![]() ![]() It has birthed the technological advances that have made modern life so relatively carefree and comfortable-such that, in the West, our “poor” now live better and longer than royalty of times past. Western culture, though imperfect, has produced a wealth of great ideas: that all people are created equal, that we are endowed by our Creator with natural rights, that truth exists and is discoverable, that we must love our neighbors as ourselves. Its central tenet is that, through their own efforts, people can rise above their circumstances. It privileges reason over emotion and the individual over the state. What we call “Western culture” is essentially the marriage of Judeo-Christian morality with classical (that is, Greek and Roman) intellectualism. Leftists try to get around this inconvenient truth by simply declaring Western culture itself “white supremacist.” That characterization is false. According to the Heartland Institute’s Julie Kelly, FBI data simply “does not support accusation” that “white supremacy” or “white nationalism” is a widespread problem. Unfortunately for leftists, actual white supremacists are pretty scarce on the ground. extract the knowledge, the expertise, the wisdom from racially and ethnically minoritized communities.” For “extract,” read “steal.” Then there was the professor from the University of Illinois Chicago who earlier this year insisted that scholars “have perpetuated white supremacy…. In fact, according to the CDC, whites are only slightly less likely to have a disability than blacks and more likely than Hispanics or Asians. Campus Reform reported last November on a Penn State professor who blamed “white supremacy” for alleged workplace discrimination against people with disabilities. Such over-the-top rhetoric is common in academia. Nevertheless, “White supremacy” has now become the Left’s go-to boogeyman, responsible for all the nation’s ills-our “most dangerous terror threat,” as President Biden recently told graduates at Howard University. No one hates their political opponents or revels in their own imagined superiority like leftists. More and more, people are coming to understand that if everything is racist, nothing is racist.Įnter “white supremacy,” which ratchets up the abuse by a) falsely attributing racist attitudes solely to white people and b) implying that white people don’t just hate everyone else, they think they’re somehow superior. Jenkins' opinions are his own and do not represent those of his employer.įor decades, leftists have described anyone and anything they don’t like as “racist.” But maybe they’ve cried wolf a little too often the word seems to be losing its pejorative power. In a career spanning more than three decades at five different institutions, he has served as a head men’s basketball coach, an athletic director, a department chair, and an academic dean, as well as a faculty member. Rob Jenkins is a Higher Education Fellow with Campus Reform and a tenured associate professor of English at Georgia State University - Perimeter College. ![]()
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