The Myth of White Fragility

Wake up to Wokeness George Orwell was close with his book 1984, but he didn’t have the imagination of today’s Social Justice Warriors. He warned us about the danger of a totalitarian society that controlled all aspects of our lives and produced an always evolving ideology which if violated constituted a thoughtcrime. A key technique was Doublethink. The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this.[2] The Wokeness and anti-racism activists have adopted this to redefine racism. They keep the original meaning of bias and discrimination by one race against another then claim only White people can do it. 

 They have adopted Orwell’s dystopian tale as a playbook rather than a warning. White Fragility is one of their creations to implement doublethink and fight the disparate outcomes of Blacks in society by imposing discrimination against White people based on the color of their skin. Hmmmm, sounds oddly familiar and…unjust and…racist. What you’re getting here is a handbook for surviving and defeating these race grifters and jack-booted Thought Police and the limousine Liberals and skateboard Socialists who are part of their mob. And if you think you’re somehow immune, you better check because your supposed White Privilege doesn’t give you immunity from attack. Unless you have Jeff Bezos money, you are in the crosshairs. If you say or do the wrong thing in public or private, you can be cancelled from your job, your social circles, and soon enough put on trial for a hate crime. The methodology of these totalitarian wannabes of the Left is Wokeness — the condition of agreeing with whatever dogma the mob is currently obsessing about. It could be racism, or trans gender rights or climate change. But whatever it is, everyone, including you, must agree and join with them to eradicate or fundamentally transform it. Sitting politely on the sidelines is no longer an option. “Silence is Violence” is literally one of their catch phrases. Whatever the outrage du jour is, Wokeness comes with one overarching belief: America is irredeemably bad and must be remade. To be safely Woke, you must revere this single tenet regardless of all the evidence to the contrary. Ignore the fact America is far and away the freest and most prosperous place anyone of any race, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation or religion (did I skip anything? It’s tough keeping up) has ever lived. This is hardly a new thing. It is social engineering with an added twist from the folks who brought you participation trophies because everyone’s a winner.  Their new mandate is ensuring equal outcomes. They are not content to simply redistribute wealth, they want to slice and dice every segment of society to ensure it has the proper numbers, according to them, of all the approved identity groups. Karl Marx points out the necessity of this. A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirement for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that its inmate has no social position at all to maintain.[3] This can be called affirmative action or diversity but in the end it’s quotas. If the percentage of Black people in America is 13.6%, then every avenue of human endeavor better have 13.6% Black people and if not, then the people holding those slots must be pushed aside. It matters not how many Black people are actually interested in becoming say corporate tax auditors — meet the quota or pay the price. Once we start down the road of ensuring equal outcomes, totalitarian authority is the only way to achieve it. Don’t doubt for a second that massively increasing state power and control isn’t a highly desired feature of social(ist) justice. The Left wants to run our lives because they don’t like the choices we make. The Woke Mob is in full furor right now showing us a taste of what is to come if we don’t shut ‘em down. The current cause celebre is anti-racism but in the same way Antifa is an organization claiming to be anti-fascist while employing all the tactics and techniques of fascism. Anti-racism consists largely of indoctrinating White people into believing they are racist simple because they are White. Amazing really, to discriminate against an entire group of people based on the color of their skin. If only there was a word to describe that evil. Aha, there is. So, their first trick redefines racism so it no longer means beliefs and actions based on bias and prejudice against members of another race. The new racism is the unavoidable advantage for White people based on the accumulation of centuries of rule-making and system-building that generates White privilege and creates a White supremacist state damaging to Black people. This leaves all White people unable to escape the systemic racism that produces their unearned reward. Any attempt to do good works simply proves you have not accepted the inescapable nature of this insidious evil. Get used to circular reasoning and logical fallacies because they form the main framework of the ideology and methodology of White Fragility. Posit a premise with no factual basis like systemic racism, state your theology is based on its existence which is simply to be accepted, and then say refusal to accept this is proof that you suffer from the root cause, Whiteness, and benefit from the White supremacist systems in place. There is no escape except submission and even then, you are required to atone for your original sin of being born White. You must actively join in the anti-racist dismantling of this evil, which since it permeates everything, means America must be destroyed then rebuilt in the image of Wokeness. You must attempt to influence all in your orbit of friends, family, co-workers, etc. to join or be considered part of the problem — an unrepentant racist. The reason this madness is now so widespread is like all totalitarian ideologies, it is taught to the young and they become its shock troops and enforcers. The education system shifted long ago to leftist indoctrination factories. There are widespread pushes for woke young people to confront their parents and inform them that if they don’t comply, they will be forced to inform on them. The KGB and Stasi may sue them for copyright infringement of their playbooks and Mao Zedong wholeheartedly approves. Cadres are a decisive factor, once the political line is determined. Therefore, it is our fighting task to train large numbers of new cadres in a planned way.[4] The key to White Fragility is contained in the title epithet, which claims White people react poorly when informed they are unavoidably racist and questioning this is further proof of just how deep their racism runs. The fragility is revealed by their resistance to being tagged with the most powerful smear in our country today. I’m dizzy from all the circular reasoning. You will be confronted with the book White Fragility in some way — at work, through your kids schools, or from that overly-educated but underly-informed relative at a family gathering. There are now consequences in many situations for refusal to engage, even worse for those who actively oppose it. I’ve created this guide to surviving the emissaries of the Ministry of Wokeness wherever you run into them and joining the counter-revolution to defeat them. If you can’t fight them actively, you can use the explanations of their dogma and its underlying lack of anything underlying it to go along only as much as needed. If you can fight, then I’ll provide figurative hand-loaded, match-grade sniper rounds to take down its arguments and precision strike munitions to obliterate its unhealthy and unwarranted attempts to tear this country down. And best of all, we’ll get this done in one quarter the time it would take to read the drivel in White Fragility. Less if you count the multiple times you would throw it against the wall screaming “This is garbage!” while trying to read it. I took one for the team and you are the beneficiary. You owe me. Absolutely necessary disclaimer for the people who will completely misconstrue this into some support for racism. It is NOT. I abhor racism and any discrimination based on characteristics that people cannot control. I believe slavery is an egregious stain on America and the various forms of bias, discrimination and racism that have been used over the years were wrong. In the greatness of America and the system created by our Founders we have continued our pursuit of equality and opportunity for all. Institutional racism was properly outlawed decades ago and in almost every case eradicated. I also believe the America described in White Fragility does not exist as portrayed. The problems with disparate outcome for Blacks in many fields of endeavor and interaction with institutions in this country are very real and represent a priority to fix. However, the descriptions and solutions of White Fragility will not only fail to solve them, they will almost certainly make them worse. This book is a guide to surviving and defeating White Fragility and the anti-racism agenda. Before we dig all the way into that, we need to note the larger goal: This isn’t about stopping police violence, it is covert socialism disguised as social justice. Not surprising when you consider that Patrisse Cullors says she and her Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza “are trained Marxists”. One of their stated goals right on their website says,  “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.” And they certainly follow Marx's prescription for destruction of the status quo. “…this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.”[5] It’s not like the Left hasn’t been shaking the Socialism tambourine in public. Bernie Sanders was pulling down a third of the vote in 2020 Democrat primaries. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been evangelizing on the glories of the social democrat way with tremendous zeal and very little logic but she has brought many converts to the cause. They are the rising power in the Democrat party and they aren’t kidding about fundamentally transforming the United States into a socialist bleep-hole. They are all deeply hypnotized by the “no one has tried real socialism” canard. Most of them are too young and poorly over-educated to understand how it has been tried and always crashes and burns when you rely on people being willing to work harder for less, and less. Ever hopeful, they are currently designing their propaganda posters and preparing to storm the barricades for what they see as a glorious revolution. The rest of us see it as it truly is, an attempt by the least-productive sector, multi-degreed academics and the Woke Mob to destroy the goose that lays the golden eggs they are hell bent on redistributing. So, the answer is no, you can’t play socialism with your friends here. Go find some less successful country without an iron-clad Constitution that expressly forbids it and was wise enough to make sure we are armed to stop you if you get out of control. The thing to remember in all of this is Wokeness is the stealthy path to Socialism; and, Social Justice is just the Communist Manifesto + Climate Change. The most confused people in the world must be the Hong Kong democracy protesters. They’re waving American flags while risking their lives or the real possibility of torture and life in a prison camp while they see a bunch of radical activists and trustafarian rich kids burning American flags in the freest country ever on Earth. Both are literally fighting for what the other one has. The Hong Kong protesters want freedom, liberty and democracy. The shock troops of Wokeness want state control, thought police, and yes, socialism. Wouldn’t it be a wonderful Twilight Zone episode if they all Woke up in the other’s shoes? The current mayhem over police violence is just a means to an end. Once they stop crime by stopping the police from arresting people in Black communities and everyone lives happily in that Shangri La, they will move on to the rest of their demands. Most of these would be very recognizable to Vladimir Lenin or Mao Zedong and their tactics would bring a tear of joy to the eye of Josef Stalin. They start by promising to right the wrong of different outcomes between Blacks and Whites. The rub is they are not interested in what causes the difference, because according to them they already know: It’s Systemic Racism and they have a solution. Just change all the systems where Black people are at a disadvantage so they aren’t any more. Ta Da! Problem solved. That is the key to most of their cunning plan for America. Simply burn it all down and build new systems that give the equal outcome they require. The irony of fixing what they claim is racism that benefits Whites with what would be racism that benefits Blacks escapes them. Largely because for the ideologues who are running this show, the racial aspect is just the shiny penny right now. They want the absolute power to choose outcomes for all of us. Reward their friends and punish the thought criminals. Class warfare is another key component of both Socialism and Wokeness. The irony again is that many of the disparate outcomes for Blacks they hold up as proof of systemic racism are much better explained as differences of class between rich and poor. There are more poor Black people as a percentage of the population and most of the things they point out to show racism affecting Black performance are better correlated with being poor. The question then becomes, “Why are more Black people poor?” While racism is certainly a factor, there are others like dropping out of school and not living in a two-parent household which cross racial boundaries and act as predictors for being poor for everyone. Blacks do have much larger numbers who have no father in the home and who don’t complete high school and those things lead to poverty. A key point again is the Woke Mob doesn’t want to identify and fix root causes. They call that blaming the victim. They want equality of outcome and they need state power to accomplish it. But they are up against some major difficulties because of that whole equal protection under the law thing in the Constitution: the 14th Amendment[7] In more of this unending irony, the America they want to dismantle is the same America that was designed so we eventually could stop institutional racism against Black people and all other minorities. Now it gets in the way of creating equal outcomes because it’s pretty tough to pick winners and losers based on race without going afoul of equal protection, which was the whole point of having it.  The power to deliver equal outcomes is the first step down the Wokeness path to stealth Socialism. They will not stop there because people do all kinds of things with that pesky liberty that the Left does not approve of and they will strip us of it for our own good. This brings us to another key aspect of Woke socialism: They believe the Great UnWoke cannot be allowed to run their own lives. Climate hysteria was pushed out of the way as systemic racism polled better with the rioting mobs. The choice of a particular grievance doesn’t matter as long as they can get the mob rolling. But underneath, as Orwell reminded us, the image of a boot stamping on a human face — forever is waiting when they fully achieve their totalitarian dreams. They would not agree about wanting actual totalitarianism, but, there is no way to achieve their goals without it. People are not going to un-selfishly sell their SUV, remove their air-conditioning, and walk to work just because Greta Thunberg is stressed out. They would call their paradise benevolent socialism. “From each according to their ability to each according to their needs” because you are Woke and see the rightness of this, not because we are pointing the giant gun of state power at you.  And once they get that power they will use it and be loathe to give it up as Chairman Mao noted: “Don't you want to abolish state power?” Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because domestic reaction still exists, because classes still exist in our country.[8] Things will never be equal enough for the Woke mob, and if we let them have that power they'll never give it up. The Myth of White Fragility is written with the chapters split in a purposeful way. The first section, Bottom Line Up Front, gives the common-sense layman terms look at how to understand what the White Fragility cabal is up to and what it means to you. The second section, the Deep Dive, takes specific analytical aim at the claims of the book and debunks them with the context White Fragility is sorely lacking. The third section, Calls to Action, identifies substantive ways to get into and support this fight. This is still mostly an information war so much of the action will be tactics and techniques for talking about all this without stepping on any land mines. It’s vital we use the revulsion most Americans feel for the rioting, looting and destruction of our heritage to bring them to our side and consolidate enough political power to stop this. Next in the seriess we will get to the vital steps of saving free speech, our right to be an armed citizenry, fundamentally transforming our education system, ensuring Greta Thunberg and her climate goons don’t destroy our economy and countering the cultural rot that comes out of Hollywood with quality alternatives. We have a lot to do. First let’s win this battle of ideas on racism. Feel free to skip around in the denser parts of the Deep Dives to pick and choose what interests you. It is there to provide an understanding of the flaws of the book and specific points to refute them. Helpful if you want to use their own supposed facts against them. Now it’s time to ruck-up and march to the sounds of gunfire.