White Out: "Some Ideas Are So Stupid Only Intellectuals Believe Them."

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"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.-- George Orwell

Say this. It took Christianity three centuries to take over the Roman Empire. The new religion of White Guilt has taken over Western culture in about a generation. Through government, schools and media, this cult has been made religion. And, like so many religions, there is no questioning the leap of faith required to believe.

It’s why so many whites took seriously the absurd claims of actor Jussie Smollett who fabricated a story about white men in MAGA hats assaulting him on a freezing cold Chicago street at 2 AM. Smollett knew that if he was exposed— it took over a week— he only needed to play the race card and still be embraced by guilty white liberals. 

As author Pedro Gonzalez notes, social engineering has now “conditioned white people to instantly forgive victimizers with sufficient diversity points… The end of social engineering is that it makes people act in certain ways unwittingly—they don’t know they’re doing it.”

Political conservatives have stood by during this conversion, fearful of being called racists. Thus, minorities are now forgiven their trespasses based on past oppressions. For example, sentencing guidelines in Canada require that indigenous criminals receive lighter sentences or be sent to healing circles because Sir John A. Macdonald something-something.

This produced a Catch-22 dynamic we captured in September 2017:

 Progressive: You can’t blame an undocumented young Latino for something his parents did 20 years ago.

Also Progressive: Whites can never make up for things their ancestors did 200 years ago. 

Psychologist Sam Vaknin, who studies narcissism, says that in the new dynamic victimhood identity now extends to guilty whites. “Certain people are prone to adopt victimhood as an identity. Victimhood endows their life with meaning. They would seek to be victims even in situations where they would not have been victimized otherwise. When they are not victimized, they push you to become victimized.”

The current zeitgeist in the educated white middle class is now unconscious, fashionable contrition for anything people they don’t know allegedly did to those who came out on the short end of history. Distilled, it says white people have it coming, and they know it.

Typical was the Atlanta murder of an 18-year-old white man who was gunned down by two black youths for no apparent reason in front of his girlfriend. Anger? Elijah DeWitt’s girlfriend saw the gunmen as victims. “You don’t know how those kids were raised. You know, what they were going through,” Bailey Rediling said. Elijah’s father, Craig DeWitt, did the same. “You know, we don’t know the kids. We don’t know their backgrounds. We don’t know their story. They’re forgiven from me.” 

Yes, it’s Christian charity to forgive. But what about the individual agency of the shooters? To Woke whites that’s a now distraction. The shooters were victims! And should you think otherwise you’re a racist. Progressives are seemingly one of the few factions who remain in denial about America’s social advancement over the past half-century.

Actor Tim Robbins has seen the virtue and the damage done in recent years. “There’s so much empowerment of people that feel that they are being incredibly virtuous and generous, yet are doing things that are not very kind to other people,” he told Matt Taibbi. .

The media campaigns tell the evolution of this transition. In Canada it’s the Rez School graves. In America it’s the tragedy of black slavery. In the UK it’s the subjugation of brown peoples around the world. 

Ostensibly this retroactive guilt was to benefit those oppressed in your grandaddy’s day. Equating all social ills with the tainted white race etc. That’s what was advertised in liberal stump speeches for the Great Society when the Left went from the party of Jim Crow to the party of Jussie Smollett.

It did produce some guilt money to current black and indigenous and LGBTQ communities. A literal get-out-of-jail-free card. A liberal media so craven you can shoot them, and they can be sued for stopping your bullets. The political and financial strip-mining of white liberal guilt for fun and profit. 

While demonstrating to the Rob Reiner Brigade that sufficient remorse allows them to punish their fellow whites who aren’t in on the hustle. As we wrote in 2017: “The high priests of this guilt told their white adherents they were unworthy to judge, disqualified them from feeling pride in culture. Power was instead ceded to anyone who had a gripe from “micro-aggressions” to occupying too much of a bus seat. Rending your $50K garment at the Oscars became the sanctifying moment of your guilty white existence.” 

But the real benefit of the new religion has not been to the “victims” since the Democrats dumped their Dixiecrat past in favour of a more contemporary Massa’. No integration of communities for minorities. No holidays on Hyannisport. No mercy from Planned Parenthood’s eugenic past. The same urban blight.

Vaknin says of blacks, like Smollett, being constantly told they’re victims, “It’s very dangerous, because if you are a perennial victim and this is your identity, you would tend to develop attendant behaviours, for example, you would feel entitled to special treatment, and if you don’t get this special treatment you will become aggressive.”

White liberals don’t care. They can hold two thoughts in mind at the same time. Maintain the gated communities and leafy suburbs as befits their sensitivity. While forcing fellow whites to bear the burdens of the chaos they cause with defunding police, opening the border or robbing citizens of the right to protect themselves. 

Ah, the blank canvas of a contented mind. Nowhere is the contrition of guilty whites more exploited than in the sudden representation of mixed-race or gay couples in advertising (as we covered in April). Corporations wedded to ESG present white liberals with the racial version of the West Wing:  a progressive nirvana to instruct the white majority in Good Think. Heaven help those who resist.

As Orwell said, “ Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." He must have had MSNBC/ CBC in mind.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft YearsIn NHL History, , his new book with his son Evan, was voted the eighth best professional hockey book of by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted seventh best, and is available via http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx