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I’d quibble with the word “genocide”, but I do think this relentless anti-whiteness (not just the ridiculous idea that, especially by 2022, there remains an all-encompassing, ubiquitous conspiracy of culturally-constructed whiteness as a means of domination, which somehow wildly advantages literally all white people, while dehumanizing, marginalizing, oppressing all non-white people, but an actual open, sometimes giddy hatred toward all human beings born with a certain complexion) is itself incredibly racist and hypocritical. No one claims we must force Japan or Korea to “diversify” (meaning proportionally far, far fewer of those pesky “overachieving” Asians in their own countries - why can’t inherently much more noble black and brown people (bodies?!) benefit from a planned, heavily funded relentless mass illegal immigration and redistribution of all those countries have built and accomplished? No one claims this about anywhere else than Western countries with majority Caucasian populations. There used to be these fairly ridiculous bumper stickers you’d very occasionally see (or see reported about) which, taking off on a conservation campaign slogan, said something like “Save the White Males”. I used to think this was utterly deluded and paranoid - half-baked reactionary victimology that denied most population statistics about how most white American men were still doing in relation to most other populations. That was about thirty years ago. As silly as that slogan sounds it also now sounds prescient. The open demonization, the schadenfreude, the almost sadistic mockery that’s so celebrated across our culture now toward white Americans and especially men who actually have had the fewest advantages, whose life expectancy is declining, who are suffering more and more suicides and overdoes and other deaths of despair. But it’s not a coincidence or really even ironic that it’s the least advantaged white people who are being mocked, in some ways almost persecuted for being. It’s part and parcel of the disappearance of class and any concept of transracial working class solidarity from most of the left. Those who derive so much enjoyment and attract so much praise for hating more downtrodden white people gladly worship and aspire to ascending to join the cliques of wealth and power of some of the cruelest, most callous white elites who do things like posting BLM™️ logos and mission statements while sending usurious, trap-laden credit card offers en masse to poor and working poor black households.

Things are getting pretty ugly for the white Americans who never had many resources, connections, or privileges to speak of, and who are aging and becoming more vulnerable as societal hatred and scapegoating toward them grows and intensifies. This has begun to happen much sooner than one might have predicted based on demographics, not only because of the funded, organized mass illegal immigration that’s so privileged by the Democratic Party as long as the immigrants aren’t white, and not only because of the explosion of toxic, hateful pseudo-academic racial caste politics from universities into positions of power of across society. It’s happened while white Americans are still a fairly large if aging majority, because white elites who have far more power, connections, resources than they’ll ever need to buffer themselves and their offspring for generations, have placed their bets on elevating themselves and extirpating any actual guilt or responsibility they may have for ill-gotten gains, by performatively pretending to prostrate themselves - such communal narcissism - while actually transferring the hatred, contempt, and blame and enforcing a real marginalization in resources and standing and even basic human dignity on the white people who never had their advantages and in most cases never benefited from hurting or exploiting others. I’ve never seen such hatred and contempt and mockery toward one’s fellow citizens. But America’s white elites have bene done with the shared rights and responsibilities of citizenship for a while. They instead associate with other global elites and like to symbolically associate themselves with what our culture considers trendier more righteous and noble identities.

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