The White Fright
13th August 2019
ZMan does some diagnosis.
The underlying assumption of the White Fright is a belief that whites are secretly organizing to overthrow the current order and impose some sort of pale patriarchy on the country. These white supremacists are everywhere and look just like normal everyday white people, so any white person could possibly be one of them. These people can, at any moment, turn into a violent spree killer, if exposed to certain kinds of content called “hate speech” which is found on-line.
Go through any evvening news cast and replace ‘white’ with ‘communist’ and you’d think it was the 1950s again. (Although I think Eisenhower was a better golfer than Trump.)