In the past year, all of the following headlines have appeared, in well-read publications: * The White Guy Problem * White Men Must be Stopped: The Very Future of Mankind Depends on It * I Don’t Know What To Do With Good White People * Ten Things White People Need To Stop Saying * Dear White People: Here’s a List of Things We’d Wish You’d Stop Doing What is new is the direct indictment of white people as a race. This happened through a strange rhetorical transformation over the past few years. At first, “white men are our greatest threat” postings tended to be ironic, a way of putting the racist shoe on the other foot. They were meant to show that blaming an entire race for the harmful actions of a few individuals is senseless. Then the tenor changed. What started as irony turned into an actual belief that white people, specifically white men, are more dangerous and immoral than any other people, and that systematic state discrimination against them is therefore moral, necessary, virtuous, and deserved. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus