New York Times: "Whiteness is a moral problem"

This article argues that whiteness is an abstract; there is no positive commonality between whites, but strangely, the author does not make this claim with regards to any other group. I'm sure we could agree, to an extent, that the homogenizing term "white" fails to account for the diversity of light-pigmented individuals. Slavs are different from Israelis who are different from Highland Scots who are different from South Africans who are different from Sicilians... But where her argument breaks down and her pernicious ideology shows its face is that she argues what binds individuals to "whiteness" is unjustly or unfairly acquired power, which is fucking ridiculous. To argue that contra Blacks and Asians, etc., whites are only unified by their imperial cruelty is ridiculous, especially if you have the slightest understanding of North American and European history. The Irish family in New York, descendants of people who escaped occupation and famine to be drafted into a Civil War, and then returned to a city that treated them like garbage because of their Catholicism is somehow advantaged by their pigmentation?

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