Is identity for whites inevitable?

The University of Wisconsin, Madison is offering a course in the spring semester entitled “The Problem of Whiteness,” which aims to ask “what an ethical white identity entails, what it means to be #woke, and consider the journal Race Traitor’s motto, ‘treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.’”


The syllabus for the course, which will be offered by the University of Wisconsin’s African Cultural Studies department during the upcoming spring semester, claims that students will be asked to consider “what it really means to be white.”


In an interview with the online conservative campus watchdog site The College Fixthe course’s instructor explained that the course was designed to force white students to consider what it means to be white. “Whites rarely or never questioned what it is to be white,” Assistant Professor Damon Sajnani said. “So you go through life taking it for granted without ever questioning or critically interrogating it.”


Sajnani went on to claim that he wants his students to understand that race isn’t a biological or cultural construct, but rather a political and social construct. He claims that because of racial oppression, African-Americans are constantly forced to consider what it means to be black and whites typically don’t think what it means to be white.


Sajnani told The College Fix that he is a far-left instructor who views both the Republican and Democratic parties as instruments of the American right-wing.


And people wonder why there’s currently growing strength in the white nationalist movement…


This is why Trump won the election. The real swing vote in the U.S. isn’t any particular state. It’s white people. The same people who voted for Obama, some of them twice, are now being told that their whiteness is what’s wrong with society today.


Whites… who went to war and lost 620,000 young men to end slavery in the U.S. Civil War. Whites… who went to war and lost 100,000 young men in World War I in Europe. Whites… who went to war and lost 400,000 young men to stop Fascism. Whites… who ousted the British twice to make sure the American colonies remained free. Whites… who were enslaved alongside the blacks. But that’s not on the uni curriculum. Whites… who have given minorities beyond their fair share of generosity to atone for their ancestors sins. In other words, whites today are giving reparations to other ethnic groups that they’ve never harmed and fought and died for minorities who now hate them.


Their gratitude is overwhelming.


My question is… with the white birthrate dramatically on the decline, do the whites taking this course actually believe that once whites are a minority that this treatment will stop? That they’ll earn respect of other ethnic groups because they’re no longer a majority? That the growing hatred for whites will suddenly be healed? If you’re white, others won’t care if you feel for the plight of minorities. Your whiteness will make you complicit with the crimes of ancestors you have nothing to do with. If I recall correctly, the Nazis that the left love to refer to didn’t care if someone was only half Jewish.


 


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