A short time ago I was sitting in the corner of one of
those cafes now found across the urban landscape. You
know the type of place I'm talking about. You earn
points by denouncing Starbucks, while consuming goods
of a higher moral order.
Yuppies on the make mingle with dogma-spouting
leftists, and libertarians hand off the soy milk to
dreadlocked vegan anarchists.
On this particular morning, I was enjoying my
fair-trade cup of coffee when I overheard a couple of
young ladies at the table next to me carrying on a
conversation about "white trash." They were not
exactly shouting, but they certainly weren't trying to
conceal their opinions either, so I took up Morris
Dees's admonition to confront hate speech wherever one
finds it, and decided to ask them what exactly the
term "white trash" meant.
Both gave me the look that French peasants must
have known when they addressed the aristocracy, for
they now appeared like they had been weaning on a sour
pickle for the last hour. Still, they obliged in
answering my question when they realized I was
serious. What came out of their mouths were words to
the effect that "white trash" referred to those white
individuals who were stupid, unsophisticated,
ignorant, poor, and perhaps unworldly.
I told them that I thought that that was a fair
description, and just as they were turning away from
me, I asked them if they knew or thought there might
exist any black, Latino, Asian or Native American
individuals who might embody the adjectives of stupid,
unsophisticated, ignorant, poor or unworldly.
That smug look of conceit so often seen on the
faces of the enlightened formed on theirs as they
exhaled an exasperated sigh and responded in the
affirmative.
"Interesting," I said. "Do you ever refer to
them as black trash, Latino trash, Asian trash, Native
American trash, or an equally derogatory term?"
By now their smugness had been replaced by
hostility, as one of them replied, "No, we wouldn't
even think of talking about those people in such a
way."
I thanked them for their honesty, went back to my
coffee and the latest edition of the local
"alternative" newspaper. However, I couldn't forget
the inherent perversity of the conversation I had just
had.
In a society where pride and even chauvinism is
actively encouraged in many nonwhite communities, the
idea of someone challenging the anti-white hate speech
I had just heard must have seemed strange indeed.
In a world where female circumcision is being
imported to France, honor killings are now taking
place in Scandinavia, witches are still being burned
in sub-Saharan Africa, and women are not allowed to
drive a car -- much less vote -- in much of the Islamic
world, these women saw fit to denigrate poor whites
probably one paycheck away from living on the street.
Pretty enlightened.
Yet these bright and probably otherwise decent
young ladies were not raised in a vacuum. They are in
fact the products of a cultural and political
environment that actively promotes white
self-loathing.
In all likelihood, from an early age they were
treated to guilt-inducing stories of Martin Luther
King and Selma, Alabama; Malcolm X and Rosa Parks.
Because of media self-censorship, when they see a
public service announcement regarding domestic
violence, they see a white male abuser. When a
home-security-system manufacturer advertises on
television, you can be sure that the burglar or home
invader is white.
Further, if they work for a large corporation or
government agency, it is a safe bet that they attended
diversity seminars and multi-cultural workshops, where
the posters on the wall will serve up such
contradictory dogma as "Let's Celebrate Our
Differences" and "We're all the Same."
Should they have attended college, they will have
passed through an academic environment largely
dedicated to the deconstruction of Western
Civilization and the denigration of whites. The
sociology department will offer polemics regarding the
evils of privileged white male, heterosexist,
patriarchal, racist, non-transgendered,
neo-colonialist imperialism and oppression.
Consequently, it is completely understandable
that we now live in a world where it is acceptable --
even fashionable -- to describe a whole group of human
beings as "trash" and expect no challenge from any
quarter, while viewing as abominable any identical
sentiments applied to nonwhites.
Pavlov had his bells and lights; the current
establishment shapes perceptions from within the ivory
towers. Thus, while two of the cornerstones of
critical thinking are the questioning of basic
assumptions and the rejection of ideological dogma, it
is considered dubious -- even suspect -- to question
these tendencies when applied towards whites.
In the cultural conflicts taking place in the
West today, those who would destroy a civilization
must first denigrate it. This is one of the broadest
lessons of history. If readers believe this view
tends toward hyperbole, imagine the popular or
individual reaction if the maligned group were "black
trash."
It should come as no surprise then that as the
fires of cultural entitlement and racial resentment
continue to be skillfully stoked by moral
exhibitionists within the academic and media
establishment, the voices of anti-white hatred will
only grow stronger.
Those indoctrinated ladies -- whether they knew it
or not -- were among the first casualties of a conflict
well under way.
David A. White is an independent writer living in
Montpelier, Vermont. He welcomes your comments at
xlt486@yahoo.com
