moron or all morons somehow getting a degree in law and political science when she probably couldn’t pass a basic 4th grade aptitude test yet walks around like she is owed the world.


25 posted on 12/28/2017 2:32:17 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (The remoulade was a trifle tart, but the souflee for dessert more than made up for it.)
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To: MuttTheHoople
"Is this serious or satire?"

I started reading and then began to skip down to find the punch line. But there is no punch line. He appears to be serious.

Max Boot is now a total cuck.

26 posted on 12/28/2017 2:33:45 PM PST by Neanderthal (When you import the third world you become the third world)
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To: WatchungEagle
FUMB

27 posted on 12/28/2017 2:34:10 PM PST by Company Man (Best election ever)
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To: LeonardFMason

MAXi Pad


28 posted on 12/28/2017 2:34:39 PM PST by Third Person (Without double standards the left would have no standards at all.)
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To: WatchungEagle

Only in Bizarro World would Maximus Bootay be considered a conservative.


29 posted on 12/28/2017 2:36:16 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: WatchungEagle

I’m just hoping that my white privilege works better than that of those kids on the Duke lacrosse team.


30 posted on 12/28/2017 2:36:42 PM PST by Stosh
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To: WatchungEagle

This has got to be satire...

...right?

Right?


31 posted on 12/28/2017 2:37:28 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WatchungEagle

In college ... at the University of California, Berkeley

Max, that was a mistake.


32 posted on 12/28/2017 2:41:23 PM PST by Jolla
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To: WatchungEagle

Hey Max, here’s your sign.


33 posted on 12/28/2017 2:43:08 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: WatchungEagle
As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union...

...I have the nerve to bitch about America and transform it into the kind of place I got the hell out of. I guess you already got yours, eh, Max?

Jerk.

34 posted on 12/28/2017 2:48:47 PM PST by niteowl77
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To: WatchungEagle

Max has showed himself to be yet another easily indoctrinated idiot.


35 posted on 12/28/2017 2:53:37 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: WatchungEagle

I’ll take my white privilege over your black ignorance any day...


36 posted on 12/28/2017 3:00:39 PM PST by qwerty1234
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To: WatchungEagle

The steaming pile of BS in the article is enough to raise the ire of other professional race hustlers; bo, almsharpie, amd the reverend Jesse hiJackson, King of the shakedown artists all come to mind.


37 posted on 12/28/2017 3:01:36 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: WatchungEagle

Some Jews just can’t help but hate themselves.


38 posted on 12/28/2017 3:02:22 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: MuttTheHoople

No, das Boot is a study as she goes race hustler.


39 posted on 12/28/2017 3:02:33 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I couldn’t have said it better.


40 posted on 12/28/2017 3:04:40 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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