{"id":12429,"date":"2020-06-19T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12429"},"modified":"2020-06-17T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T19:48:32","slug":"class-not-race-divides-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/class-not-race-divides-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Class, Not Race, Divides America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In truth, the clingers, the deplorables, the irredeemables, and Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cdregs\u201d have very little in common with those who so libel them, but superficially share supposedly omnipotent and similar skin color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past, we saw such tensions among so-called whites in CNN\u2019s reporting of the allegedly toothless rubes at Trump rallies, in the Strzok-Page text trove about Walmart\u2019s smelly patrons, in the callous coastal disregard for the five-decade wasting away of the American industrial heartland, in the permissible elite collective disparagement of Christian evangelicals, and in the anthropological curiosity about and condescension toward such exotic, but presumably backward, Duck Dynasty and NASCAR peoples.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, we have reached the surreal point at which the nation\u2019s privileged whites on campuses such as Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, in the top echelon of politics, and the corporate and entertainment worlds, all deplore in the abstract something they call \u201cwhite privilege\u201d in others who have never really experienced it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, whatever such a thing is,&nbsp;<em>they<\/em>&nbsp;possess it in abundance but give no hint they have any intention of giving it up other than rhetorically or through the medieval concept of hair-shirt penance and Twitter confessionals. On the other hand, they are furious that middle-class whites do not join their theatrics of bending the knee and offering abject apologies for original sins.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/06\/14\/class-not-race-divides-america\/\">Read the full article here  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. In truth, the clingers, the deplorables, the irredeemables, and Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cdregs\u201d [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3et","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11269,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-strange-career-of-white-privilege\/","url_meta":{"origin":12429,"position":0},"title":"The Strange Career of White Privilege","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Rich whites invent minority pedigrees to gain advantage while they condemn poor and working-class rural whites as racist. 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