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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You’re right, the left has made damn sure to treat whites as blacks were treated 60 years ago. Some racist blacks even think it’s a step in the right direction because they believe that racism will only stop when whites are on the receiving end, when what it really does is expose the left’s double standards.
Colleges are the head of the communist snake. The head needs to be removed.
Sure, honey, we’ll sit down and discuss the elimination of whiteness in society. But first, bring me a sammich, bitch.
Hutus versus Tutsis.
Somebody got to die.
Yeah, I know he’s a kneegrow.
pronoun offense intentional.
Harvard, for centuries oh so white and privileged. Then “Red and Traitorous”. Now “diversity uber alles”. What next, a statue of Sanger and Hitler arm-in-arm on the main quad? Logical, said Mr. Spock. Logical.
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