Category Archives: Implicit Whiteness
Implicitly White themes in “The Hobbit”
The Hobbit is a bit long, and some of the scenes could have been edited down. But I am not really complaining. It held my interest. The only thing is that it has a sort of “one thing after another for no good reason” feel—the result of a lot of padding needed to make [...]
Those Awful 1950s
The Product Pleasantville is a 1998 film directed by Gary Ross (Big, The Hunger Games) and produced by him, Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotapes, Contagion), Jon Kilik, and Bob Degus. High school siblings David (Tobey Maguire) and Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) have diametrically opposite social lives. Jennifer is superficial and extroverted; David is shy and [...]
What’s up with Alex Jones?
How fortuitous. Just the other day I had resolved to write about radio show host Alex Jones on this blog. He’s the hyper-provocative host of Infowars.com/PrisonPlanet. I’ve only recently begun listening to his broadcasts and am stunned at what he’s getting away with. Because I respect the background knowledge that so many TOO readers have [...]
Policing the Media: National Review Fires John Derbyshire
Peter Brimelow has a wonderful article at VDARE.com, mentioning John Derbyshire’s firing from National Review and noting that in the last few years, an astonishingly long list of MSM journalists have been eliminated because they challenge, or are thought to be about to challenge, the MSM’s Leftwing consensus—for example, Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, Pat Buchanan. [...]
The Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman Affair: Enter the SPLC (and CSULB) Thought Police
Mark Potok of the SPLC apparently thinks that my comments on the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman affair present an opportunity to at last get me fired from my position at CSULB (“Anti-Semitic California Prof Now Attacking Black People with Lies“). (Good grief! What a title! Potok could have written headlines for The Daily Worker.) This latest [...]
Lee Siegel: The Horror of Implicit Whiteness
At TOO we often use the phrase “hostile elite” to describe our new, predominantly Jewish elite that has become ensconced in all the media high ground in America. Examples are legion, but it is hard to imagine a more blatant recent example of fear and loathing of White America than Lee Siegel’s “What’s race got [...]
The Empire Attacks Ron Paul
The Iowa vote is fast approaching, and with a possibility that Ron Paul could come out on top, the media is in full-fledged attack mode. Following pieces in The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, and the LA Times (pop quiz: What do these media outlets have in common?), the New York Times chimes in with [...]
Jamie Kelso at CPAC: Rights versus Interests
Jamie Kelso’s experience at CPAC, on video here, shows how far we are from changing the rhetoric about race and immigration. CPAC is sponsored by the American Conservative Union which claims it “represents the views of Americans who are concerned with economic growth through lower taxes and reduced government spending and the issues of liberty, personal [...]
More evidence for the racialization of American politics
Some recent results of the November election amplify the theme of racialization of American politics that has been a theme at TOO for some time (e.g., here). Ron Brownstein’s “White Flight” has some familiar themes. 60% of Whites voted Republican (actually higher because the 60% includes Jews and Middle Easterners classified as White but who identify with [...]
Racial Conflict and the Health Care Bill
Of all the op-ed writers in the MSM these days, Ronald Brownstein seems most aware of the emerging racial fault lines in American politics — which means that his work has been a rich lode of material for my blog (see The looming racial chasm and Further Evidence for the Racial Polarization of American Politics). [...]
Christopher Donovan: Attention, NRA Members: It Isn't Just 'Liberals' Out For Your Guns
Christopher Donovan: I receive “American Hunter”, a monthly publication of the NRA (along with “American Rifleman”, which is much of the same editorial material). Its political writer is one Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA’s lobbying arm. Cox does a pretty thorough job of reporting the details of anti-gun efforts in the United [...]
Race Bias and Conception Risk: Implicit and Explicit Whiteness in Action
A recent article in a top psychology journal (“Race Bias Tracks Conception Risk Across the Menstrual Cycle” shows that women have more race bias when they are most at risk for conception. Further, it shows that race bias is even stronger if the woman feels more vulnerable to sexual coercion. The study once again shows [...]
Further Evidence for the Racial Polarization of American Politics
Recent election trends clearly indicate an increasing White disenchantment with the Democrats, especially among the working class. The enraged Whites who are expressing themselves in the tax revolts, tea parties, and town hall meetings of 2009 are middle- and lower-middle class. Ronald Brownstein points out that their incomes have been stagnating or declining for years, [...]
Implicit Whiteness in Scott Brown’s campaign
The day before the election I happened to catch Keith Olbmermann at his smirking best — looking intensely into the camera and declaring that Scott Brown and all the people voting for him are racists. What’s the evidence for this? You see, Brown used a pick-up truck in his commercials. (Gasp!!) You know, pick-up trucks are pretty [...]
Stephen Pollard on the English Defense League
Richard Hoste’s current TOO article on right-wing culturism reminds us once again that race and ethnicity are the true bogeymen of political discourse in the West. Stephen Pollard’s statement is particularly striking: “Mainstream Islam … is no more of a threat to Western society than the Quakers.” This is nothing more than a gratuitous wave-of-the-hand gesture [...]
Facing the Future as a Minority
