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A Manifesto from the Privileged White Guys Who Are Disgusted With the Angry, Privileged, and Not Too Subtly Racist White Guys


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A Manifesto from the Privileged White Guys Who Are Disgusted With the Angry, Privileged, and Not Too Subtly Racist White Guys:

You’re Right, Fellas. It’s Curtains for White Privilege. And Not a Moment Too Soon
by Chalmers Lattimore

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The show is over, the stage door is open, and we are waiting politely for you to pick up your things, turn off the lights, and leave. That’s right, that longest of all running shows, the one that you performed for most of the post-war period, the one in which you fought any attempt to advantage anyone else lest you lose even the slightest perk, is closing. But please don’t direct your rage at those who will now receive the most basic health care equity at your expense. The people you should blame are some of your fellow affluent white males – guys like me — who have watched in disgust as you took and took and took and, in the name of self-reliance, opposed anyone else getting anything you scorned as a “handout. ” That’s right: we watched and took notes when you opposed such luxuries as school breakfast programs and prescription drugs for poor seniors.

You’ll probably find this improbable, but we have been waiting since high school for this moment. Remember those brainy, slightly awkward, ambitious kids who never seemed to get into the ”High School Musical” version of life you inhabited? Well, while we didn’t really feel like keeping in touch with you, you might like to know that we actually were in medical school, law school, and grad school getting MDs and PhDs. And later, some of us (not the PhDs!) were making the real money while you were taking the Carlton Sheets “buying real estate with no down payment” course. A few of us, while you were lost in your own gospel of selfishness, even learned enough about law, economics and poverty to realize that our own country was virtually epidemic with hunger and homelessness.

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Cross our hearts: We really will understand if you don’t go gently. In fact, if you can’t leave the stage without a little acting out, go for it. Snap some towels, treat a few gardeners and housekeepers and waiters with arrogance. In fact, tell as many jokes ridiculing gay people and minorities as you can remember. Let those ethnic epithets fly. It’ll feel good.

Just know that the list of white male privileges in your nightstand, the one that includes the item promising that “no terrified politician will ever dare mention the word “tax” in your presence,” is being ( how to put this politely?) edited.

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Sorry.

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