Slate author Rachel Withers says the Christchurch Shootings Should Implicate All White Australians.
Who is responsible for the terrorist attack that killed at least 50 New Zealanders as they prayed in their mosques? Looked at one way, the answer is simple: The shooter alone bears the guilt for his crimes. But the picture is wider than that.
In the days since the attack, attention has rightly been focused on the shooter’s admiration of white supremacists, especially violent ones like Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, whom the shooter called his “true inspiration” and who allegedly gave his “blessing” for the attack. His manifesto called Donald Trump “a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose,” and uses words that directly echo Trump’s own. The discussion can even be expanded to those who have helped shape the U.S. president’s message, like Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, and Donald Trump Jr. It’s not unreasonable to place some measure of blame on those who have stoked the international spread of white-supremacist ideology.
So why do I feel so guilty? And why am I so angry not just at the obvious targets, but at my country?
I’m a white Australian. I know that blaming myself and my cohort is illogical, but I can’t escape the feeling that all of white Australia is implicated in the deaths—a white majority that has fomented and let foment hate.
Illogical Nonsense
Blaming innocent bystanders is of course illogical. Worse than that, such talk is counterproductive and perhaps extremely so.
In this era of college protective zones where one cannot say or do anything that might have the slightest negative implications, some whites are no doubt angry over the illogical coddling of anything and everything.
If someone with male body parts says they are a woman, then they are, even before an operation.
The Washington Post notes that you can be fined for not calling people ‘ze’ or ‘hir,’ if that’s the pronoun they demand that you use.
Anything you say, do, or think is likely to offend someone, and such demands do nothing but offend some whites who now feel oppressed.
Sensitivity Debate
How about a law that says it’s illegal to hurt someone feelings?
That’s how stupid this sensitivity debate has become.
I am white. I offer no apologies for that. My mom’s best friend was black. Neither of my parents ever made racial slurs or comments.
But in the eyes of Rachel Withers (is it Ze Rachel, We Ratchel, or It Rachel) all whites are to blame for this.
Withers comments “You might think that this is all too strong, that placing at least some of the blame on white Australia is a kind of self-centered masochism, that blaming a nation’s culture for the sins of a citizen is like blaming humanity for the crimes of one man.”
Yes, I do.
To some, the white majority is no doubt responsible for ISIS, pollution in China that kills hundreds of thousand of people a year, Japanese xenophobia, pestilence, and killer bees.
Did I leave anything out? If so, it must be because I am white.
Apologies not offered.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
People who cannot innovate, or cannot provide a product or service, find it a lot easier to villify those who can than to look in the mirror and admit the problem is not govt, or capitalists, but themselves. “White people and white priveldge” is now the scapegoat. I had to work a full time job while I was attending college. I grew up in a one bedroom apartment with no father. I am still waiting for my white priveldge. If anyone can show me where to find white privledge, or who is providing it, please tell me. Id like to take advantage of being born white, so please tell me where this service is being offered 😅
Any one know if these dingbats are hatched or born?
They’re reared. Creatures of all totalitarian states. Always eager to show Massa how they are first in line, at rallies cheering for whatever Massa says is the right thing to believe in at any given time.
This bimbo is no different from the Tehran trashies who did their best to out-whore their fellow sluts in the West, under Pahlavi, when “being western” was celebrated by the regime. And then were first in line to harass other women, for showing a lock of hair, once the Mullahs took over. Nothing but utterly despicable government aggrandizing garbage through and through; every single one of them.
She left out climate change. In reality the chain of causation goes like this: all whites are responsible for climate change, and climate change made him do it (his manifesto does mention that he sees himself as an “eco-fascist”).
Dumb, well indoctrinated, hysterical, screeching bimbos (and the rest of pliant indoctrinati) notwithstanding: In practical reality, the ones to blame in all such shootings, are the saps who have let themselves indoctrinate so far into pliant uselessness, that they aren’t shooting back. Color and creed has nothing to do with it.
But affirmative action and reparations are sensible?
Of course not. Nothing that requires government is.
“Illogical Nonsense”
It is Leftist Agenda.
“I’m a white Australian. I know that blaming myself and my cohort is illogical, but I can’t escape the feeling that all of white Australia is implicated in the deaths—a white majority that has fomented and let foment hate.”
False Leftist Agenda projection.
The dumb bimbo even “knows” her nonsense is illogical….. You know progressive indoctrination has succeeded, when the drones cheer, even for nonsense they deep down know is dead wrong.
I think it’s actually best to blame humanity as a whole for this sort of nonsense.
I mean if we are going to go wide, let’s just encompass the whole thing right? It’s also a much simpler and probably more realistic argument. I’m not sure blame is the right word though.
There are ways to prevent things like this, and those ideas sound great right up to the moment they are implemented and then regret sinks in. The systems that form our foundation are the best we’ve come up with yet. We innovate on top of that foundation yet most innovation is rehashing of old ideas by the young who don’t know better, or new ideas that will fail because we aren’t all seeing.
Situations like this are going to continue to happen, as they always have. Blame specific groups at your own peril. All that does is keep the tribalism game going and promotes this sort of behavior.
Keep it up Mish, you’re entering Zero Hedge territory, with comments full of racial slurs and white supremacists.
Thank you for making me chuckle this morning.
This is part of what I’m guessing is called shame-based social media/populism movement, originated somewhere around the same time as the SJW tagline.
In the end, it’s just the prejudice that we are supposed to fight against that’s deployed against us (I refer to myself as a white male) because… Because it actually never ends.
Whenever a Muslim commits a similar act of terror, the media quickly points out that not all Muslims are to blame. The vast majority are peaceful. I agree.
This is a similar line of thinking that whites should pay reparations to blacks for slavery. The way to fight racism is to impose rampant racism on those who commit racism.
Wasn’t there an episode of Star Trek TNG where all the heads in starfleet were overtaken by an alien brain parasite?? Why does this behavior seem so similar?
LOL. Pretty soon, we’ll have to eat organic worms raised in a sustainable manner in front of the others to not arouse suspicion.
Scratch Australia as a place to visit.
Atlas Shrugged is looking more like a documentary every day. Maybe this is all the prequel.
How about a law that says it’s illegal to hurt someone feelings?
Yes, particularly in people’s marriages. To be monitored by the Supreme Court on penalty of corporal punishments by the partner.
As long as ambulance chasing dregs, benefit from that avenue to avail themselves of the rewards of others’ work, that is what progressive hellholes like ours will get more of.
The writer outdoes herself with moral grandstanding. If she really does feel personally responsible in any way because she is white, she needs to see a good therapist immediately.
Bravo Mish, you have now caught up with one of the hottest trends of “current year” – hating whitey. This trend has been hot for a few years and is one of the reasons why Trump was elected (and why some of his former fans now consider him a failure).
Salon had another article today claiming that there is a “global threat of white hate”. And there have been plenty more like that over the past few years.
Unfortunately, you can’t use arguments or logic with these people. They have an agenda and reasonable arguments don’t matter. No amount of logic, inventions, charity or appeasement will help when you are confronted with people who hate you and want you gone.
The hell with her. She’s attempting to implicate all white ‘Australians’ ?? Did they all swim across the Tasman Sea to perpetrate the attack in New Zealand?? Sheesh….what an idiot.
Hmm…this is why I so seldom (if now ever) trust the media. She picks the parts that fit the narrative that she wants about right-wing and white supremacy, while leaving ignored the more left leaning parts of the shooter’s manifesto.
About 50% of Nazis and Fascists manifestos would be something that the left would love. One hint, both movements called themselves ‘anti-capitalist’.
If you are for a government larger and more intrusive than Washington’s, you’re no better than any other commie, by US standards. Europe is a bit different, as to them “conservatism” / “the right” has always been more about preserving the privileges, and supposed orderliness, of the Ancien Regime, than about liberty.