When, in the Winter 1967 issue of Partisan Review, Susan Sontag told us that “The white race is the cancer of human history,” she had lit such a candle as, it seems 52 years later, will never be put out.
Anti-whiteness is now a sturdy pillar of state ideology throughout the Anglosphere. Solemn conferences are convened at which scholars discuss the evils of whiteness. (This year’s White Privilege Conference, held in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last month, was the 20th in its series. More than a thousand people attended). A Google search on the phrase “unbearable whiteness” returned nearly 60,000 hits, most of them non-ironic.
The fundamentals of anti-whiteness are now taught to third-graders. Our universities hold no-whites-allowed meetings for faculty and staff to promote “inclusivity.” “Offense archeologists” trawl through social-media archives seeking violations of anti-white orthodoxy; violators are promptly punished by dismissal and ostracism. ...
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