{"id":11269,"date":"2018-07-10T20:16:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T03:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11269"},"modified":"2018-07-10T20:16:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T03:16:27","slug":"the-strange-career-of-white-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-strange-career-of-white-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Career of White Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Rich whites invent minority pedigrees to gain advantage while they condemn poor and working-class rural whites as racist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">Y<\/span>ou hear the phrase \u201cwhite privilege\u201d nonstop in America these days, as the slogan has transcended the campus and entered popular culture.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, the term apparently refers to the original European settlers who came to the United States and later equated the protections of the U.S. Constitution solely with their own majority ethnicity and race \u2014 a tribal and chauvinistic mindset that still governs politics and immigration the world over, from China and Japan to most African and South American countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/07\/strange-career-of-white-privilege\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Rich whites invent minority pedigrees to gain advantage while they condemn poor and working-class rural whites as racist. You hear the phrase \u201cwhite privilege\u201d nonstop in America these days, as the slogan has transcended the campus and entered popular culture. Historically, the term apparently refers to the original European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1152,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2VL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12429,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/class-not-race-divides-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":11269,"position":0},"title":"Class, Not Race, Divides America","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Nothing is stranger in these tense days than the monotony of the inexact and non-descriptive mantra of \u201cwhite privilege\u201d and \u201cwhite solidarity\u201d\u2014as if there is some monolithic white bloc, or as if class matters not at all. 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