White = Racist

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."

Why are the SJWs and the cancel culture going after “Turkey in the Straw” and the ice cream trucks? After all, the charge of racism levelled against “Turkey in the Straw” could be levelled as easily against about any possible person or cultural artifact: that it was used by someone who knew someone who was racist.

I struggled to entertain the idea that the censors were good-hearted but mistaken: that they might, like Rousseau, think people were born good and loving, and that bad things came from civilization and culture. So they were foolishly trying to get us all back to an Alpha point, with none of that awful history to burden us.

But bad as that would already be, I immediately I realize the reality is worse. The SJWs and cancel culture actually insist on the significance of history at least as often as they repudiate it. The whole premise behind “white privilege” is that any white person born today is benefitting from what people of the same skin colour did long ago; and that every black person is born disadvantaged by the past. Forgetting the past and starting over on a basis of equality is simply not on offer.

In other words, it is not that the modern left wants to end racism. It is that they want racism. “Turkey in the Straw” is a target not because it is racist, but because it is a significant cultural accomplishment, a memorable tune, and it was composed by pale-skinned people. Being white is what is “racist.”