Posted on 01/12/2020 1:26:00 PM PST by blam
The once prestigious Lancet medical journal has published a bizarre book review asserting that “white Americans continue to mobilise to maintain or extend the exclusive advantages whiteness offers those who can become white.”
The Lancet selected Rhea W. Boyd, a Minority Health Policy Fellow at Harvard’s School of Public Health, to review a 2019 book called Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl, whose thesis is that “right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences — even for the white voters they promise to help.”
In his book, Metzl argues that white mortality is up in the United States ever since the 2016 election of Donald Trump, since in order to “maintain an imagined place atop a racial hierarchy,” white Americans who harbor “racial resentment” support policies that seem to limit the freedoms or resources available to non-whites, even though such decisions threaten their own wellbeing as well.
“From expansive gun legislation to broad divestment in government programmes, Metzl characterises white liberties that endanger white lives or imperil white futures as ‘dying of whiteness,’” Boyd observes.
While in her review Boyd fundamentally agrees with Metzl’s contentions, she believes that he is too soft on whites by attributing whites’ self-destructive white political actions to “racial resentment,” which “erases white agency through emotional euphemism.”
“At times, Metzl artfully articulates and historicises the racist origins of white interest in firearm fanaticism and ‘small government’ politics,” Boyd writes. “At others, he turns to ‘racial anxieties,’ racially charged ‘fears,’ or ‘racial resentment’ to describe white people’s political investment in white racial dominance.”
Boyd decries the “common practice” of mis-attributing “white self-destruction and violence to psychological states” or obscuring “the impacts of defending whiteness through emotional euphemisms.”
Drivers of white mortality such as suicide, chronic liver disease, and drug and alcohol poisoning have been described as...
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Or, eliminate Lancet and the America destroying diversity quest that is a plague on our society
Strong. the irony is, with this one.
The first one to bring up race is the racist.
That remark alone is exceedingly racist and pin-headed.
Most of the people dying in the socialist controlled murder capitals around the country certainly aren’t white.
What could possibly account for that?
“...Or, eliminate Lancet and the America destroying diversity quest that is a plague on our society...”
That would be the sane thing to do...
Get rid of the whites, you darkie racists. Then tell me how you get along with the Chinese! /S
I am so tired of hearing racist. It just makes me sick. If you grew up in the 1950 era, there was racist. Now, lets see it does not matter the skin type you live in the same community, play on the same football, baseball team, getting paid for the same job, etc. The people that are crying racist are the people that are splitting everyone apart. I just wish this insanity would stop!
It’s Ok to be white.
Don’t get rid of any people. Do get rid of statistics based on race, except for medical where there are clear differences. Keeping stats based on race is not helpful except to the race grievance industry.
How can liberals be so oblivious to hypocrisy?
white privilege card + white supremecy card + victim card + oppression card = leftardloonism excuse to gain the unearned, the undeserved, and something for nothing
back in the 19th century the saying was the good indian was a dead indian.
looks like they have worked that formula for whites today.
More white priviledge espousing that blacks are magical and pure and racism only occurs in ONE race.
Wanna get rid of racism? Find ways of incorporating minorities into the larger society.
Democrats spent the better part of the last 150 years keeping black people away from the cultural norm, first by draconian laws, and then by paying them to stay away.
A multicultural society is doomed to failure. There needs to be one culture. The American culture has proved to be superior to any that have come before. Everyone here needs to be a part of it.
the democrat party in the last 70 years has moved from being a white racist party to being a black racist party.
Advocate genocide....okie dokie, that was simple. /s
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