The War on the West

by Douglas Murray

The first way to answer it is to try to take the path that Rufo tried to take. That is to say—basically, I do not want to see color. I do not want to see people primarily through the prism of their skin pigmentation. I think that skin color is essentially uninteresting and unimportant, and we should leave it at that. This is a perfectly respectable answer to give, and it is about the only answer that is survivable if asked such a question in any public forum today. The second way to answer it would be to step a little further along the same road as that: which is to say that effectively what is described as “white culture” is in fact no more than a part of a universal culture. And that whereas some black people and people of other races might decide to cut themselves off from allowing other people to join their party, white people should take a different route. That what is called “whiteness” is something that can be open to all people. And that whereas the traditions and cultural norms of black Americans may try to be kept back solely for the enjoyment of other black people, white culture should not be identified in such a way and should almost be a synonym for something that is open to all. So in an era that