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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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Arch-neocon and "senior fellow" at the Council on Foreign Relations Max Boot has had an epiphany.
1 posted on 12/28/2017 2:02:15 PM PST by WatchungEagle
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To: WatchungEagle

2017 was the year Max Boot confirmed what everyone already knew: Max Boot is a ****-for-brains Cuck.


2 posted on 12/28/2017 2:04:40 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: WatchungEagle

2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege

2027 Was the Year I Learned About My Black Privilege


3 posted on 12/28/2017 2:05:51 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: WatchungEagle

“As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union . . .”

I urge you to take your attitude of ingratitude back there or elsewhere, say Cuba, Pakistan or Venezuela


4 posted on 12/28/2017 2:06:19 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Another Islamic terrorist event, and no “outrage” from the “Muslim community”. Again)
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To: WatchungEagle

Doesn’t come up. Is this serious or satire?


5 posted on 12/28/2017 2:06:23 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: WatchungEagle

Can someone please explain how I can get my White Privilege? I wasn’t there when they were passing it out.


6 posted on 12/28/2017 2:07:43 PM PST by PTBAA
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Arch-neocon and "senior fellow" at the Council on Foreign Relations Max Boot has had an epiphany.

Hardly an epiphany. More of an upgrade to a larger size of douchebag. He falls for the left-wing rhetoric hook, line and sinker.

7 posted on 12/28/2017 2:09:16 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: MuttTheHoople

The link works for me. It’s serious.


8 posted on 12/28/2017 2:09:57 PM PST by WatchungEagle
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The larger problem of racism in our society was made evident in Donald Trump’s election, despite — or because of — his willingness to dog-whistle toward white nationalists with his pervasive bashing of Mexicans, Muslims, and other minorities.

Drink.

9 posted on 12/28/2017 2:10:01 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: WatchungEagle

When he gives up his job to a woman or lgbtwhatever of color, I will believe him.


10 posted on 12/28/2017 2:11:19 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: WatchungEagle

Garbage !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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11 posted on 12/28/2017 2:12:30 PM PST by Mears
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Setting himself on fire in self immolation in the public square in 3, 2, 1 .............?


12 posted on 12/28/2017 2:14:05 PM PST by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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“ My ancestors . . . .were more likely victims of the pogroms”

Wait, Max. You mean the liberations provided by the heroism and death of those evil, white Christian, heterosexual young men that you now so despise? You know, the ones disproportionately with little education,from small towns, rural America. Who would have voted for a patriot like Trump in a Berkeley minute?

Those MALES, Max?

PS. I’d punch your Fn lights out if I ever met you face to face. You ungrateful SOB. FU


13 posted on 12/28/2017 2:16:50 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Another Islamic terrorist event, and no “outrage” from the “Muslim community”. Again)
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To: WatchungEagle

Thanks for delivering Garbage, But I’ll Pass, you can have all to yourself....


14 posted on 12/28/2017 2:17:52 PM PST by heights
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2017 was the year racists came out of the closet, and the Left once again cheered racism.


15 posted on 12/28/2017 2:18:53 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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Adam Serwer argues persuasively in the Atlantic that Trump’s election could not be explained by “economic anxiety,” because the poorest voters — those making less than $50,000 a year — voted predominantly for Hillary Clinton.

And what is buried in that statistic? How many are urban blacks on welfare? And poor single moms? That is the natural Dem constituency.

Now, how about a man making $32K a year in a rust belt manufacturing job in danger of being sent to China or Mexico? Those were the key swing votes for Trump. Trump figured out how to pry them out of the Dem plantation. And Boot falls for this liberal bilge hook, line and sinker.

16 posted on 12/28/2017 2:20:18 PM PST by dirtboy
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LOL...I kind of think the same thing when I see these...


17 posted on 12/28/2017 2:21:38 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: PTBAA

“Can someone please explain how I can get my White Privilege?”

My sister got her White Privilege at the Mercedes dealership. She got a white Mercedes SUV and named it “WP”, for you-know-what.


18 posted on 12/28/2017 2:21:54 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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Ten bucks says that 2017 was also the year that Max discovered his real sexuality down at one of those funky bath houses in San Francisco...


19 posted on 12/28/2017 2:22:33 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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To: WatchungEagle

/eyeroll


20 posted on 12/28/2017 2:23:38 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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