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| 2014-12-10 | |
There's a saying that the surest way to go crazy is to keep the company of the insane. Glenn Reynolds links to an account of a male gender studies [1] graduate telling every stranger he could find at a party to admit their "privilege". The man who may or may not have been invited, "moved throughout the party, unleashing the fundamental concepts of his undergraduate major at every opportunity. ‘It was kind of weird to get lectured about the patriarchy by, y'know, a member of the patriarchy,' one victim commented. ‘He called me an Uncle Tom for wearing bras.'"
Recently there were two dueling articles in the Israeli press. The first, wrote Benjy Cannon of J Street, argued that Jewishness [2] could not excuse the crime of "whiteness". "While I do not often think, write about, or actively engage with my whiteness, it is an omnipresent force in my life". This was challenged by Hila Hershkovitz [3] in the Times of Israel, who asserts "Ashkenazi Jews are not white" or at least there was a time when real white people, guys with names like Himmler, didn't think so. She has a point. Things are no longer what they seem. Ward Churchill is Native American, as is Elizabeth Warren. Nikki Haley is definitely not white, even though she's checked the box. And the whitest man in America, though he may not look it, is George Zimmerman. | |
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