I opened Twitter recently and saw 20+ notifications. Most of the time that means the new generation of white nationalist Twitter trolls are filling my feed with racist and anti-Semitic cartoons. It was the trolls, but this was different. They were celebrating my use of the word “anti-white” in a tweet. They saw it as a victory that a “mainstream conservative” was using this term that for so long has been their calling card.
They had a point. Until recently I would have been unlikely to use
the term. Not because I didn’t believe some people harbored animosity
towards whites, but because that was a fringe attitude removed from
power, which represented little real threat. That is no longer the case.
Progressive rhetoric on race has turned an ugly corner and the
existence of “anti-white” attitudes can no longer be ignored.
In the past year, all of the following headlines have appeared, in well-read publications:
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