{"id":201580,"date":"2020-01-29T07:02:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201580"},"modified":"2020-02-01T06:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T06:42:48","slug":"the-marginalization-of-white-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201580","title":{"rendered":"The Marginalization of White People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org Jan 28, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

This morning (Januay 27, 2020) on NPR I heard a white female novelist describe her difficulty in getting her novel published.\u00a0 The problem was not that her novel was uninteresting or badly written.\u00a0 Her problem was that one of the characters was black. Unbeknownst to her, it is now considered cultural imperialism or cultural trespassing\u2014some such term\u2014for a person with white skin to write about even fictional people of color.<\/span><\/p>\n

Publishers liked her novel, but were afraid to publish it. They told the novelist that publishing her book would bring them charges of insensitivity toward blacks and be regarded as a sign of their disrespect of the maxim that only blacks can know about blacks. Her problem was not that she was writing insensitively about blacks, but that it is now considered insensitive for a white person to invade black culture by having a black character in a novel.<\/span><\/p>\n

The novelist seemed to agree with this perspective.\u00a0 Her defense was that as she had lived with a black man for many years, she was familiar with blacks and thereby qualified to have a black character in her novel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another woman on the program said that the way publishers are dealing with this new problem is to send the manuscript to a \u201csensitivity checker\u201d who can make suggestions that if implemented gives the book a \u201csensitivity approval.\u201d\u00a0 She did say that even with this safeguard, the subjective nature of what is considered insensitive can still rise up and bite the publisher.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking about this new constraint on the creativity of white writers, I realized that little of the great literature that we have could have been written under this rule.\u00a0 For example, Shakespeare could not have written Othello.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

One wonders if this is a two-way street.\u00a0 Are black writers banned from having white characters in their novels?\u00a0 Would this also be cultural intrusion, trespassing or imperialism? Probably not. This seems to be yet another offense of which only white people can be guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n

The program brought to mind what I had recently read about white professors and administrators at Cambridge University in England being assigned a person of color as their monitor to make certain that language, lectures, reading lists, and university policies did not offend a sensitive student of color.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report did not say whether black professors and administrators at Cambridge have white monitors to prevent blacks from calling whites \u201cracist,\u201d \u201cwhite supremacists,\u201d and so on.\u00a0 If so, there will be big changes in \u201cblack studies\u201d programs.<\/span><\/p>\n

All of the constraints seem to be for whites only.\u00a0 They alone are marginalized and have their voices muzzled and creativity limited.<\/span><\/p>\n

One assumes that feminists will want to get in on this and that this road also will be a one-way street.\u00a0 It will be gender imperialism or gender trespassing for male novelists to have female characters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as whites are not blacks and cannot be trusted to write about blacks, men are not women and can\u2019t be trusted to write about women.<\/span><\/p>\n

University faculties punish whites for \u201cinsensitivity\u201d toward people of color and punish white heterosexual males for \u201cinsensitivity\u201d toward females. This happens whether the insensitivity was intended or simply in the mind of the offended. These same faculties host \u201cwomen\u2019s studies\u201d and \u201cblack studies\u201d in which white people are routinely described as \u201cracist\u201d and white heterosexual males as misogynists and rapists. I assume there are now \u201ctransgender studies\u201d which has its own epithets to throw.\u00a0 What we are experiencing is the marginalization of the majority by minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

What will be the result of giving protective status to the violent language of anti-white, anti-male minorities while muzzling the majority?\u00a0 Why is there no public discussion of this dangerous fomenting of social disunity?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul Craig Roberts looks at yet another offense of which only white people can be guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201582,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201580\/revisions\/201582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}