WHITE GUILT NEVER HELPED ANYONE
An extreme expression of this kind of narcissistic white guilt can be found in the journal Race Traitor, edited by academic Noel Ignatiev: …‘Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.’
Underlying this weird statement is the argument that white people are privileged. But that argument is based on a semantic confusion. It is not a privilege to be white, and not any kind of privilege to enjoy the ordinary rights of citizens in Britain or America. These are things that we all deserve as our right. Where those rights are denied to others on racial grounds, that is an attack on us all that ought to be challenged. But it is a mistake to think that the white population as a whole gains from discrimination against minorities. On the contrary, those divisions and exclusions work against the rights that all of us ought to enjoy.
