>>>If the administration is not careful, millions of Americans are going to begin feeling that they are caricatured pretty much as those once were in rural Pennsylvania.<<<
Those of us who spent most of our adult life working in the media and academia having been feeling this for decades. In fact, let me do a little Sotomayor right here and use my own ethnic background - Russian Jew - as a filter through which I see these attitudes about race and ethnicity.
White Christian men are the Jews of multicultural America. White Christian men are accused of all sorts of crimes, both real and imagined, and the worst accusation against them is that they have attained wealth, power, and prestige using the labor and property of their neighbors. The multicultural left has stereotyped the white male using the same kind of libel and myth that central and eastern Europeans used against the Jews.
Just like the Jews were accused of all sorts of perversions and conspiracies, white men are accused of a foggy “patriarchy” and portrayed in the media as killers, highly-placed psychopaths, or dunces.
This accounts for the slavering stories, repeated since the 1980s, that someday “whites” will be a minority in the United States. It’s a timeline set by the multicultural left which informs them when they can finally take their hatred to their final solution.
Like Orwell pointed out, the left always needs an enemy. Tell a person for their entire lives that white men have stolen their land, property, prosperity, and ability to succeed, and it’s no surprise you get twisted race hatred from some of those people, and some of those people achieve positions of power. As Rush is saying right now, these people are angry - at those who don’t look like themselves.
God help my son, whose Italian-Jewish ancestry makes him a target for their hatred.
excellent post - you put a vague feeling I’ve had for awhile into concrete words.
I’ve got 4 white boys I’m raising and I’m determined they should not feel guilty and ashamed just for being born.
God help all our children.