By Paul Craig Roberts
If you are a white heterosexual able-bodied male (WHAM), you need to understand that affirmative action is not about leveling a playing field. It is about leveling you.
You need to comprehend, also, that you are already pretty much leveled.
Even the most recent immigrant from the Third World arrives in the U.S.
with more legal rights than you or your sons have. As a “person of
color” the immigrant is admitted to universities and job-training
programs on the basis of lower standards than are applied to you. He
has the right to be hired and promoted ahead of you despite lesser
qualifications for the job. He can sue you for discrimination for a
variety of reasons-for example, you don’t want to hire him, make him a
bank loan, or rent him your house. But you cannot sue him for the same
reasons. He can call you names, but you can’t call him names. His
special legal status is growing as politicians pandering to him create
new crimes that only he can suffer and only you can commit. His special
rights are based on skin color. His official designation is “preferred
minority.” He is a member of a new aristocracy with status-based
rights. He is learning to see his preferred legal position as a
race-based entitlement.
You may say, “Baloney! We WHAMs outnumber the minorities. We have all
the power, money and best jobs. These Third World types work in
McDonalds and clean our homes while we pull in the big bucks.” This is,
for the most part, true. For now. But the fact remains that he has
superior legal status to you. It is just a matter of time before he
learns to use his superior legal standing to displace you.
Indeed, you are already a smaller percentage of the population than you
think. Many WHAMs-those in college and university faculties, media,
entertainment, the Democratic Party, public employee unions, the bar
association, the ACLU, and corporate executives-have allied themselves
with preferred minorities. Moreover, these WHAM allies of minorities
live mainly in urban areas where there are large concentrations of
preferred minorities. In the last election, the urban vote in a
relatively few counties matched the vote of the entire rest of the
country and gave Al Gore a chance to steal the presidency.
Homosexual and disabled white males also vote against you. The latter
have achieved preferred status and homosexuals are demanding it.
Feminists have split many white heterosexual women from you. It has
become dangerous for a WHAM to marry. Laws have changed out from under
you. You can be blameless, but your wife can walk away with another
man, your children, half of your property and pension and a good chunk
of your earnings for many years to come. If you resist, your wife may
hit you with child abuse charges. You will not get a fair trial. Police
sex crime units, desperate for cases to justify budgets that feminists
have put in place, will use the charges to send you off to prison.
Oh yeah and of course these ‘people of color’ have had it so easy in the United States for the last 200 years, oh wait, no wait…
This article is so stupid it’s amazing. We’ve had affirmative action for the last 200 odd years, we have had laws in this country that would bar people that were not white and whites always had preferential treatment.
Good riddance to old nonsense.
Blacks underperform in cognitively demanding jobs because of genetic differences in I.Q.
Corey said:
We’ve had affirmative action for the last 200 odd years, we have had laws in this country that would bar people that were not white and whites always had preferential treatment.
Robert’s isn’t saying that White privilege is dying, he is saying that a new form of privilege is being set up. It would be best in America if the government would simply stay out of such matters, and allow each person to make their own way in the world.
The immigrant wave and tolerance of minorities is only happening in white countries. Go to Asia or Africa and talk about tolerance and increasing other-race immigration and they would laugh at you and if you persisted, they would bury you. Only white western countries have been thus afflicted. The white man has to be tolerant of his own destruction. That is not a virtue, that is mental illness and cowardice. Whites can hide in their gated communities and private schools but that’s not going to help the future for their children, who will grow up in a country turning hostile towards anything and everything associated with traditional white culture. Nothing survives that is not aggressively defended. Whites need to learn this and quick.
Corey,
We didn’t have Affirmative Action for 200 years, we simply had a free country. People could hire whomever they wanted. If they didn’t want to hire a fat Negro with diabetes they didn’t have to.
What is remarkable about your muddleheaded response to Robert’s article, is your blatant assumption that the economy – then and now – is an immutable pie to be distributed as equality dictates.
The central element of a national economy is not a printing press making paper currency. Economies are a measure of productivity. For this reason, healthy economies need people performing jobs they are capable of doing well. That is the problem with the Affirmative Action you are cuddling so inanely. Giving people jobs they can’t – and in many cases cannot be compelled – to do well, hurts everybody.
Mmmm… I wonder if we can envision a country with Quotas and Affirmative Action, and massive Negro overrepresentation in federal employment, whose economy has been in decline since those preference policies got started… mmm… howsabout USA.
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