Re: PCR: “It's open season on ZenNazi”

[jamesd at echeque.com]

In the past year, all of the following headlines have appeared, in 
well-read publications:

	* The White Guy Problem
	* White Men Must be Stopped: The Very Future of Mankind Depends on It
	* I Don’t Know What To Do With Good White People
	* Ten Things White People Need To Stop Saying
	* Dear White People: Here’s a List of Things We’d Wish You’d Stop Doing

What is new is the direct indictment of white people as a race. This 
happened through a strange rhetorical transformation over the past few 
years. At first, “white men are our greatest threat” postings tended to 
be ironic, a way of putting the racist shoe on the other foot. They were 
meant to show that blaming an entire race for the harmful actions of a 
few individuals is senseless.

Then the tenor changed. What started as irony turned into an actual 
belief that white people, specifically white men, are more dangerous and 
immoral than any other people, and that systematic state discrimination 
against them is therefore moral, necessary, virtuous, and deserved.

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