The Mirror learned a new word this week, “White Adjacent”:
(n.) A person who is technically a minority, but has access to, utilizes and sometimes benefits from white privilege. This is usually accomplished by said person distancing themselves from the socio political problems their ethnic group commonly faces. Usually by considering considering themselves better than their minority counterparts sharing their same ethnic heritage. This can also be a person who thinks they are are better than other minorities possessing a darker complexion.
Example: Tina, who is Latina, believes that immigrants are a drain the economy because they take jobs away from real, honest Americans. Tina is also, not percieved to be Latina by mainstream America because of her blond hair, light skin and blue eyes. Lisa reaps the benefits of white privilege. Lisa makes not effort to correct her co-workers who refer to her as white. Lisa, is white adjacent.
Asians and Iberian Latinos- watch out. The Left’s Social Justice Warriors are coming for you!
Asians are going to be called white adjacent because they’re adjacent on IQ distribution. I mean. Because they benefit from the oppressive institutional racism of America. The Indian guys do. Total white privilege.
When new categories like white adjacent are created ya know it’s to point out some racist this or that. I’m totally sure it’s our 1619 slavery based Constitution and its legacy that allowed first generation Korean kids to kick all the white kids asses on test scores.
However, a Federal Judge ruled this week that it is perfectly fine to discriminate against Asian-American students.
From the NY Times – “Harvard consistently rated Asian-American applicants lower than others on traits like “positive personality,” likability, courage, kindness and being “widely respected,” according to an analysis of more than 160,000 student records filed Friday by a group representing Asian-American students in a lawsuit against the university. Asian-Americans scored higher than applicants of any other racial or ethnic group on admissions measures like test scores, grades and extracurricular activities, according to the analysis commissioned by a group that opposes all race-based admissions criteria. But the students’ personal ratings significantly dragged down their chances of being admitted, the analysis found.”
In Latin America there is a huge difference between a “peninsulare”(someone from Spain or Portugal) and indigenous folks from the Andes for example. All were previously Latino. Now the Spanish will be “white adjacent”.
Malcolm X warned people of this. Its covert racism:
“The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.”
— Malcolm X, Speech, Dec. 1, 1963, New York City.
X suggested that if the African American community really wanted to leave slavery they wouldn’t need to stop relying on white institutions and collectives.
As the world turns, more and more people will find themselves outside of the ever tightening cordon around the truest oppressed. Eventually everyone will all be tagged as oppressors of one last infinitely oppressed inter-sectional idol.
I’m glad no one is commenting on this post. It’s simply something that is truly beneath all of us. I don’t see how discussing this very negative side of racism can promote anything good. I know it exists. I find the best treatment for such stupidity is to turn my back on it and ignore it. I don’t promote it in any way. I don’t wish for it to ever see the light of day. I do however grab it by the throat if it rears it’s stupid ugly face in any way when I am around.
Note: These stories propagate to other platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. There have been several comments on the issue there.
The only place i see a definition of it is urban dictionary. Not one serious academic piece using the term.
Enough said.
Note: Oh yeah, like you read serious academic pieces.
Asian countries for Asians.
Black countries for Blacks.
but White countries for everybody?
That’s genocide.
Anti-racist is a code-word for Anti-White
Is US a white country?
Yes, without them, we would never have formed The United States of America. We are not a nation of immigrants, as over 75% of the soldiers that won our independence from England were born in this country.
Blacks vs. Whites in a nutshell.
Whites are only 10% of the world’s population, yet are the most industrious, ingenious, and innovative race the world has known. Whites have formed nations, built civilizations, assumed and administrated power, created the Renaissance, the Age of Discovery, the Industrial Revolution, automation, technology, the space program which landed men on the moon and launched probes exploring beyond the solar system, discovered electricity, created wonder drugs and architecture and have harnessed nuclear power, have unlocked the secrets of DNA and relativity, created computer science and the internet age…… sub-Saharan Africans still cannot even feed themselves.
No pre-contact sub-Saharan African society ever created a written language, or weaved cloth, or forged steel, invented the wheel or plow, or devised a calendar, or code of laws, or any social organization, or formal religion. or system of measurement, or math, or built a multi-story structure or bridge or sewer, or infrastructure of any kind, and they never harnessed a river, or even drilled well or irrigated, or built a road or railway or sea-worthy vessel, they never domesticated animals, or exploited underground natural resources, or produced anything that could be considered a mechanical device.
Blacks are the only race incapable of caring for themselves. Whites still have to provide food, medical, financial and engineering aid to Africans. They couldn’t survive without White charity. Blacks became an out-of-control invasive species after Whites domesticated them.
Blacks lived alone in sub-Saharan Africa, a vast continent with temperate climates and abundant resources for 60,000 years; so they cannot blame racism, poverty, imperialism or anything else for their failures. How could they live with all that shoreline and never contemplate putting a sail on a ship like every other culture did?
Blacks are the oldest race, they had a huge head-start so they should be the most advanced race; but they are the least advanced race. And in fact they never did develop until they were domesticated by Whites.
19 of the 20 poorest countries are sub-Saharan African (Haiti). There has never been a successful Black country. No modern creations or civilization exists in sub-Saharan Africa that was not brought there by Whites.
There are no White Third-World nations, but all Black ones are.
Put Whites on an island and you get England; put Asians on an island and you get Japan; put Blacks on an island and you get Haiti.
Nowhere Blacks live are they considered achievers. In fact they are universally viewed as unproductive and disruptive to society.
Simply put, life is an IQ test.
I really appreciated the detail of your comment. It is disturbing what is happening to our country when people want to selectively and conveniently ignore facts and start history at points convenient to their narrative. We all have a short time to live in a limited life span and our children all deserve a level playing field–not a CRT adjusted one. Thank you for your thoughtful presentation. If you have other writings, I would be interested.