We celebrate the accomplishments of white people every day. This question, and its close relative “What’s wrong with being proud of being white?” sometimes comes from people who sincerely, if oversimplistically, think racial equality should mean identical treatment for all racial identity groups. These are ideas that you will hear from members of the self-described “alt-right” and groups with closely related beliefs: white nationalists and white supremacists.
The “What’s wrong with being proud of being white?” people claim or imply that white people are under threat from nonwhite people. That is a cover to justify white people’s monopoly on wealth, income, property values, prestige power, and other desirable things. So they are deeply invested in inventing a particular understanding of race and a particular understanding of history that supports their narrative of white people under siege.
All of these claims are, quite literally, “white lies.” They are lies told by (some) white people to justify a political project of protecting and empowering white people against nonwhite others.
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We celebrate the accomplishments of white people every day. This question, and its close relative “What’s wrong with being proud of being white?” sometimes comes from people who sincerely, if oversimplistically, think racial equality should mean identical treatment for all racial identity groups. These are ideas that you will hear from members of the self-described “alt-right” and groups with closely related beliefs: white nationalists and white supremacists.
The “What’s wrong with being proud of being white?” people claim or imply that white people are under threat from nonwhite people. That is a cover to justify white people’s monopoly on wealth, income, property values, prestige power, and other desirable things. So they are deeply invested in inventing a particular understanding of race and a particular understanding of history that supports their narrative of white people under siege.
All of these claims are, quite literally, “white lies.” They are lies told by (some) white people to justify a political project of protecting and empowering white people against nonwhite others.