The “Whiteness” Double Standard

The Left would like to portray white culture as a force of oppression—and deny its existence in any other context.

To my recurring frustration, much of modern politics can be reduced to a series of language games. Political fights rarely touch the substance of the disagreement, but instead hover on the thin layer of language that merely refers to the substance—or all too often, conceals it from view.

In the modern era, the Left’s coalition of liberals, progressives, …