Our Culture Celebrates Racism against Whites

From a federal appeals court opinion by judge James C. Ho:

Our culture today increasingly accepts (if not celebrates) racism against whites.

Law professors teach that “angry white people” are “fearful of racial diversity,” and that “white evangelicals” in particular are “waging war on democracy.” Rena Steinzor, American Apocalypse 1, 10 (2024).

University students are told that there is a “cost of talking to white people ... the cost of your own life, as they suck you dry,” and that “[t]here are no good apples out there.” Michael Levenson, A Psychiatrist Invited to Yale Spoke of Fantasies of Shooting White People, N.Y. Times, June 6, 2021. As one university lecturer put it, “[w]hite people make my blood boil.” Id.

Writers and journalists proclaim that “‘White America’is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, Letter to My Son, The Atlantic, July 4, 2015. “White identity is inherently racist,” and “white people do not exist outside the system of white supremacy.” Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility 149 (2018). “Racist ideas make [w]hite people think more of themselves, which further attracts them to racist ideas.” Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Anti-Racist 6 (2019). “[T]he white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world.” Jordan Boyd, In Racist Screed, NYT’s 1619 Project Founder Calls ‘White Race’ ‘Barbaric Devils,’ ‘Bloodsuckers,’ Columbus ‘No Different Than Hitler’, The Federalist, June 25, 2020. See also Christopher F. Rufo, America’s Cultural Revolution (2023) (government agencies and corporations teach that “all white people” are racist and America is a “white supremacy system”); Heather Mac Donald, When Race Trumps Merit (2023); Barton Swaim, How ‘Antiracism’ Becomes Antisemitism, Wall St. J., Dec. 29, 2023; Jeremy Carl, The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart (2024).

So it’s not surprising that more institutions increasingly believe that they have cultural permission to tolerate (if not encourage) racism against whites, under the guise of promoting diversity. Racism is now edgy and exciting—so long as it’s against whites.

This is the world we live in today. The case involved a White male Trump-supporter student who was bullied in high school. He lost 9-9 on appeal because political views are not protected, and blaming Whites is just conventional wisdom.