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#465 - Douglas Murray - The Wild Hatred Of The West

Modern Wisdom

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I Find the Attempt to Make Writers Responsible for Their Readers to Be Essentially Unfair

i'm not proud of being white because i didn't do anything, writes Imeno Jordan. The idea that people should feel pride in their skin color is 'as absurd as all the other claims that you should feel pride about innate characteristics', he says. I don't tell people that being white is better than being black, ase i don't think it is. If you believe in pride, you bellieve in shame. Why would you be proud of being gay? Just ca o life and shut up. In any case, what actual racists and white supremacis still exist - there's a tiny, tiny er er way out their fringe. And they don't like me anyway.

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