“Discussions about race are often
perceived as being only open to people
of color, but I think it is just as important for white people to
partake in conversations about
race. No matter how accepting someone is, that doesn’t stop
them from being part of a system based on centuries of
inequality.” – Aileen Ida, president of the College
Democrats, Elizabethtown College
In 2017, how else can adolescent angst
be expressed except to tilt at imaginary windmills? Is Aileen Ida
simply ignorant of this American age of near universal
acceptance of differences? Indeed, concrete evidence is obvious
everywhere. Until last month, did she miss the fact that a black
man has been president for the last eight years? How about our
tolerance for the new institution of gay
marriage? Why the public self-flagellation by students at
Elizabethtown College, a small liberal arts school in lily-white
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania?
Beyond their ivied walls, these
safe-spacers
can't cope with the new reality of Trump's
America. After all, their party, the
Democrats, are in political
purgatory: backbenchers in government,
exposed as a regional party in urban
centers on both coasts that don't include them! Thus, they wear
cultist
lapel pins—shaped like plain white puzzle pieces—to demonstrate
they “don't fit in anywhere”.
Naturally, they don't comprehend the
true
meaning of their symbolism. They frame their attention-grabbing
antics as some kind of wacky multigenerational genetic
guilt. Perhaps some of their ancestors were slaveholders,
but if so, so what? It's a safe bet these computer savvy
know-nothings
haven't checked on ancestry.com. Thus, they self-shame by pretending
to be distant offspring of theoretical 19th century white
oppressors? No wonder they're progressives; that's dopey
thinking of the highest order! A modern riff on thought-crime
from George Orwell's totalitarian classic “1984”.
Oh, how these young Democrats yearn for
Hester Prynne's America of 1850. When slavery, oppression and
bigotry were real! At least when the fictional Ms. Prynne wore her
Scarlet Letter, she
was guilty of adultery. However, these “cultural
warriors”—these champions of convoluted fairness—have very
little to legitimately object to. So, the witless and coddled
define themselves by false projection and historical
misappropriation. A twisted millennial fantasy of a white
bogeyman, seen exclusively in their dormitory mirrors.
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