Actress Rosanna Arquette Is Sorry She’s White: “It Disgusts Me”

Rosanna Arquette, actress, and #MeToo activist is a member of a Hollywood family that frequently gets political. This week she announced her disgust with her own skin color. She literally took old-school liberal white guilt to a whole new level.

Wednesday Arquette tweeted: “I’m sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame.” I would include her tweet here but alas, the actress has “protected” her account, which means only approved followers can see her tweets. She was advised to do so by the FBI, according to her representative. She has more than 89,000 followers.

Her apology for her skin color came after she posted three hours earlier that President Trump incites racial violence. “The president of the United States of America incites racist violence. The end.” Maybe her “disgust” with her whiteness comes from being the same race as the president.

Rosanna’s Twitter profile states that she is a “mother, activist, actor director ..producer. resisting fascism on a daily basis. silence is complicity.” I had no idea that her world is so fascist that she has to fight it every single day. It is some rarified air that she is breathing on the West Coast to think she advances any discussion on race relations or “white privilege” by tweeting out something so non-productive as her shame of being a white person. All she does is sound ungrateful for her life. She had nothing to do with being born and can do nothing about the color of her skin. The 59-year-old woman’s parents are both deceased, so they are spared this nonsense, though they might have found her words normal. Her father Lewis Arquette was a film actor, writer, and producer.

As I mentioned earlier, political activism runs in her family. Rosanna describes her upbringing as “artistic, musical and left-wing.” Her parents were left-wing activists and her mother was big into protesting the Vietnam war back in the day. Rosanna embraces her reputation as a “troublemaker” and is quick to describe her industry as misogynistic. She has been a leader in the #MeToo movement and cited her own abuse at the hands of Harvey Weinstein.

Rosanna’s younger sister, Patricia made headlines earlier this year as she accepted a SAG award in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series category for her performance in the movie Escape at Dannemora. Patricia turned an otherwise politics-free awards show into one that included her random mention of Robert Mueller. A politics-free awards show is rare these days. I know this because I cover most of them for Newsbusters and I covered this one, too. The younger Arquette almost forgot to include her selfish political thought and then she said, “Oh, thank you, Robert Mueller and everyone working to make sure that we have sovereignty for the United States of America.” This is how the sisters talk. They aren’t real deep thinkers but they don’t hesitate to deliver a hot take or two.

Wednesday must have been a busy day for Rosanna’s triggered feelings. She also tweeted that “Antifa is not a hate group.” I don’t think the victims of the violent leftists in Antifa have the same opinion. Perhaps she should watch an interview with Andy Ngo, for example.

Rosanna Arquette is an accomplished actress. Her movie credits include Pulp Fiction, The Big Blue, The Whole Nine Yards, and Desperately Seeking Susan. It seems petty and a waste of time to sound off about her disgust with being white when there is nothing she can do about that and the trope that white people are at the root of all evil is just lame, frankly. That’s the best she’s got?

The problems with this line of thinking:

* It conflates race with class privilege.

Biden made this mistake in his recent gaffe, that poor kids are as smart as white kids. Denying that there are poor whites, denying there are rich blacks, and ignoring that CLASS has far more impact on your life than RACE.

* It lets upper class whites renounce privilege without doing anything about it.

If you say your sin is being born white, you don’t have to give up wealth and power to make it fair.

* It lets liberal whites hate on poor whites.

When you say all whites are privileged, elite whites can openly mock poor whites and call for everyone else to do the same. After all, how stupid and backward do you have to be to fail as a privileged white?

* It actually validates the tiny fraction of racists by saying yes, everyone agrees with you.

Harder to fight that ideology when you just said yeah, there are millions of them.

* It pushes many to those extremes.

It alienates many moderates who are being smeared as members of the racist fringe. And can lead to some identifying with those groups.

* It creates new victims in the name of fairness.

It proves that whites are being systematically oppressed, when those in power can publicly shame you for your race or sex. Making matters worse, they oppress you based on collective guilt and mere demographics. That we have to send just the whites to diversity training where they bash all men as sexist, all whites as racist. If it is a mixed group, you may be asked to apologize for the sin of existing. Marianne William’s church prayer was exactly that.

* It discourages anyone from trying to cross the divide you’re deepening.

“Even if you’re a good person, we know you’re secretly guilty of evil, so good isn’t an excuse”. OK, if I’m just going to fail or be shamed for trying, why try?

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