The Unbearable Whiteness of Jews
16th February 2022
For the last half-century or more, Democrats have jealously guarded and taken advantage of their Great Society political coalition, trading in the white working class that was once its primary base of support in favor of those who felt—or could be made to feel—as if they are marginalized racially. Even before the advent of the social media-fueled woke world, Democrats saw advantage in heightening racial strife and grievance. But, over the last decade and a half, the Left’s toxic racial politics swallowed American life whole.
With America’s most important cultural power centers now fully digested by woke racialism, the act of making otherwise normal observations about life and reality itself is greeted with hysteria and demands of stake-burning. The ever-present catch-all villains from the last century, Nazis and Fascists, are conjured ubiquitously. Their invocation has at this point no real connection to historical reality—as Orwell already observed in 1946, words like “Fascist” quickly become mere stand-ins for “bad” and “evil,” or, in our day, “racist,” and “hateful.” Because everyone occasionally needs a rhetorical change of scenery, the Left has recently sprinkled in a few other calorie-free buzzwords, such “anti-democratic” and “authoritarian.”