Contrary to what the media-left narrative would have us believe, racism is all-but dead in the West. Surveys repeatedly show that racist sentiments have declined to the point of almost non-existence.
Almost.
Because, sadly, there’s one persistent and systemic racism that just refuses to die in the West. If anything, it grows by the year.
There are compelling reasons for white men to believe that bias against them is increasing.
Not least is that expressing explicit disdain for ‘white men’ will never be punished by the overlords of social media. Indeed, in an interesting social experiment, Candace Owens copied a tweet railing against “white men”, but substituted “Jews”. Her tweet was promptly banned.
No wonder that Julie Bindel argues that the white working class is the only group that the left is happy to vilify.
The ruling elites have declared war on white working-class men. As white males, they must struggle to overcome institutional and government discrimination. Affirmative-action policies involve profound questions related to matters of social equality and fairness, including the problem of whether it is ever justifiable or permissible ‘to submerge individuals into whole groups and subject them to certain prophylactic politics which often harm their interests’.
The great conservative leader Robert Menzies was adamant that “It is outmoded and absurd to treat a woman’s sex as a… disqualification; it seems to me equally absurd to claim it as a qualification in itself.” Yet, such an absurdity is where we find ourselves, today. The Labor party and increasingly the Liberals demand gender quotas: that is, a woman’s sex is a qualification in itself.
It’s not just sex that’s become a qualification in itself: so has race. In the US, Ivy League colleges explicitly punish white, Jewish and Asian students, in favour of blacks.
Everywhere in the West, the results of this systemic racial and gender discrimination are evident.
For example, a comprehensive US study reveals that white boys are increasingly performing at a level substantially below that of girls of the same age and ethnic group […]
In the United Kingdom, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) – an independent statutory body established by the British government to help eliminate discrimination and protect human rights – has revealed that white boys from poorer backgrounds, ‘suffer the worst start in life as they continue to fall further behind every other ethnic group at school – with their chances of a successful and prosperous career decreasing as a result’.
The disadvantages of being a white male in today’s British society continue to be substantial by the time these boys complete high school. The statistics unveiled in December 2015 by Universities and College Admissions Service (UCAS), the UK-based organisation that operates the application process for British universities, indicates that 18-year-old females are 35 per cent more likely to attend a British university than 18-year-old males.
Further, where 37 per cent of black school-leavers go to university, only 28 per cent of white school-leavers do. Curiously, ‘the white ethnic group was the one least likely to enter university.
The discrimination against white males is so undeniable that even government organisations dominated by women, and female law officers, can’t help but notice.
An employment tribunal confirmed in April last year that “well prepared” white male heterosexuals have been discriminated against by the UK police force. Judge Clare Grundy found the police guilty of discrimination against a potential recruit on the grounds of race and sexual orientation after his application to join was unsuccessful […] After the verdict confirmed that the plaintiff had been a victim of direct discrimination […]
[W]hite men in America are more likely to face discrimination when applying for jobs than women, according to a US study of 3,000 job applicants.
This systemic racism and sexism against white men has far more catastrophic outcomes than boys failing school.
White males have a suicide rate which is much higher than those for any other gender-ethnic group. Unlike every other age, and unlike every other racial and ethnic group, death rates amongst white males are the highest in the world, and have been rising dramatically over the last few decades […]
[R]enowned Princeton academics noted that “middle-age whites were committing suicide at an unprecedented rate and that all-cause mortality in this group was rising”. By contrast, the death rate for blacks and Hispanics in the United States declined over the period 1999 to 2010. By contrast, the suicide rate for middle-aged whites has jumped to an alarming 40 per cent during the same time frame.
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And the response of the left-media? Crickets. The same media-political left who shriek that one woman dies every week in Australia, completely fail to mention the 42 men who die every week.
To add insult to injury, the racist-sexist elite lecture white men endlessly about their so-called “privilege”. Reading the grim statistics of white masculinity, this “privilege” begins to look indistinguishable from systemic racism.
