Reading a Jim Goad piece in Taki mag got me thinking about a genuine oddity in contemporary Western culture: The existence of minority chauvinists who tirelessly campaign either exclusively for their own people or against whites, yet instead of being cast into the same bin as white nationalists, they are feted, funded and lauded.
Take Verenice Gutierrez, an school principle and anti-white campaigner, who recently earned national attention by banning peanut butter sandwiches as discriminatory against non-whites
Portland grade-school principal Verenice Gutierrez…presides over a school whose academic performance ranks in the state’s lowest fifteen percent.
Although the school recently lost some full-time teachers due to budget cuts, the Portland school district reportedly saw fit to fork over more than a half-million dollars to indoctrinate its teachers about how “white privilege”—rather than, say, low IQs, laziness, or widespread cultural allergies to assimilating—is the culprit for low academic achievement at her school, which is only one-quarter white.
Gutierrez, whom a Portland Tribune writer described as possessing the magical power to hear “the subtle language of racism every day,” says that peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches invidiously discriminate against “Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches.” She apparently hasn’t considered that these kids may be extremely privileged by dint of the fact that they don’t live in Somalia or Mexico.
When confronted with the fact that a parent complained that Gutierrez permits a drum club at the school whose membership is open only to black and Hispanic males, she scoffed and said:
“When white people do it, it is not a problem, but if it’s for kids of color, then it’s a problem? Break it down for me. That’s your white privilege and your whiteness.”
I was unaware that American whites, especially schoolchildren, are permitted to “do it” at all, but if they did attempt to form any school-sponsored organization open exclusively to whites, it would not only be a “problem,” it’d be a headline-grabbing national scandal. Such is the state of modern “white privilege.”
…During her tenure at another Portland public school, Gutierrez was involved with a group called Future Hispanic Leaders. On a 17-minute video, she spoke of fomenting “pride of culture, pride of heritage, and pride of language” to “empower” Hispanic students to feel “that they belong with others who look just like them.”
Imagine is a white principle, in a majority white school creating whites only school clubs and calling on white students to foment price of culture, heritage and language to empower them to feel that they belong with people who look just like them?!
Heart of Darkness by Conrad, Joseph
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