The White Man’s Affliction: Stockholm Syndrome? Battle Fatigue? What to Do?

By An Old Friend

People ask why, as a Latino, do I hammer white guilt among liberals and conservatives. Hayes' tweet is illustrative: the modern white psyche conditioned to worship nonwhites in a religious psychosexual ethnomasochism 1/ https://t.co/HZG9kzcfTh

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

Our politics, Republican and Democrat, are dominated by the accompanying neurosis and narcissism of whites suffering from what is basically a mental and spiritual illness. Conservatives aren't immune. They think they are, but they are just as bad 2/

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

It's the reason why conservatives rationalize and justify bringing rappers to the White House, releasing dangerous felons, the Platinum Plan, the American Dream Plan, it's behind the "immigrants do the jobs Americans don't want to do" slogans, it's why conservatives pander 3/

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

Obviously liberals are just as bad, but the point is that it's not specific to either political orientation, it's like a psychic malaise that afflicts white people in either party 4/

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

You know this is true because when you raise this point to whites, whether they are hardcore pro-Trump or pro-Biden, they'll take it as a personal attack that you are opposed to pandering, because you are actually attacking their neurosis, their narcissism 5/

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

For them, the only reason someone would oppose their view is if they are a bad person, a horrible bigot. Notice that conservatives and liberals are equally ready and willing to start throwing around the term "racist" at the drop of a hat 6/

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

A more recent example of the Hayes tweet 7/ https://t.co/kxJ8MU6aoS

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

To be fair, this is the result of nonstop warfare on them. A half century or more of being told you're a bad person because you were born a certain way and your only ticket out of hell is committing yourself fervently to this religion 8/

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

This is, in fact, a mental illness 9/ https://t.co/qbJheicKNH

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

The reason stuff like Hillbilly Elegy gets attacked so viciously is precisely because it doesn't portray my white comprades in a horrible light. "Wait, a movie where hillbillies aren't racist bad guys?" More of that would be good 10/

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

The ultimate irony of this insane cult of antiracism is that is has actually increased polarization, increased Balkanization 10/ [11?]

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

One more reason to think about this: conservatives are dissatisfied with the GOP, some want their own party, which is probably good. But what happens if you just import this mentality to the new party? If the metapolitics of white guilt are not torn out, what's the point? 12/

— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) November 24, 2020

 

N.S.: Note the parallel problem, when White liberals flee places like California, only to carry their liberal habits of mind with them, wherever they go.

Someone needs to develop a form of de-programming.