That would be the last time I retreated.
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As an undergraduate in the early 2000s, I underwent a moderate but thorough attempt at politically correct indoctrination. I never fully absorbed it, partly because of my Catholic upbringing, but also because so much of it made no sense. Nonetheless, I toed the line on racism and antisemitism, accepting the idea that our differences were more about custom and economic differences, and that America was steadily moving toward an era of virtually no racism and towards a diverse multiculturalism. And I believed this was good.
At my college, every history major was required to write a senior thesis. We got to pick the specific topic, but it had to fit into a broad category selected by whichever professor was in charge of theses that semester. Maybe it was fate, because that semester, the thesis advisor was an über liberal professor who, I now realize, loved all topics anti-white. As a result, all seniors that semester would be writing about how Americans study the Third Reich.
Trying to pick a particular topic dear to the professor’s heart, I decided I would research similarities between the German National Socialists and “white supremacist” groups in America today. The professor was thrilled with my choice, and gave me many documents from her personal library, including monthly mailings from the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. This was my introduction to both organizations. It did not take me long to see that both had clear anti-white biases, which they attempted to disguise thinly and in vain. It had never really occurred to me that many minorities hated white people or that organizations that claimed to be dedicated to protecting people’s rights actively wanted to dismantle traditional American society and were explicitly anti-white. I had believed what my professors taught me about how these organizations existed to prevent discrimination. Looking at the list of people, sites, and ideas that the SPLC said were haters and hate speech, it was obvious that a very low bar had been set to qualify. I read on in amazement. ...
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