| Commentary |
| Pride for All, Except the Whites |
| No one could have predicted this five years ago, but Elon Musk’s Twitter account has become one of the internet’s most honest news sources. One post caught our eye over the weekend. “This is unfair,” Musk plainly wrote above screenshots of Wikipedia’s descriptions of black pride, gay pride, Asian pride, and white pride. The site’s updated definitions, as of this newsletter’s release, are below. Emphasis is ours. Black pride: a movement that encourages black people to celebrate their respective cultures and embrace their African heritage. Gay pride: the promotion of the rights, self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people as a social group. Asian pride: a term that encourages celebration of Asian ethnicity and culture, with various interpretations and origins. White pride: an expression primarily used by white nationalist, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist organizations in order to signal racist or racialist viewpoints. One stands out, does it not? Why does Wikipedia describe pride for blacks, Asians, and gays in glowing terms like “celebration,” dignity,” and “self-affirmation,” but stomp on whites who have pride in their heritage as “racist or racialist”? If equality were really the goal, wouldn’t everyone be allowed to feel proud of who they are? Yes, they would. And they should. Have white people done bad things throughout history? Of course. But so have people of every race. If every population received scorn for its ancestors’ misdeeds, the entire world would be in a constant state of shame. We don’t live that way because it would be insane. So why must whites? No matter what Wikipedia says, they shouldn’t. Instead, we prefer JD Vance’s message at AmericaFest. “We don’t treat anybody different because of their race or their sex,” the vice president told the crowd. “So we have relegated DEI to the dustbin of history, which is exactly where it belongs… In the United States of America, you don’t have to apologize for being white anymore.” There is no blood guilt. We’re all Americans. That’s supposed to be how this country operates. Hopefully, we’re moving in the right direction. |
John Barleycorn 