Posted on 01/13/2020 3:02:03 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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.”
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I don’t tan very easily. Will sunburn make me a person of color?
So the only way to eliminate racism is to eliminate one particular race. That in itself is not only wildly racist and genocidal, it implies a remarkably narrow and incorrect assumption that racism can only flow one way, from one race.
Whiteness = destruction of freedom and Christianity.
The core goal of the Democrat.
Justification for genocide.
they could start by reproducing.
“...historicises?????” What is that? Tell a “story” about things that aren’t true or haven’t happened, but you want them to?
The ENTIRE January 2020 edition is social justice and a screed that public health mandates implementing social justice.
White is the new black, the new inferior caste with inborn sin.
They ARE what they claim to hate.
“The savages have been wanting a war for decades.”
Smart Blacks do not want a war with whitey. They know they have no chance to win, but even if they do it means the end of their main sources of income. Beyond that they also know that within 10 years the U.S. would look like South Africa.
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Exactly.
All of this anti-white nonsense is increasingly becoming more and more naziesque.
Look up “The poisonous mushroom” for starters; there is a college that has a translated version online.
Can anyone point to anything in the past 50 years (or more) in the U. S., BEFORE we ever heard the name obozo where color played such a large role in dividing this country? Good grief - after civil rights and desegregation of schools, bussing, everything was quiet on the subject. Someone thought it would be a good idea to PLANT obozo in the WH to stir things up and stir them up indeed he did. He now gets to sit back and enjoy the mess he created...plus count the money he was given to play that role! He made the fire, poured gasoline on it and walked away. I’ll always believe he had no other purpose!!
I strongly support the same rights for all people in the country. WE must be equal before the law, in hiring, housing, job opportunities etc.
BUT there isn’t a law on the books or a moral code in the Universe that can force ethnic groups to LIKE each other. If that’s the goal of ‘stopping racism’ then it will fail. As it should.
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