For Some Insane Reason, Tribalism Is Okay Unless You're White
The taboo conservatives refuse to confront
The taboo conservatives refuse to confront
(Auron MacIntyre, The Blaze) - Ethnocentrism thrives because the system rewards it — except for the group told to compete on pure merit.
There has been a lot of panic, among the conservative commentariat especially, over the growing desire among younger white Americans to receive representation as a collective political bloc. At some level, that reaction is understandable. Race is not the healthiest fixation when it comes to identity.
But the way conservatives have responded to this trend is deeply misguided.
The only way to lower the salience of race is to stop importing ethnocentric cultures and to eliminate political carve-outs for minority communities already here.
For decades, whites have watched every other group in America successfully demand political action as a bloc from both the left and the right. Democrats build their entire coalition around racial grievance, but even conservatives regularly address the needs of minority communities as collective groups. Despite their hostility to “identity politics,” Republicans eagerly cater to it — just not for their core constituency, white Americans.
If conservatives genuinely worry about the rise of white identitarianism, they should stop lecturing young white Americans and start addressing the…
Thank you for taking a look at this issue from a different direction than the ones most often taken. We should know that when legitimate feelings and/or beliefs are suppressed, they often emerge stronger than they were in the first place -- and in an uglier composition.