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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: Neoliberalnot

That should be “steady”. Damn this word selection thing.


41 posted on 12/28/2017 3:07:03 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: WatchungEagle

David Brooks redux. Max will get on all the cool TV shows now.


42 posted on 12/28/2017 3:08:57 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: WatchungEagle

Boot is a jew. Jews aren’t white, in their own words.

https://forward.com/scribe/388791/im-not-white-im-jewish/

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-am-a-light-skinned-jew-i-am-not-white/

Boot is a fraud. He needs to go to Israel.


43 posted on 12/28/2017 3:13:46 PM PST by bkopto
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To: WatchungEagle

I have no privilege or guilt of any color.


44 posted on 12/28/2017 3:20:07 PM PST by I want the USA back (Politicians willingly sacrifice White Christians to their real god: muzzies)
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To: WatchungEagle

Lol, Max...it won’t get you laid.


45 posted on 12/28/2017 3:28:51 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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To: bkopto
Boot is a jew. Jews aren’t white, in their own words.

When these idiots say "white," what they really mean is WASP. That's why so many Jewish liberals try to disassociate themselves from the mainstream. Unfortunately there is a very Jewish -- and fatal -- weakness of sympathizing with the underdog, any underdog. They make no distinction between a terrorist and a child abuse victim. Unfortunately, as the Talmud says, those who are kind to the cruel become cruel to the kind.

I'm Jewish, BTW. I was never a "Yankee Doodle Dandy" type, but I am grateful for the WASPs who built up this country.

46 posted on 12/28/2017 3:37:54 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: WatchungEagle

Poor Max Boot not only drank the commie kool-aid, he atomized it and squirted it up his nose. I expect that soon he’ll wear a Che shirt and rationalize Stalin’s dictatorship.


47 posted on 12/28/2017 3:58:27 PM PST by sergeantdave
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If all these decades of sacrifice, hard work, commitment, family separations, and absolute shat jobs that just had to get done was my white privilege, I would have picked an easier skin color if I could have.


48 posted on 12/28/2017 4:01:08 PM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: MoochPooch
Max is a Jew and as others have pointed out Jews are not white, they are Jews.

Jews have their own group survival strategy, and it is obviously working very well. One of the of the most irritating tactics they use is "criticizing whites while pretending to be one".

Tim Wise made a career out of this. Susan Sontag wrote a whole book on it.

A good book to learn about the group survival strategies of the Jews is this one by Prof. Kevin McDonald.

As well as these two, slightly less well known:


49 posted on 12/28/2017 4:03:47 PM PST by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black
Jews have their own group survival strategy, and it is obviously working very well. One of the of the most irritating tactics they use is "criticizing whites while pretending to be one."

Which is why I don't take them seriously. The liberals, anyway -- they're as cracked as the Liberty Bell. As someone who grew up in an ultra-liberal -- and loony -- home, I have no love for any them. They have a problem with authority, probably from years of living in oppressed countries. I made up a joke: "Liberal Jews never left the 1960s. Orthodox Jews never left the 1860s."

Jews are not a monochrome society. The Orthodox are obviously socially conservative, although the Hassidic Jews vote Democrat for the social programs (I.e. welfare, Section 8). But there are many of us who voted for Trump -- and we are grateful, as well as loyal, to our host country.

Anyone born here won the lottery, regardless of race or religion.

50 posted on 12/28/2017 4:24:09 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: TTFlyer

I scanned some of the other hyperlink article titles on the FP webpage. Since when did it get so liberal? I always thought it was conservative, or at least centrist. Very scary.


51 posted on 12/28/2017 4:25:22 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: WatchungEagle

2018 will be the year Max learns how stupid he looks in a hat.

52 posted on 12/28/2017 4:26:32 PM PST by x
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To: Jack Black

Don’t be daft. Of course Jews (of European descent) are white.


53 posted on 12/28/2017 4:28:15 PM PST by x
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To: x

>Don’t be daft. Of course Jews (of European descent) are white.

Liberal Jews like to play a game where they can choose to be or not be white whenever they feel like it. When they rail against whites they exclude themselves. When they say nice things about whites, they include themselves.


54 posted on 12/28/2017 4:31:09 PM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: Jack Black
Jews have their own group survival strategy, and it is obviously working very well.

But unfortunately for them, the jews (Emmanuel Cellar in particular) were behind the destructive Immigration Act of 1965, behind commercialization of pornography, behind the corruption of societal values/Christianity via the media and academia, pushers of socialism and marxism, and so they, as a group (there are individual exceptions, of course) haven't engendered much warm feeling among those who have been the recipients of this sewage and chaos and who haven't been anesthetized by such nonsensical terms such as "judeo-christian", etc.

55 posted on 12/28/2017 4:38:32 PM PST by bkopto
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To: WatchungEagle

This reminds me of when the guy behind the little green footballs blog went nutso


56 posted on 12/28/2017 5:09:12 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: DesertRhino

keyboard spew alert


57 posted on 12/28/2017 5:51:55 PM PST by SteveH
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To: WatchungEagle

Max Who?

White Privilege My Ass...

Parasitic Pussy...


58 posted on 12/29/2017 3:42:15 AM PST by RedMonqey (“Better to die on your feet than living on your knees”)
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To: WatchungEagle
Arch-neocon and "senior fellow" at the Council on Foreign Relations Max Boot has had an epiphany.

No epiphany, he's just saying out loud what most of his fellow neoconservatives keep to themselves or express more subtly. As arch-globalists, neoconservatives have always promoted a slightly more watered-down version of the same multiculturalism and political correctness as the Democrats.

59 posted on 12/29/2017 8:05:32 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: WatchungEagle

F this ,white privledge is a lie a myth. Critical Race theory is trash and garbage. Schools have a right to teach lies, they already teach evolution. But i will never ever support CRT or BLM. F them. White privledge is a myth. I will force Boot to retract this in 2025


60 posted on 10/14/2021 1:38:09 AM PDT by jgrk112782 (cmt)
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